Matt_01
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I have glanced through many of the posts but not read too many in detail as it was hurting my brain. I was once trained as an OHS auditor but the course was rubbish (government endorsed and paid for the training provider .
Off topic and just my Family experience.
My Great Grand Farther died at 106, he smoked, drank, ate food that we now believe to be cancer causing, lived in and did self renovations on a house that was eventually considered as not healthy for humans, not that there was anything structurally wrong with it or uninhabitable, it was just mostly made of asbestos. His daughters, twins, one being my Grandmother turns 100 in the next 6 weeks, they grew up in said unlivable house, they also smoked, drank and ate the bad food served up to them as kids. My mother and father also smoked, still drink, eat all the bad foods, they are now in there late 70's and still travel and live well. My father spent most if not all of his life as a diesel engineer working in the bowels of oil tankers. So now to me, I have not fallen to much from the family tree. Drink, eat the foods that taste good but some tree hugging pinko will say it is cancer causing and I am unlikely to change my ways.
Yes, OHS has a place and as a former company director/owner I am fully aware of director obligations however I do thing society today has gone a little over board on the side of caution.
Off topic and just my Family experience.
My Great Grand Farther died at 106, he smoked, drank, ate food that we now believe to be cancer causing, lived in and did self renovations on a house that was eventually considered as not healthy for humans, not that there was anything structurally wrong with it or uninhabitable, it was just mostly made of asbestos. His daughters, twins, one being my Grandmother turns 100 in the next 6 weeks, they grew up in said unlivable house, they also smoked, drank and ate the bad food served up to them as kids. My mother and father also smoked, still drink, eat all the bad foods, they are now in there late 70's and still travel and live well. My father spent most if not all of his life as a diesel engineer working in the bowels of oil tankers. So now to me, I have not fallen to much from the family tree. Drink, eat the foods that taste good but some tree hugging pinko will say it is cancer causing and I am unlikely to change my ways.
Yes, OHS has a place and as a former company director/owner I am fully aware of director obligations however I do thing society today has gone a little over board on the side of caution.
