How safe is your workplace?

[Voltaire]

have adminstered by more shiney arses who would not have a clue.. as well have talked to the wall.

That's me that is.
Turn up on my site and its:
Safety Video
Site induction
Quiz
Photo for security
SWMS
Permit to Work
and that's just for the " 5 minute jobs"

and if you don't like I do the " Contactors van inspection"

After 4 years the first aid kit has yet to be used....touch SWMS

[trustme]

Funny how two responses that give the same answer can be delivered so differently.

I'll twist one of those bands tomorrow on a spare extinguisher I have by my desk and see what happens. If it works then I've learned something. Nevertheless, I'll still be cutting the plastic when extinguishers are installed. I ambushed a colleague one day, gave him a small extinguisher and told him he had 10 seconds to get it ready to use. A couple of seconds to look at it, a couple of seconds to try and pull the pin out and then the rest of the time trying to break the plastic security band. Unsuccesfully.

Clearly a lack of suitable training ! The employer has been totally negligent & deserves a right royal boot up the arse , he should be burned art the stake for placing his workers at risk . The safety person if he had an ounce of integrity would just fall on his sword .
I'm not having a crack at you Oakie, just the cynic in me rising.

[trustme]

SWMS , music to my ears. We have just done a job where we had to sign the RED FOLDER prepared by the Safety Doris that contained all the generic swms that were relevant to our job. Not one of them was relevent to our task, we did our own task analysis. Doris has started to develop more encompassing swm, 28 pages so far.

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

[Oakie]

Clearly a lack of suitable training ! The employer has been totally negligent & deserves a right royal boot up the arse , he should be burned art the stake for placing his workers at risk . The safety person if he had an ounce of integrity would just fall on his sword .
I'm not having a crack at you Oakie, just the cynic in me rising.

Stop right there! Burning at the stake and falling on my sword would not comply with HSE regs!

[Oakie]

Doris has started to develop more encompassing swm, 28 pages so far.

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

Agreed. Our sister organisation's Contractor Induction document is 30 pages long. The one I developed for our place is 3 pages of speaking points ... and that 3 pages is the maximum. It can be reduced depending on location worked in and length of time estimated on site. Looking at somewhere between 2 minutes for say a new locksmith coming to change one lock through to about 25 minutes perhaps for the full monty version for a significant project (which I'm still waiting to do one for).

[Smifffy]

Interesting thread, dismissing the dumb fuck comments ( Akzle)

I work at a major port, driving a straddle and working on a ship occasionally when required, often in the middle of the night when it's cold and pissing down.

Most of you have no idea what a dangerous environment means until you get up on the ship and start getting your hands dirty.

Ya reckon?

[Akzle]

Funny how two responses that give the same answer can be delivered so differently.

I'll twist one of those bands tomorrow on a spare extinguisher I have by my desk and see what happens. If it works then I've learned something. Nevertheless, I'll still be cutting the plastic when extinguishers are installed. I ambushed a colleague one day, gave him a small extinguisher and told him he had 10 seconds to get it ready to use. A couple of seconds to look at it, a couple of seconds to try and pull the pin out and then the rest of the time trying to break the plastic security band. Unsuccesfully.

youre a fycken hazard and your work mate's a moron.

Maybe you need to do some fire extinguisher training

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[Edbear]

Ya reckon?

Working with your wife in the office..?

[Big Dog]

Ax is not too far from the mark here.
If you are subject to building wofs and your inspector actually checks you fail if less than 2/3 of your approved fire extinguishers display correct servicing info and said plastic seal. Otherwise how is anyone to know that timmy already used the extinguisher on the fire he didn't report?

They should also carry labelling in at least English and pictures showing how to remove the seal.


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[Big Dog]

Men generally don't read instructions during an event which is what makes training so important.

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[Grumph]

Had to laugh last night at the oversight which has left the "other livestock" in the new act. We've been pedigree cat breeders for decades but if that section stays in one of us is going to have to go on a course at the gov'ts expense....
The wife has selflessly volounteered to go.

Could have been worse, we could have raised worm farms...

[Waihou Thumper]

Did working at heights full day training today and then found out it doesn't include harness inspection anymore. That's an advanced course now with an extra days training required.

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?

[Waihou Thumper]

Our workplace is reasonably safe although I have to say that ... I'm the Health and Safety guy. We've averaged an accident every 23 days over the past 8 years for a staff of about 90. Nothing worse than a broken bone in a foot, a couple of broken toes and a cracked rib though. Slips and trips account for a bit over 30% of our accidents.

Are you taking the piss? reasonably safe?

[TheDemonLord]

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