Originally Posted by
hfly
Oh please, it wasn't a problem for decades and only became a "problem" when BA tried to soak its customers (bea, again nice try on the kilo vs bag thing, however you of course ignored the whole 32kg across the Atlantic thing, every cent BA makes from that is gravy as they collected nothing before). Regarding H&S studies, published perhaps by the same H&S idiots who would not allow Policemen to jump in the water to save children which led to three drownings in the UK in recent years when children died? You do realize that citing any H&S idiocy only buries your cause further to rational thinking people, right?
hfly, just because they did it in the past (wth the resulting back injuries, which happened more often than you would ever know) does not mean that they should not make changes now to make sure that a recurrence of said back injuries does not happen.
And it WAS a problem for decades, it is just that it was unreported and in a different OH&S environment. You may see that as a bad thing as it might be costing you more money, but there are all sorts of things which were once normal everyday sorts of things which are now looked on as out of the ordinary.Transportation is one, steam locomotives are another, making people lug heavy baggage is perhaps another.
Given the current OH&S environment, 23kg is the accepted "ordinary" limit, with an "occasional" transgression. But doing more than 23kg day in and day out just isn't with it.
Dave