Total OSH Madness

Last night I went to a ball at the Wellington Town Hall. Once the Jazz Band finished out came about 20 staff to remove the one foot high stage they were playing on.

They placed barriers around the stage, including along the front of the main stage. Then, only after there was no way any one could have gotten within a metre of the stage they used the hydraulic system to lower the stage to the floor level. The barriers are then all removed.

All this to lower it about one foot, when even someone standing on the stage would have been in no danger at all. Oh well, I guess they may have thought someone from the Department of Labour was present.