The Lamp post post.

[Chrispy]

This was going to be a funny post about heath and safety gone mad again but in the end it's turned into a warning about jumping to conclusions before the facts are known!

I pass this lamp post on the way home from work and it's been bugging me since they put it up over a year ago.
Can you see the problem, well I thought I could so I've been meaning to stop and take a picture of it to share with my friends and have a laugh.

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Well I was wrong wasn't I when I got back and down loaded the pictures and blew them up I could see the error of my ways, I must stop jumping to conclusions with H+S gone mad.

 

[NazNomad]

I hoped it was going to say, ''If you can read this, you're 30ft off the ground''. :-D

 

[Jonzjob]

Well I for one wouldn't go any higher than the column :?

Are there more wires higher up or should the sign be read whilst standing on yer head on the top of said column #-o

 

[CHJ]

Presume it's an insulated sleeve, around the steel lamp column but it seems a bizarre way of labelling the danger as any maintenance would be done from a Cherry Picker that in itself was at a greater risk than anyone's ability to scale the smooth pole and ground themselves by touching the earthed pole.

 

[Chrispy]

Just to clarify things I presumed that the sign would say "danger high voltage" etc. re the lamp on the post but now I realize that the danger is from the "nearby" over head wires you can see in the picture which I imagine really are carrying High voltages and you wouldn't want to lift your self into with a cherry picker with or without a hard hat.

 

[Sporky McGuffin]

I think I'd want another of those signs a bit lower down just to be sure...