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    Quote Originally Posted by russd7 View Post
    second part of my job, health and safety co-ordinator, best part, taking a factory that had pretty much no health and safety to passing an audit with flying colours,
    worst part, trying to convince people that health and safety is about attitude and does not actually make their job harder.
    Well done. I know how much work goes into an audit. Persevere with the people. It's a hell of a buzz when someone who was always 'anti' finally sees the light.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Oakie View Post
    Well done. I know how much work goes into an audit. Persevere with the people. It's a hell of a buzz when someone who was always 'anti' finally sees the light.
    its not so much anti, its more arrogance of "I know better so it doesn't apply to me" and the small town attitude of "oh that only applies to big cities and big companies."(actually had that said to me by a couple of the other staff members)
    owners want health and safety but don't/wont put the foot down and say do it or walk, can be frustrating but I look back and generally a lot has improved

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    Quote Originally Posted by russd7 View Post
    its not so much anti, its more arrogance of "I know better so it doesn't apply to me" and the small town attitude of "oh that only applies to big cities and big companies."(actually had that said to me by a couple of the other staff members)
    owners want health and safety but don't/wont put the foot down and say do it or walk, can be frustrating but I look back and generally a lot has improved
    Just read them some of the penalties for directors personally* in the HSWA and watch shit change. Its the only thing that has changed the attitude to safety in NZ IMO

    *including jail time!
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    Quote Originally Posted by bluninja View Post
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    Best bit, good people around the workplace, being able to make a difference in people's lives., a window seat, cuddly toys on my shelf and a stress ball.

    worst Bit: vendors who charge like a wounded bull for health software that is 20 years out of date and doesn't integrate with other stuff. Managers that play buzzword bingo...we are being rebranded Digital Services....we have a few analogue phone lines, but computers have been digital since Charles Babbage and Cloud is just other peoples computers
    Ahhh. I sense you are talking about ISoft. I had the misfortune to deal with them as a vendor about 10 years ago. They were 20 years out of date then, and charged like a wounded bull...

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    Good: Pays mortgage, services Ducati, buys guitars, no face to face with my company's customers

    Bad: Internal Customers, "Corporate Attire", too many squares in the office who gauge their importance by how expensive their tie was
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    Quote Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase View Post
    Just read them some of the penalties for directors personally* in the HSWA and watch shit change. Its the only thing that has changed the attitude to safety in NZ IMO

    *including jail time!
    The owners know what the penalties are, problem is they have had two incidents investigated in the past, one was before I started working for them and one about 12mnths after I started working for them, they got off pretty much scot free on both, the second incident a colleague cut his thumb off on a table saw, I was the only one in the workshop when it happened and had to suggested to that particular colleague that the way he was using the saw is unsafe as had another colleague that worked there at the time, but he knew better as he had done some night classes (arrogance that I mentioned in my first post), I was not interviewed by the OSH investigator at all as part of the investigation, the only reason the company had any thing to show OSH was because I had written up a basic H&S manual as soon as I started (there was no H&S system in place at all), the only thing the company had to do was put us through an apprenticeship, consequently I am now Technically a qualified furniture maker.
    the employee got off scott free.

    the only thing the company learnt was that as a small company they would only get a smack on the hand

    I got made H&S co Ordinator when the new penalties came in but that same employee is still there and still doing the same old shit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WALRUS View Post
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    Good: Pays mortgage, services Ducati, buys guitars, no face to face with my company's customers

    Bad: Internal Customers, "Corporate Attire", too many squares in the office who gauge their importance by how expensive their tie was
    What you need is a decent earthquake. There has been a massive change in "office culture" in this town since then. I rarely wear a suit these days, have worn a tie twice in the last four years (funerals both times) and if I ride the motorbike to work I wear jeans and boots. even way stuffier law firms than ours seem to go for suits or blazers/pants and shirt no tie now. Also a huge (entirely money driven) shift to open plan offices (which suckdiddlyuck). If you dont see customers/clients and spend your day in an office dealing with people on the other side of a computer screen there is no reason whatever you cant wear fishnets, a loincloth and a gold sequinned tanktop to work. All that other stuff is bullshit. Took a major natural disaster to show us that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase View Post
    If you dont see customers/clients and spend your day in an office dealing with people on the other side of a computer screen there is no reason whatever you cant wear fishnets, a loincloth and a gold sequinned tanktop to work. All that other stuff is bullshit.
    odd i can think of a few reasons.you big city folk
    Where i used to work the for a pretty big stuff SOE the CEO took to wearing jeans and shirt everyone followed suit.
    I am expected to wear approved colour dress pants now and a corporate sourced 1 or 3 designs shirt. kind of sucks.
    Open plan offices is old hat, hot desking is the new de-clutterd look.
    I walked into one of our offices in a provincial city the other day and was amazed to see old school office cuby hole dividers ful of notes etc . It was like a rabbit warren.
    The hot desking saves on office supples, no need for everyone to have stapler etc. Be no good for anyone that wants to have private conversations though.
    I mainly work out of home now.
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    Best- Outdoors with views most of time and playing with variety of big boys toys that many only ever dream of using... employer always investing in upskilling and training plus safe work culture

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    Quote Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase View Post
    there is no reason whatever you cant wear fishnets, a loincloth and a gold sequinned tanktop to work. .
    just the usual then

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    Quote Originally Posted by JimO View Post
    just the usual then
    It was what I was wearing when I posted.
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    Quote Originally Posted by husaberg View Post
    I am expected to wear approved colour dress pants now and a corporate sourced 1 or 3 designs shirt. kind of sucks.
    The only MUST WEAR items in my job is a life-jacket and steel toed Gumboots. Everything else is optional.

    But as the air temperature is usually between 6-10 degrees (C) ... fashion and frills don't feature. Getting wet is common (if not usual) so common sense applies.

    But the view out the office window (if you can see anything) changes daily.

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