{"id":9121,"date":"2009-04-14T15:09:29","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T22:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=9121"},"modified":"2009-04-14T22:33:04","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T05:33:04","slug":"sailing-portimao-global-ocean-race-all-important-health-and-safety-offshore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=9121","title":{"rendered":"Sailing &#8211; Portimao Global Ocean Race &#8211; All important Health and Safety offshore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">All highly-developed societies have governmental bodies to monitor and protect an employee\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s physical and mental wellbeing in the workplace.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">These groups have an impact upon almost every facet of modern living whether you are driving in a car, visiting a supermarket or building an extension to your house. Without exception, all these groups \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the Office of Health &amp; safety (UK); the Department of Occupational Health &amp; Safety (USA); L\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Insitut National du Recherche et de Securite (France) or Bundesanstalt fur Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin (Germany) and so on &#8211; are criticised and ridiculed for overreaction and draconian and often unpractical and extremely expensive guidelines.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It could be imagined that offshore sailors are exempt from the dictates of these organisations as they roam the remote sea areas of the planet out of sight and far beyond the reach of beaurocracy and distant from the current climate of aggressive litigation culture. Certainly, cruising yachtsmen are \u00e2\u20ac\u201c for the most part \u00e2\u20ac\u201c unregulated and &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sail-world.com\/USA\/index.cfm?SEID=0&amp;Nid=55819&amp;SRCID=0&amp;ntid=0&amp;tickeruid=0&amp;tickerCID=0\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All highly-developed societies have governmental bodies to monitor and protect an employee\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s physical and mental wellbeing in the workplace. These groups have an impact upon almost every facet of modern living whether you are driving in a car, visiting a supermarket or building an extension to your house. Without exception, all these groups \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9121"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9123,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9121\/revisions\/9123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}