Among the messages are racist comments about a black Labour MP, who has been a frequent target of racist abuse online. The conversations also include homophobic memes about a prominent TV presenter. The Guardian has chosen not to name them but offered specific details about the content of the messages and the groups’ geographic locations to the CNC. The messages also show explicit images of nudity, as well as racist imagery and descriptions of graphic paedophilic acts. They also show men ridiculing female colleagues at the sites for their appearance and sexual attractiveness.
In other words, it shows that they are human beings and not robots in uniform. Which is quite refreshing. And so long as they aren't glued to their phones while they are supposed to be watching the nuclear sites, who really cares?
Apart from those determined to waste court time, I suppose...
The groups also suggest that cultural concerns at Sellafield may extend to a range of other sensitive sites, raising questions about conduct within the nuclear sector as a whole. Sources told the Guardian that they fear a failure to address a negative working culture and concerns ranging from bullying to a lack of trust in management could ultimately undermine the safety of some of the most hazardous sites in Europe.
Errr...OK. How, exactly?
Studies examining safety in the nuclear industry have found that working culture can feed into how sites are run. A 2020 report from the Office for Nuclear Regulation argued that poor culture fed into events which led to nuclear disasters, including Chornobyl in 1986 and Fukushima in 2011.
Gosh, I've always thought Chernobyl was caused by poor soviet era H&S practices and bad communication, not by Boris & Ivan swapping грязная шутка* on their mobiles...
*'dirty jokes'
I am shocked, I tell you shocked.
ReplyDeleteDid the exemplary Grauniad really print the name of that Japanese nuclear power station, built at, or below sea level in a region extremely susceptible to harbour waves. Was it all the misogynistic abuse that caused that poor lady, Shima, to hit the wrong button just as the sea advanced across the beach?
The Office for Nuclear Regulation sounds like another governmental organisation that isn't fit for purpose. To suggest that the disasters at Chernobel and Fukoshima were caused by naughty meme sharing is beyond absurd.
ReplyDeleteEvery outfit which has low safety standards has a culture like this.
ReplyDeleteSo does every outfit with high standards, because what we have here is men at work.
You know I wouldn't be at all surprised if the complainant of all this toxic practice wasn't a female either traditional or the new kind.
It appears the about 90% of all government departments are unnecessary and should be abolished after all they have shown it with their 'working from home' stupidity. Close them down and save the cost so reducing the tax burden on the population.
ReplyDeleteAnd of course, a reader is never shown any of those horrible, awful, double-plus-ungood memes, so that a reader could make their own assessment.
ReplyDelete@Doonhammer,
ReplyDeleteOne of my favourite Japanese names is 'Fukuzono', which is at its best if pronounced with a Scouse accent as 'Fuck Youse Ono', a comment a Scouser could make about a Beatle's spouse, or 'Fuck Youse, Oh No!' which suggest that the speaker regrets the initial exclamation!
See Clematis Fukuzono
I worked there 25 years ago and having worked in several different industries all my working life, I can tell the Guardian that what they are stirring about is standard working class humour.
ReplyDeleteI have noticed that as Nuclear energy is beginning to be mentioned again around the world,the Guardian is getting its lies and exaggerations in early.
Well yes johnd. As our moronic government seems to be really in earnest about shutting down our good old coal burners, we Aussies naturally think, 'We'd better build those nukes after all.'
ReplyDeleteI did like the article which suggested our Snowy 2 project, the one where the tunnelling machine's still stuck in the tunnel, has cost about the same as the nuclear power plant the South Koreans built in the UAE.
"Was it all the misogynistic abuse that caused that poor lady, Shima, to hit the wrong button just as the sea advanced across the beach?"
ReplyDeleteIt must have been...
"The Office for Nuclear Regulation sounds like another governmental organisation that isn't fit for purpose."
I'm not sure I can name one that IS...
"You know I wouldn't be at all surprised if the complainant of all this toxic practice wasn't a female either traditional or the new kind."
That's my suspicion too. That long march through the institutions again.
"Close them down and save the cost so reducing the tax burden on the population."
We really are long overdue a cull.
"And of course, a reader is never shown any of those horrible, awful, double-plus-ungood memes, so that a reader could make their own assessment."
No! And the ones we do get to see are usually nothing of the sort.
"...a comment a Scouser could make about a Beatle's spouse..."
😂
"... I can tell the Guardian that what they are stirring about is standard working class humour."
Yes, that's what they hate about it.
"I did like the article which suggested our Snowy 2 project, the one where the tunnelling machine's still stuck in the tunnel, has cost about the same as the nuclear power plant the South Koreans built in the UAE."
Yikes!