----- Original Message ----- From: "Adrian Stott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 4:31 PM Subject: [canals-list] Re: Risks in the nanny state
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >A few years ago we successfully argued that it was unnecessary for volunteers to wear life jackets to install mooring rings in the towpath at Froghall, working several feet back from the edge of a channel barely 3ft deep, on the grounds that nobody had ever suggested that any of the dozens of towpath walkers needed to take any such precautions. I don't think we'd be as likely to be successful today. > > Better drowned than duffers, eh? In recent years when BW have been doing winter maintenance at Bosley locks they have erected safety netting between the towpath edge and empty canal pounds. What H & S person thought that an empty canal is more dangerous than a full one? Phil
