How safe is your workplace?

[mossy1200]

I work for a training organisation and have done for over 5 and a half years.
Unit standard 17600 and 16757 require Harness/Lanyard inspections and for the advanced height safety, not only do you have to inspect, you have to be able to recognise faults. I wonder who you trained with?

Pre Use Inspection is included but we cant fill out the 6month logbook anymore to certify the equipment. We need advanced height training additional day. Safety n Action
I likely worded that incorrectly.

[unstuck]

Men generally don't read instructions

Yeah, I didn't read the instructions before assembling a table saw last weekend.

Who would have guessed they would have surrounded the motor in polystyrene and cardboard.

[Swoop]

Who the hell will read that!!!! Where is the page at the end that we all sign & let's get on with it...

M. Mouse.
A. Hitler.
R. McDonald
...


OSH. Designed to keep retards employed since ages ago (in america).

[caspernz]

The funny thing in the civilian world is we're almost completed buttoned up in cotton wool and bubble wrap, hi-viz style of course!

The dumb thing is that there are times I feel more ill at ease with my workmates, due to some of the actions, than I was when surrounded by comrades in arms on peacekeeping missions.

But hey, my perspective isn't unique in that regard I'd guess

[Voltaire]

I was thinking about taking up worm farming but according to Worksafe its pretty dangerous , closely followed by mini golf

[Oakie]

Are you taking the piss? reasonably safe?

Not taking the piss at all. Our staff report their accidents even if they are minor. We've only had one that involved the Labour Inspector and that was because one of the people we support cracked the rib of his support person. Not hazard related. We do not have the same potential for injury that many have as we have no heavy machinery. Yes, reasonably safe compared to many.

[mossy1200]

Not taking the piss at all. Our staff report their accidents even if they are minor. We've only had one that involved the Labour Inspector and that was because one of the people we support cracked the rib of his support person. Not hazard related. We do not have the same potential for injury that many have as we have no heavy machinery. Yes, reasonably safe compared to many.

Nobody at my work would dare take a plaster from the first aid kit. We all have our own first aid kits.
The last cut finger causing a half day off work escalated into a Guy coming over from America to investigate the incident.

[ellipsis]

...fuck this...I'm not getting up tomorrow, it's just too fucking dangerous... mark my words, if you get up tomorrow someone, somewhere will die... you should stay in bed too...in fact we should all have a fucking, World Safety Day, in bed...or would that be fucking dangerous too... pwobibly...

[mossy1200]

...fuck this...I'm not getting up tomorrow, it's just too fucking dangerous... mark my words, if you get up tomorrow someone, somewhere will die... you should stay in bed too...in fact we should all have a fucking, World Safety Day, in bed...or would that be fucking dangerous too... pwobibly...

I been married 14 years. I stare death in the face and laugh but I am not going to be the one that uses a plaster from the first aid kit.

[Oakie]

...fuck this...I'm not getting up tomorrow, it's just too fucking dangerous... mark my words, if you get up tomorrow someone, somewhere will die... you should stay in bed too...in fact we should all have a fucking, World Safety Day, in bed...or would that be fucking dangerous too... pwobibly...

Bed sores.

[Banditbandit]

Well, apparently our Government thinks that working in a tertiary educational institute is not as safe as working in the agricultural/horticultural sector, planting demolition exploives ...

It is a dangerous as working in a worm farm or a butterfly farm ..

[haydes55]

I work in customers roof cavities, alone. I work in very confined spaces (I once had to tape ducting to my leg and pull my body through a 6m cavity because there wasn't enough room for me to lie and have ducting beside me), I have no confined working training at all.

I work on ladders up to 5m high. No working at heights training, no ladder safety videos, nothing. Here's a ladder, lean it against that, climb. Training done.

I work in extreme temperatures, as cold as -5, highest was 66 degrees (+/-4 degrees accuracy if our temp probes). My training consists of the boss supplying squincher to add to our water. I had to do an induction to the company, questions of how to install, how to service etc. And a section on how to recognize heat stroke and how to prevent it. We had an installation manual which had the answers to every question, but I couldn't find the answers to what they wanted to know about heat stroke, so I guessed an answer. I got the second highest score in the franchise for the entire induction.

Never done a first aid course, yet I work with knives, power tools and in dangerous places.

I spend about 2-3 hours a day driving, no driver training (my contract specifically says I'm not allowed to race any work vehicle).

I'm due to die soon, surely.

[awa355]

I'm due to die soon, surely.

If you do, can I have your bike ??????? I dont want your helmet, someone else can have that, but the bike would be nice.

[FJRider]

I work in customers roof cavities, alone. I work in very confined spaces (I once had to tape ducting to my leg and pull my body through a 6m cavity because there wasn't enough room for me to lie and have ducting beside me), I have no confined working training at all.

I work on ladders up to 5m high. No working at heights training, no ladder safety videos, nothing. Here's a ladder, lean it against that, climb. Training done.

I work in extreme temperatures, as cold as -5, highest was 66 degrees (+/-4 degrees accuracy if our temp probes). My training consists of the boss supplying squincher to add to our water. I had to do an induction to the company, questions of how to install, how to service etc. And a section on how to recognize heat stroke and how to prevent it. We had an installation manual which had the answers to every question, but I couldn't find the answers to what they wanted to know about heat stroke, so I guessed an answer. I got the second highest score in the franchise for the entire induction.

Never done a first aid course, yet I work with knives, power tools and in dangerous places.

I spend about 2-3 hours a day driving, no driver training (my contract specifically says I'm not allowed to race any work vehicle).

I'm due to die soon, surely.

Put your concerns / questions / issues ... in writing ... and E.mail it to your employer.

[Grumph]

...fuck this...I'm not getting up tomorrow, it's just too fucking dangerous... mark my words, if you get up tomorrow someone, somewhere will die... you should stay in bed too...in fact we should all have a fucking, World Safety Day, in bed...or would that be fucking dangerous too... pwobibly...

I seen to remember you reporting your wife being thrown out of bed in the first quake, chased round the room by the bed, and then given a good kicking by said bed....
Do you really want to risk that again ? Obviously going to bed is far too dangerous - look at the numbers who die there...