Littlejohn Risk Assessment Failure

Littlejohn Risk Assessment Failure

Todays
missive from the Daily Mails
tedious and unfunny churnalist Richard Littlejohn contains many of the usual
tried and tested elements: gay bashing (“not
my idea of a night out”), New Labour bashing, BBC bashing, victimhood
deployment, and implying that “Auguste”
Balls is somehow to blame for some or all of these. But one Dicky Windbag
favourite is missing. And thats risk assessments.
Risk assessment, Guv? It's all elf'n'safety and com-pen-say-shun, innit?!?Does Littlejohn actually go on about risk assessments much?
You jest. Consider his rant
from last June about Bacton Cricket Club: “Howzat! This daft ban simply isnt
cricket”. Dick knew who the villains were: “Although this is superficially an elfnsafety scandal, scratch the
surface and there is usually an intransigent insurance company armed with a
gruesome risk assessment”.July brought an
incident at Ipswich station resulting in dozens of cancelled trains. Dicky
boy was on the case: “No doubt there was
a safety officer on the scene doing a risk assessment”. Then an
off-duty cop saved a drowning woman in Croatia: “If hed done the same while on duty in Croydon, hed have been
disciplined for failing to carry out a proper risk assessment and not waiting
for a team with water training”.Last month, Littlejohn was on the case of a
parent who had sued West Sussex Council after her son was injured in a
playground incident: “Her lawyers alleged
that the school had not carried out a proper risk assessment”, he observed,
before adding “This column has made a
good living monstering the elfnsafety and com-pen-say-shun culture”. No
shit, Sherlock.Dicky Windbag just loves his risk assessment meme. Less
than a fortnight ago, in another of those not-at-all-side-splittingly-funny
“spoofs” he indulges in to supposedly
lighten the mood, his 007 told that “Q
has been told by the risk assessment boys that its now illegal to supply guns
disguised as pens and amphibious cars which fire rockets”. Not so fast
Meester Bond, theres a risk assessment to do. Heh, heh, heh.So why no mention of this trusty stand-by today? Perhaps
this is not unconnected with
the news that “Impenetrable M5 smog
caused by fireworks display led to huge crash which killed seven people after
organisers did not carry out proper risk assessments, court is told”. Yes,
the prime suspect for the pile-up near Taunton following a nearby firework
display in November 2011 is risk assessment.The organiser of that display stands accused of botching his
risk assessment. As a result of the smog drifting on to the M5, 51 people were injured
and seven died: there can have been fewer worse crashes on the UKs motorway
network. And I know about the court case because I read it in the Daily Mail. Thats the same paper that
carries Littlejohns rants. The ones that ridicule risk assessments.Right now, Id assess the risk of Dick looking like a Dick
to be in the “high” category.