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Just read in the CC club magazine that after the last Health & Safety forum all irons and ironing boards have been removed from all sites!!!!! Is this an April fools story?

Next it will be dont walk on wet grass you may fall and break something. Dont plug in EHU only wardens qualified!!!

What is up with this country that adults cannot accept risk anymore!!!!

Apparently its genuine. The reasons behind the decision was that the irons were so little used it does not justify the twice a year PAT testing so they have been removed. Unfortunately with as with a lot of CC announcements they don't initially give a full explanation which leads lots of rumours.

David

Hi Manty, have also read this in the Mag, though it dose not give any detailed reason, or if you can use your own iron, I think there could be one or two reasonable explanations, it might be that children wander in and out the ironing room unsupervised and there is a danger of them touching still hot irons, or maybe irons are being left on and are overheating and pose a very real risk of fire. Would be interesting to find out?.

Hi Tentz, Yep surprisingly they do iron while caravanning, think one of the reasons is they only carry a limited number of cloths and are staying for along periods at a time, as for me I do the minimal amount of work on site and the maximum amount of pleasure I can get from my stay.

Quote: Originally posted by jhsw on 18/4/2012

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Hi David, must have been typing as you posted,  that reason makes sense, wonder why they could not have stated that in Mag.

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John

The was a long debate about it on the CC forum with many people thinking it was an April fools joke. However one of the staff members came back (well after 1st April!) with a far more detailed explanation of which I have provided a scaled down version above. I did make the point that the Club should not make such short and sharp statements without explaing the background.

David