To have told DH off for driving while wearing his work lanyard

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this was yesterday! We have it drilled into us where I work that we should not wear our lanyards while driving as it’s dangerous, especially if you crash and the airbag is activated. DH says I’m “overreacting” and says his work don’t tell him anything like this. Aibu to have told him off and made him take the lanyard off?

Yes, or a badge, or a brooch or large buttons on a jumper or jacket.

If you are in a crash, surely anything in the car or on your person could be pushed into you. I don’t understand why lanyards are a particular danger. I have also never heard of this and your workplace seem to be babying you all.

YANBU to think it may be a safety hazard.

YABVU to talk to him like he's a naughty little boy.

If my DH spoke to me like that you speak to your DH, I'd be wearing half a dozen fucking lanyards when I was driving, just to piss him off.

I bet he loves you rushing home to brief him on the latest musings of your health and safety team.

I've also never heard of this. If it's so dangerous why don't all employers warn people? That said, I work in a hospital where its only really non clinical people who work away from clinical area who wear lanyards, moat other people use badge holders which they clip to their clothes.

My husband is a bus driver, it's his job to drive with his on

Has anyone 'told off' the 1000s of NHS staff who drive around with their lanyards on?

It doesn't sound as though they've got the memo.

It seems a very very odd thing for your health and safety thing to "drill into" you. A passing comment maybe but anything beyond that is weird.

Your health and safety team sound a bit mental if this is what they are “drilling into” you.

🤣🤣

You’ve really had this drilled into you by your work? How bizarre. I’d love to know the stats on death by strangulation from a lanyard following a car crash. Don’t most people shove their lanyard in a pocket or bag and produce it as needed?

I don’t do this! It was only this 1 thing that I told him about

What about phones carried in top pockets?

You sound like a complete nutter, the risk is absolutely tiny and he can make his own decisions.

Has anyone told the Police it's therefore dangerous to drive whilst wearing their radios? 🤔

I wear mine whilst driving
If I have an accident and die they can inform my kids who will then probably raid my safe and bugger off to the Maldives for 6 months
Win win situation there!

I didn’t tell him off like a baby ffs! I just reminded him to take it off and then told him again when he still didn’t

My husband drives with two sharpened pencils up his nose and this thread is now making me wonder if that could be dangerous toi.

Of course it is unreasonable to “tell off” an adult for doing something that carries an (statistically unlikely) risk of injury to themselves. Show him articles if you want, but don’t drone on about it (unless you are trying to be irritating).

Wibble.

Get a fucking life.

I've never heard of this! Like most people at my work I put it on before setting off in the morning as you have to show it at the gate and it's far quicker to do that with it round my neck than in my bag.

Life is full of all sorts of hazards which could be dangerous/fatal in certain circumstances. You cannot legislate or nanny against every single potential danger.

It’s a really weird thing to fixate on

Which is what could best be described as nagging and condescending