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?

@Swizandswap I’m not sure there will be strong natural selection; it’s unlikely that people who remove their lanyards will have significantly more children and dominate the gene pool.

@ancientgran ancientgran · Today 12:12
Swizandswap · Today 11:54
Surely buttons would be more dangerous as at 200 mph they'd go through you like a bullet. Let's ban buttons.

(1) yes, of course other items can be dangerous though I’m
yet to see a button of the same
size as a lanyard with sharp edges
(2) no one is talking about banning anything, simply suggest an easy behaviour change
(3) there isn’t an easy solution to buttons, there is an easy solution to the lanyard.

As crashing your car sufficiently to trigger the airbag is very unlikely I am not going to loose sleep over wearing mine to drive.

Apparently I shouldn't wear headphones under my motorbike helmet either but if I fall off at 50 mph I will have bigger issues I feel!

Pick your battles this isn't one of those

Crumbs they will be telling us kettles get hot and you can fall off ladders next.

On the assumption you are married to an adult, you are BVU, and sound like hard work. However, if you ‘made him’ take it off, and he did it, then that’s on him!

Love all the smart arsed answer towards the Op.

Air bags deploy at 200 mph, in order inflate faster than the collision. So if you think placing a hard object in-between your chest and the air bag inflating at this speed is funny crack on 😂.

After all this is natural selection at its finest.

You sound like fun to be with

Why are you telling an adult off for anything?

how about reminding him it's a hazard rather than "telling him off"?

Never heard of this but the whole telling your husband off gave me the ick. You may tell him of the risks but when you get to telling him off then unless he’s into that as some form of fetish it’s friggen weird. He isn’t a child

This.

I just asked my friend who is a health and safety officer. She said her employers and lots of others advise as per the OP.
I wouldn’t tell my DH about it more than once though.

I always take mine off. I work in a school and whilst 95%+ of parents are lovely, there are a few arseholes. I'm sure they would love to complain about some aspect of my driving if I was seen in my distinctive school lanyard.

I also have some pin badges stuck to mine to personalise it; these are another reason I remove it for driving as I don't fancy a body piercing from them.

I remember we were briefed about this at work a few years ago, seem to remember one of the contractors or some sort of connection to our company being in an accident and getting kind of impaled in the chest by it or something.
My role is office based so I can't really remember the details.

She also says she takes hair clips out when she’s driving.

We've got one of those hot taps at work instead of a kettle.
They've been told to put a "caution Hot water" sign on it.

I wouldn't mind, but the two button safety mechanism is a bit tricky & it usually takes at least three attempts to make a cup of tea.🙄

Absolutely roared with laughter on the us at this - everyone is now thinking I’m mad 🤣🤣🤣

Surely an underwired bra would also pose a risk? Or large buttons on a blouse or jacket.

Yeah I take mine off. It went round work as a safety bulletin, somebody died. I just pop it in the car door. No hardship.

Not got time to rtft but you and others are massively missing the point. Its not about strangulation but about the lanyard being forced into your body by the air bag causing serious injury. I have also been briefed on this

If you were that risk averse you wouldn't get in a car in the first place.

Telling an adult off is treating them like a child.

You’d already told him. It’s up to him if he gives it the headspace to remember to do it or not. Not for you to nag him.

I’ve never heard of this before. Surely it’s no different to wearing jewellery or having a pair of sunglasses tucked into your top. Surely metal necklaces with stones would cause just as much damage if not more than a plastic case.

This is again, a report of a report with no actual details and no link to any actual data.

Every link provided so far refer to the same two stories (in one of which it wasn't the lanyard, it was keys claimed to cause the injury).

So all this noise seems to refer back to one single incident, for which no details are available and not any actual accident data.

There are a whole lot of things that could be risky when driving.

Seatbelts
Objects in the car
Mobile phone use
Distractions in the car
Plus the way you are driving.
Hazards when driving
The car itself - brakes, lights, fluid levels.

This is just one more thing to be aware of. Maybe there should be a check list before you start driving to ensure that you have reduced the risks to an acceptable level?

Yes I heard this, and take mine off. It’s because of the air bag is activated in a crash, the landward could cause chest injuries by being forced into it by the impact.