How to use a DOOR! The amazingly patronising guide for civil servants on how to avoid mishaps when entering and leaving rooms
Memo sent to 2,440 people in Department of Energy and Climate Change
Civil servants have been given a safety guide that instructs them how to use doors after a shocking 14 members of staff were hurt walking through them in five years.
A step-by-step memo was sent to 2,440 people at the Department of Energy and Climate Change, run by energy secretary Amber Rudd.
The vital instructions include 'open the door slowly' and if the door has a 'vision panel' look through to 'judge if there's someone on the other side'.
The guide was issued because of the number of accidents staff had experienced in recent years.
However, it has left others raising their eyebrows, with criticism over it being a waste of time and resources.
Jonathan Isaby, of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: 'This is patronising rubbish of the highest order and proof that there remains plenty of fat to trim at Whitehall departments.
'Families facing huge bills because of green taxes this department is responsible for will be appalled to see their money wasted like this.
'Perhaps it's those responsible for producing this 'advice' who should be shown how to use the door.'
HOW TO OPEN OFFICE DOORS AND MORE: A CIVIL SERVANT'S GUIDE
Below are some important pointers from the memo sent to staff at the Department of Energy and Climate change. (You never know, they might come in handy...Once you've finished laughing)
When walking past or working around a closed door always assume the door is going to open.
Use the vision panels, where they are available, to judge if there's someone on the other side.
Many of the doors don't have these vision panels, so please take extra care when using these doors.
Keep hands free of hardware, moving parts, and pinch points, especially when using the entrance pods.
Avoid carrying loads, including laptops and hot drinks, through the doors whenever possible.
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Life imitating piss taking
Life imitating piss taking
A couple of years back I made up a false H&S information sheet on the safe use of our office doors, and posted it up with all the other cretinous useless H&S posters. It took a while for people to realise it was a piss take....
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Re: Life imitating piss taking
Truth is, some folks needed reminders.
15 years ago I worked at an office that had a keycode entry box on the door so you could unlock it. The keycode box was installed ON the door, above the handle.
The doors opened outward. The keycode box was on the outside.
There were no windows in the door.
Guess what happened ALL THE FREAKING TIME when a person was standing at the door trying to punch in the 6-digit code and a salesperson (always a salesperson) decided to EXIT the office at full speed.
I got in the habit of blocking the door with my foot while punching in the code to avoid bruises. The salesperson that walked full force into the door the one time I had it blocked like that was not happy.
Eventually they changed it to an RFID reader, but you could still get smacked with the door when scanning your badge. The dumb part was almost every other door in the office had side windows next to them. Just not the entry doors.
15 years ago I worked at an office that had a keycode entry box on the door so you could unlock it. The keycode box was installed ON the door, above the handle.
The doors opened outward. The keycode box was on the outside.
There were no windows in the door.
Guess what happened ALL THE FREAKING TIME when a person was standing at the door trying to punch in the 6-digit code and a salesperson (always a salesperson) decided to EXIT the office at full speed.
I got in the habit of blocking the door with my foot while punching in the code to avoid bruises. The salesperson that walked full force into the door the one time I had it blocked like that was not happy.
Eventually they changed it to an RFID reader, but you could still get smacked with the door when scanning your badge. The dumb part was almost every other door in the office had side windows next to them. Just not the entry doors.
Death is Nature's way of telling you to slow down.