Risk Assessments

This is just a quick one, because I'm going to get some sleep tonight.

Ever fallen down the stairs? Yes? I'm sure you have, everyone does at some point or other. What did you get for it? A few bruises? Seriously damaged pride? Broken bones? £30,000?

Not £30,000? Well, you made a mistake there.

Aberdeenshire Council just paid out £30,000 to a woman who fell down the stairs at work. It seems the stairs were 'too steep' and 'too narrow' for people to properly step on. She THOUGHT she tripped on a bulge.

The thing is, no-one carried out a risk assessment. OH MY GOD! If they were so bl**dy dangerous then why didn't the staff in the building do something about it? or stop using them? Or carry out a risk assessment themselves? There must have been someone in the office qualified to do risk assessments. I know it's too much to expect someone in the council to have the common sense to put up a warning sign .