fter the stairs in my favourite Kitsch collapsed Im starting to wonder about the health and safety standards in pubs and nightclubs....let's face it when we're drunk we don't notice these things and how often do you go to nightclubs completely sober...
I was really concerned at the state of the stairs on that night club a few months before they collapsed. The fact is H&S is not taken seriously, an article in Krakow Post quoted a owner as saying a lot of the basement clubs are death traps in a fire - I'd tend to agree.
The problem is that the regulations can be ignored if the firemaster just so happens to be friends with the owner.
leksander Rączka, son of Wielopole 15 owner Jan Rączka, told the newspaper Gazeta Krakowska
“We are very sorry for what happened in our building. However, from our side all the mandatory inspections of the building were made. These showed that the condition of the building was good and that there were no structural defects.”
It was safe becuase we were inspected... typical. I'm not a structural engineer but ancient stone steps in a domestic house with no steel support will eventually break with heavy use.
Thats why the place was not suitable to be used as a night club.