Cleaning up

Kia Ora,

What am I a cleaning up? Just some loose ends before giving an example of a government department who doesn't know how to carry out risk assessements.

First thanks to Mr O'Neills response. Yes that is how it is. How do I know because that was what I was told when I suggested OSH just show up to check out security.

Each Weekend there are hundreds, probably thousands of injuries received by security (mainly in hospitality) but no one calls in OSH as it is just another good  "work out" as I heard someone once describe it. Even minor injuries or potential issues whould be at least recorded. Not likely & even regular staff will be lucky to get ACC if off work.

But as our old mate Swampy keeps saying "If security are going to be professional then OSH & acts like it are actually empowering" or words to that effect. It is just the industry at present doesn't have the vision to see it.

Then we come back to the NZ mindset on security. After all the upset over those photos the "Press" in its  Monday editorial says "in our opinion we did not put anyone in more danger" or words to that effect.

Wake up! of course you did. Not just the guys on the ground, but their families (don't assume there are no people in sympathy with the Terrorists here in NZ) & the upset for their families.

Then there is the pouncing on the comments by the CDS as a reprimand of one of the persons involved. Not the words I heard or have seen quoted at all. He was spoken too about being more careful of revealing his idenity. Yet again the media twist it to make it look like they are the good guys.

Though my contact with the CDS was fleeting in an infantry unit, his straight forward approach & sense of humour (at my expense I must add) impressed me as a young soldier.

To Twist his words over this affair just shows how the media in this country views the military & their lack of security awareness over this issue is just a joke.

You see it all the time when they pay the lip service to ANZAC, then it is you have had your day we don't want to know about what you do or how you have being affected.