We seem to have become a nation that sees risk everywhere, intent on blaming someone else for the slightest thing that goes wrong,then making them pay for it if possible.
I’ve just been reading on a pensioner’s forum of somebody who was hit in the face by a quilt that fell from a shelf while she was reaching for another one,dislodging her glasses.
She says quite seriously that she’d have claimed compensation if they’d been damaged. In that case,I must have missed a fortune with the number of things that have hit me in the face over the years,trying to get my short little arms to reach the top shelf.
In the version I read of this incident,the teacher tried out the sled on the slope first and came to no harm.To me,raised in the 50s and so exposed to all manner of hazardous activities,that’s all I’d want in the way of risk assessment.
As for submitting a risk assessment in writing,I bet the snow would have melted before the activity was considered and permission granted.
The only thing this teacher was guilty of sounds like using his common sense,though I wouldn’t be happy about him lying to the headmaster.
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