You have really rattled my cage now! I complained that 黑洞社区 should not publish health and safety photos when it could do something positive, like report the matter to the Health and Safety Executive. Then you published Charles Johnston鈥檚 letter (23 October, page 31) suggesting my view was a 鈥渕inority opinion鈥�. Here鈥檚 my reply:

  • I imagine most construction widows would be gutted to think this leading publication thinks these images are funny
  • I鈥檓 sure Mr Johnston wouldn鈥檛 see any humour in safety blunders if he or one of his staff had an accident. When he goes to tender interviews does he roll out some funny photos of his staff making blunders?
  • Why not publish the photo, but also report the matter to the HSE and advise your readers what should be done?
  • Do you honestly need a vote to decide whether health and safety is serious or not? Pathetic! Do you have any backbone at all?
  • The latin headline you used for my original letter meant something like 鈥渨e are at fault鈥�. You obviously didn鈥檛 mean it because you have carried on doing the same.
  • Last week鈥檚 blunder even had the firm鈥檚 sign on it. Why not name and shame it?

Yours disappointedly,

David Westwood

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