Health and Safety abuse in games
40 years ago the Health and Safety Act was introduced in the UK and in recent years, due to the "where's there's blame there's a claim" culture that has crept into society, some councils and businesses have taken H & S rules a bit too far.
With that in mind can you think of games that would make H & S inspectors shake their heads in disbelief?
I'll get the ball rolling with Automania due to the unsafe shelves which make objects fall on Wally's head.
With that in mind can you think of games that would make H & S inspectors shake their heads in disbelief?
I'll get the ball rolling with Automania due to the unsafe shelves which make objects fall on Wally's head.
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Hard working miners should not have to risk stepping on poisonous weeds at work. Not to mention all the other things.
Oil on the floor, slippery surfaces, conveyor belts, trampolines, fumes from the car, leaky oil drum, disappearing and moving platforms.
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The theme park in Roller Coaster would be shut down in seconds. Not a safety rail in sight.
Maroc really should not be lighting fires and falling asleep next to them in the forest in the first screen of Dragontorc.
A constantly flooding boat.
Jet Set willy has cannibal telephones.
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Turrican - All the shots fired and explosions and no ear protectors
International Karate - Tournament and no body / head protection
Terminator 2 - Motorbike riding and no helmet
Skool Daze - Catapults and other items not allowed in schools now, not forgetting bullying
Roland on the Ropes / FRED - No proper climbing gear used
Trap Door / Flunky - Nothing stored in correct places, animals in kitchen
Can't think of anything else presently!
Damn! Beaten to it!:smile:
Batman The Movie - COSHH regulations breached
Rocky Horror Show - Workplace temperature drops below 17 degrees Celsius
Sam Fox Strip Poker - Equality Act 2010
Bear Bovver - SRSC regs
There's a couple of things in Trashman that spring to mind.
1. You can get run over by your own dustbin lorry, whoever's driving it should be nowhere near a vehicle.
2. Getting attacked by dogs. I work for Royal Mail where the delivery postmen and women have to make out a log book of potentially dangerous dogs at addresses.
St. Crippens....The worst hospital in the world.
Where to start? Throwing things, urinating just about anywhere, getting drunk and cutting people's hair with shears, drilling holes in toilets, turning into a cooker...
Great stuff.
Bins right next to the food being prepared...
Not to mention the overwhelming carb content from all that flour, compared to the negligible bit of protein from the flying baddies.
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Cyclone - have they not considered evacuation by sea?
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Zzoom - we all know why!
Cobra - all of those parents letting pram's roll about like that? tsk tsk!
Chuckman - making him dispose bomb's without the protective gear!
This is a good idea for a thread! :)
Scuba Dive - Do not attempt to refill an oxygen bottle underwater. Do not ascend rapidly for risk of getting the bends. Stay well away from that giant octopus.
Turbo Esprit - That's why you should always slow down for a pedestrian crossing, never mount the pavement, always stop at red lights, keep to speed limits and never overtake in the face of oncoming traffic.
Enduro Racer - That road full of big stones and logs needs a maintenance too!
What's 'The Bends'?
Either an excellent album by Radiohead, or slang for nitrogen narcosis. If you rush to the surface while diving, the pressure forces bubbles of nitrogen into your bloodstream. These can cause intense pain in the joints, damage blood vessels and even can cause death. Divers who ascend too quickly have to go into a decompression chamber for days.
If you come up too quickly, the drop in pressure makes it come out of your blood too quickly and form bubbles that then block your arteries and can cause every sort of cramp, spasm, heart attack, lung blockage and general organ failure all at the same time.
It was only properly diagnosed when they were sending workers down into pressurised chambers to dig the underwater foundations of the Brooklyn Bridge.
That's Decompression Sickness. Nitrogen Narcosis is something different - that's whilst you're under pressure, the dissolved nitrogen can start to have detrimetal effects, more in some people than others, similar to having too much alcohol in your blood - your judgement and motor skills can go wonky, you can get paranoid or careless, and you don't even realise you're actually in any trouble.
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You don't need to come up quickly from a great depth. It's been reported in cases from surfacing quickly from just four metres.
and many cases is from depths of 10 metres.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/05/14/1021002446190.html
Most pleasure dive boats will drop a weighted trapeze down to the 3m mark for ascending divers to hold onto and wait, and will have a spare bottle of air on standby that they can pass down to anyone who hasn't enough left to hang around there.
You also get through more air at depth. At only 4m a regular bottle could last a good few hours, which can give you just as much disolved nitrogen as half an hour at maybe 15m.
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