Hang On To Your Hats...

[agchristie]

Is this one of the most bizarre H & S rules?

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/671208/university-of-east-anglia-students-banned-throwing-mortarboards-health-safety

[RATTER15]

Stupid nonsense!!

[Mamyalynne]

Reads like it's the University rather than the HSE but I agree daft ruling.

You'd think they would back their decision with concrete evidence of the past injuries they mention.

[naomi24]

I hope they ignore it - and I wonder what punishment will ensue if they don't? They can hardly be thrown out!

[agchristie]

Indeed Mamya :)

[naomi24]

Haaa!

[sandyRoe]

Haven't seen a mortarboard about QUB. In a long time. I think they were banned years ago. That seems sensible to me.

[Jackdaw33]

This would not be a problem at a traditional university as graduating students do not wear mortar boards. This seems to be limited to ex-polytechnics.

[naomi24]

jackdaw, not so - although I think it's optional in some universities.

[Cloverjo]

I love the hat-throwing photo of my son's graduation from last year. Lovely scene and great memories. A shame to stop it.
It is not an ex-poly, btw, Jackdaw.

[Jackdaw33]

They certainly are not worn at Oxford, Cambridge or Durham, only by staff.

[agchristie]

Cloverjo > I love the hat-throwing photo of my son's graduation from last year.

No injuries I hope!

This report is menacing, in fact, heads might roll if the warning isn't heeded...

[bibblebub]

this is an annual copy filler story http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/university-birmingham-students-banned-throwing-9647549

[Old_Geezer]

You could have someone's eye out with one of those things !

[Jackdaw33]

I still have my gown and hood from graduation but have never worn a mortar board, even on the grandest of occasions.

[Mamyalynne]

Good business model for someone then , a range of foam rubber mortar boards.

[fiction-factory]

I never wore one for my graduation although I think i might have carried one. I now wish I had worn it for at least one photo.

[Jackdaw33]

At my school and at the one where I taught only the Headmaster had a mortar board which he never wore but carried with him on state occasions.

[david small]

A cap in the eye can cripple. A beret from behind may startle. Now...a fez.....

[stuey]

I had a mortar board, plus I carried all my stuff in a hod.

[retrocop]

London Ontario School of Brickdropping Stuey ???