As a retired Health and Safety Professional, I take exception to the negative attitudes displayed in this thread. It is so easy to ridicule those who, working in your best interests, in most cases have training and knowledge that justifies their actions.
Some rebuttals:
“C” grade passes – Have you any idea of the training required to be registered as a Safety Professional? As well as being retired from IOSH, I was also a Chartered Engineer.
Asbestos – why don’t you try discussing this with the family of one of the thousands who will die this year from the effects of working with asbestos?
Radiation – Can you guarantee without a simple radiation measurement that there is no leakage or cracked glass or external contamination. – and yes, I do know about radiation, having worked in a company that made radiation detectors.
I agree that a sense of proportion (officially called risk assessment) has to be applied, but just consider what your reaction would be if one of your children became ill after visiting an Air Museum (or any other Museum for that matter)?
Cheers,
Ian. (Whose Enstrom was fortunately built in the late 70’s!)
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