Health & safety gone mad? The Top 5 Tie Safety Tips
After ties were banned from a Stockport school, the UK's leading tie online retailer http://www.tiewarehouse.co.uk has compiled a list of tongue in cheek tips to keep tie-wearing men safe in the workplace.
[UKPRwire, Mon Mar 19 2007] WEARING a tie to work could kill hundreds of men each year – if you believe the health & safety scaremongers.
It was reported in the media this morning that Bramhall High School in Stockport has banned pupils from wearing ties, because they could be too dangerous. Instead youngsters must go to school wearing a clip-on tie, or no tie at all.
So Britain's leading online tie retailer http://www.tiewarehouse.co.uk has issued its tongue in cheek Top 5 Tie Safety Tips:
The site's Gary Baker said: "Offices are dangerous enough places, with paper cuts and stapler injuries to contend with. We sell thousands of ties each year, so feel it is our duty to protect the men of Britain with this guide".
Tie Warehouse's top 5 tie safety tips are:
1) Don't wear a tie in strong winds: it might wrap around your neck and choke you!
2) Don't hover near lift doors when they are closing: your tie might stay on the ground floor while you head for the third floor
3) Tuck your tie in your trousers before eating lunchtime soup: you may end up with no lunch as your tie gets all the soup
4) Avoid complicated tie knots: you might develop RSI
5) Don't run if your tie is lower than your belt: you might trip over it
Tie Warehouse was set up three years ago and now stocks more than 1,500 different types of ties and accessories.
Gary added: "Having their employees look smart at work is important to many businesses. We're here to help keep the injury count down!"
ENDS
NOTES TO EDITORS
- A Tie Warehouse spokesman is available for interview. Call 08452 303049. Or email press@publicityheaven.com
- Full press resources including images, logos and screenshots, are also available online at http://www.tiewarehouse.co.uk/press
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