Health & Safety at work

[Groucho]

Spotted this on Thursday, the guy was hacking some pipe brackets off the wall with a pickaxe from the digger bucket, time i got the camera out of the car he was just finishing.
Only had the 10-20mm on the camera at the time, so its cropped quite a bit
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2288/2533770423_e8c65953ef_o.jpg

[Dave Scanlon]

excellent.. someone buy the man in the hi-vis a beer... :cuckoo:

[Baz777]

I've been a designer in the construction industry for over 30 years. You use to see this sort of thing all the time.

Also, no hard hat, googles or probably gloves, no wonder we have one of the highest injury rates of any industry still.

[fracster]

Be thankful you have an industry, for the time being. Health and safety rubbish has strangled nearly all the others.

[hepburn]

Health and safety rubbish has strangled nearly all the others.

Along with the mass of greedy personal injury claims companies routinely urging us to sue at every opportunity!

[Gary Wood]

Along with the mass of greedy personal injury claims companies routinely urging us to sue at every opportunity!

i agree

[Ashers]

i thought u had to have a personnel platform fitted to a digger to be able to do that legally

[mattyh]

Looks perfectly safe to me, :)

[DiddyDave]

Looks perfectly safe to me, :)

Me too :thumbs:

As student I worked for an Agri-chem company out of a barn. One of the high flourescent bulbs needed replacing one day (when all other peeps were out - obviously)

Simple job I thought...

backed a Landrover into the Barn
put an 8x4 board on it for safety
then an upside-down water butt (the really big ones) on top of that
then climbed up and stood on top with a 5ft piece of glass in hand
hey presto, bulb changed, no probs


Who need H&S???

:shrug:

DD

[Groucho]

I work in the scaffolding industry and have known and seen people killed who
thought health & safety did not apply to them and did not give a thought for their wives and families left behind.
Only a couple of weeks ago a scaffolder got killed, fell about 70 feet from hoist carrying materials up a side of a building, from what i hear the guy was riding on top of the hoist instead of in the safety cage. i have also know of some killed from falling only 10 feet, head first onto concrete, about the same height as a landrover with a water butt on it really:)

[Tazmaniandevil]

Looking back on my days in the trade, I remember puting the heads on 12m lamp standards standing in a digger bucket. It scares me a bit now to think of it. No hard-hat harness etc. :shake: Total madness!

The highest I climb these days is if I need to stand on a step-stool to change a lightbulb, and in these days of energy saving lamps that's not very often.

[Ashers]

yet i fell on my head at work from higher than a landrover and damaged my back but im still alive and ok and normal :D

[chivers67]

Beats working off a ladder I guess :rules:

[hepburn]

I'm not advocating stupidity in the workplace but there are some H&S rules that really begger belief. Conkers springs to mind...

Whatever happened to good old common sense?

[Groucho]

I'm not advocating stupidity in the workplace but there are some H&S rules that really begger belief. Conkers springs to mind...

Whatever happened to good old common sense?

Unfortunately its the stupid and petty H & S regulations bought in by the PC brigade that gives people an overall low opinion of health and safety in general and the good regulations then dont seem to have the impact that they should.

I was a scaffolder for over 20 years and it still sends a shiver down my spine when of i think of the things i did before modern H & S regulations came in.
i was literally risking death everyday, just to earn a living, i must have been totally bonkers

[mattyh]

I agree, the stupid h&s regulations (goggles if you want to play conkers et al) make the whole h&s "department" look stupid.

I know a few guys that used to do steel errecting for a living, they used to walk over the top of big warehouse structures with no safety harnesses, fall arresters or anything :cuckoo:

Sod that!!

[Eau Rouge]

I'm not advocating stupidity in the workplace but there are some H&S rules that really begger belief. Conkers springs to mind...

Whatever happened to good old common sense?

Be very careful not to confuse health and safety laws with arrogant jobsworth muppets in local power not allowing things because they *think* it's against H&S law or would cause an insurance problem, and rather than ask and be told it's fine, they just go ahead and ban things.
You get the same problem with race relations issues (like banning Christmas etc) though there you also have the extra motive of saving cash and blaming PC.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/northamptonshire/7043184.stm