Health and Safety?

This image is part of a trolley of plants for sale outside Tesco today. The soil in the pots was bone dry. They had been tall plants but they were so badly wilted I couldn’t work out what plants they were. There were other less tall plants on higher shelves on the trolley. They were all drooping and all had very dry soil in their pots. I don’t think Tesco realise that even if they eventually water these plants and they seem to recover, they will have been weakened from the experience. If the plants are allowed to get this dry on a daily basis, they soon just won’t recover!

I went to tell Reception that the plants needed water, and showed them this photo. ‘I’ll pass the message on’ was the bored response . ‘But we can’t water them when it’s busy (it wasn’t) because of Health and Safety’. The water might make the ground slippery’. When I left Tesco 45 minutes later, the plants hadn’t been watered. At least everyone must have been Healthy and Safe!

When it rains a lot out in the real world, where’s the Health and Safety person forbidding the rain?