Mind how you go

If the BBC ever builds another building, the entrance will be Hawaiian walk-through.

The new revolving doors at Broadcasting House are just too much for at least two employees, who have written to staff website Ariel and complained. This has now become national and international news. One of the complainants is known to me. In my humble opinion, if humans ranging the scales of physical capabilities from Tony Hall through Lord Patten to Alan Yentob can manage the transit, the rest should just get on with it.

In 2004, 800 staff at BBC Birmingham were issued with stickmen diagrams to show how best to progress through the new revolving doors at the Mailbox, after a female employee damaged a toe-nail.  I confidently predict there will be a easy guide to helical stairs soon, on the staircases connecting the new BBC newsroom to upper and lower floors. I hate to think what safety guidance is attached to other key dangers, such as toilet seats, filing cabinets, carpets, soup bowls, pencils etc.