Anyone Seen BT's European Health & Safety Week Poster?

Whilst Royal Mail Group have fully committed to working with the CWU in supporting this weeks European Week Of Health And Safety in the form of events information and activities across the business, BT seems to have decided that producing posters circulated via the CWU’s Regional Committees Chairpersons constitutes their full commitment.

Or have they?

Strangely BT may actually have given good publicity to the week of health and safety by sponsoring a national competition entitled, Spot The BT Euro Health & Safety Week Poster!

It appears that the BT safety posters do not actually exist, unless you count the poster to the right as being BT’s.

However, it seems that they have simply sent out a stack of the official European Agency For Safety and Health At Work posters and added their own special Euro H&S Week BT Logo.

Unlike the poster below which includes a visible CWU logo illustrating the Unions support for the annual European-wide safety week, BT’s has the added touch of a high-tech 21st century logo being totally invisible to the human eye.

In that sense it is completely in keeping with their campaign commitment – it too being totally invisible!

Those entering BT’s national competition, Spot The BT Euro Health & Safety Week Poster, will be disappointed to learn that the closing date for entries may well be some years into the future, if their previous years of invisible commitment to the annual Euro-wide safety campaign and this year’s EU 2012-2013 Campaign 'Working together for risk prevention - through Leadership and Worker participation’, is anything to go by!

It is clear that BT along with too many other British blue chip companies agree with the Tory-led Coalition government that the health, safety and welfare of their employees is of minor importance.

After all, with over 2 million people being unemployed it is easier to discard broken workers and replace them with fresh 'work units'; than to prevent workers becoming damaged in the first place!

This of course explains why work related stress amongst BT's employees remains a major issue, and why workplaces in the UK are top of the Euro-league for work related stress sickness absence. With a bullying management style appearing to be indemic within UK workplaces, employers such as BT will ensure we remain the top country in Europe for workplace stress.

Stress Kills – UK Workplaces Kill – UK Employers Kill

Disclaimer: This article is purely the responsibility of the warped mind of the editor of this website. Any resemblance to CWU USR's actual experience in BT workplaces is purely coincidental.

Source: Chris Ingram (personal capacity)

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