A Health and Safety exercise

Do have a look at this imaginative approach to Health and Safety

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AWEM

Reply to
Andrew Mawson
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Yep - it it wiv a ammer (or even several ammers). Looks perfectly reasonable to me ;-)

Regards, Tony

Reply to
Tony Jeffree

Can't see anything much to criticise there. The hankies on their heads would appear to offer excellent protection against scalp burns and not much need for goggles when you're hitting something that big. You'll still hit it blind if some molten steel gets in your eyes once you've got into the 'swing' of things.

Watching Top Gear the other week when they were resurfacing a road it's a wonder we get anything done these days. Every lorry that reverses has to have its reversing noise thingy beeping plus a man to walk behind it and make sure it doesn't run over anyone who's missed all the signs that the road is closed and walked down it to fall asleep in the middle of a turning point. This despite the fact that no such man was apparent when the previous lorry turned round there a few minutes earlier. I could fancy that job although it does seem to offer a non-zero possibility of getting run over by the lorry you're meant to be ensuring doesn't run over anyone else. Maybe they should have a second man to watch the first man in case he trips. And then a third man to.....

Nah, that'd just be silly.

There was a story online some time ago about a church and what they have to go through now when a light bulb blows. The lights are 20 or more feet up and they used to get a bloke in with a ladder for ten minutes and he'd change the blown ones.Now every job has to start with a risk assessment which says, yep they're a f***ing long way up so scaffolding has to be erected by team of men, then one goes up with a hard hat and safety rope on and changes the bulb. Then all the scaffolding has to come down again. It now costs £2000 to change a bulb. I remember my grandad climbing the outside of the church steeple to fix the weathercock in the 60s. They'd probably have to demolish the church, fix the weathercock at ground level and then put it back up again to do that now.

Reply to
Dave Baker

It can only get worse. Saw a prog on telly t'other night, about kids whose mothers' had drunk rather too much alcohol during pregnancy. All very unfortunate - but now there's a call for warning labels to be placed on booze.

Not that I'm against such practices, I just feel the warnings could be more generic...such as "Are you too stupid to be doing/using this?"

Regards,

Reply to
Stephen Howard

At least we aren't quite so bad as America yet. The list of warnings for thr terminally stupid that come with things you buy are longer than the operating instructions. This microwave must not be used for drying pets. Remove food from can before cooking. Danger of burns - food may be hot after cooking. Do not clean this appliance with industrial shot blasting equipment. Do not use this appliance in the bath. Do not operate this appliance with any part of your body inside it. This appliance may be damaged if dropped from a great height. Not recommended for cooking CD's.

Reply to
Dave Baker

The warning label should be fixed to the women to deter would be inseminators

AWEM

Reply to
Andrew Mawson

Cant say as I could see much wrong !! Then again, I forgot we are a nanny state who achieve very little other than rules and regulations and tons of pointless paperwork !!

Reply to
Emimec

It seemed that the foreman actually got his hands on the job at one point. That seemed quite dangerous, could have caused a walkout :-)

Mark Rand RTFM

Reply to
Mark Rand

Can't really see much wrong here... If you look, everything was kept under complete control throughout the process. Admittedly H&S training in 1904 would probably run to a tradesman hammerchewer telling a new apprentice "...if you have an accident, be sure it's instantly fatal cuz it'll hurt less than what I'll do to you... and cost the company less..." Lessons taught that way generally tend to stick. I reached the conclusion some time ago that the current level of H&S regulation is to reverse the effects of evolution by allowing the stupid to survive long enough to breed! Cheers, Scruff.

Reply to
scruffybugger

Nah - one smack with a hammer across his nuckles & he wouldn't have tried it a gain

Regards, Tony

Reply to
Tony Jeffree

I though H&S was just an abbreviation of HS&OTT...

Regards, Tony

Reply to
Tony Jeffree

You're right there Scruff. Donkeys years of natural selection, refining the human stock, now going down the pan.

Good job it was a silent movie or I would have had to put my ear defenders on.

Steve

Reply to
Cheshire Steve

I did anyway, just in case... You can't be too careful you know (or so the H&S chappie at work tells me when I'm trying to explain the difference between calcium silicate and blue asbestos :-(

Mark Rand RTFM

Reply to
Mark Rand

You should have put your ear defenders on, then you wouldn't have been able to hear what he was saying.

Fortunately I have reached an age where my memory is going. Its so easy to forget these little briefings, or forget where I filed the note. They can't complain about that, that would be age discrimination.

Steve

Reply to
Cheshire Steve

You forgot "no user-consumable components inside"

Reply to
Pip Luscher

I was once told by an H&S Moron that I had to tie the top of the ladder before I could climb it. I enquired whether I could use a second ladder as a temp. means of access to get to the top of the first ladder.He had no problem with that as long it was only temporary!!

Reply to
Grumpy owd man

You can't go on a flat roof until it's been scaffolded. Who puts the scaffolding up. ??

Now they have just announced that you can't set fire to these twonk's because of the Co2 emissions but surely a low fat H&S inspector is exempt or at least carbon neutral ???

-- Regards,

John Stevenson Nottingham, England.

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Reply to
John Stevenson

H&S inspectors are just a waste of carbon...

Regards, Tony

Reply to
Tony Jeffree

'sall right. Apparently they can be composted if you put them in a pit with a layer of lime :-)

Mark Rand RTFM

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Mark Rand

of the Co2

Note that the use of mineral lime is now becoming frowned upon (by the lotus eating KCMG brigade at SEPA at least). Apparently we're now supposed to use products derived from wood ash at around 4 times the price... 'S imported from some foreign place with a bizzare name too... Gwent or summat...

And shame on you to those thinking of adding a layer of civil service environmentalists to the top of the compost heap!

You should always layer the crusty stuff (H&S fools) with the wet drips (SEPA, TEA etc.). You get better decompostion that way!

Cheers, Scruff.

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scruffybugger

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