Health and Safety

Hello all, Noted this in our local paper, spot he hazard.

Bob

No high viz jacket

none at all its just posed for the camera

You can do anything (within reason) if it has had a written risk assessment carried out for the operation prior to the operation and, if required, put suitable control measures in place. Complaints about health and safety are often made by people who have not been involved in it to any degree. The biggest issue we had at work was with people who thought they could do a mental risk assessment and then do anything they wanted because of this mental exercise. They missed the written bit off and believed they could get away with it.

Martin C

No hard hat, no high viz jacket, no steel toe cap boots, gloves ok if latex can't really see AND her hair is a massive no, no! Just a posed picture.

Tony

Edited By Tony Pratt 1 on 23/01/2023 11:00:41

That it's now 2023 and you've missed your chance?

Edited By blowlamp on 23/01/2023 11:00:49

Oh dear!

More like "spot the hazards".

I can just imagine the cringing in machine-shop and office alike, when that was published.

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My work involved using and looking after an open-topped, fresh-water laboratory tank 5m deep with no shallow end, ladder or other easy exit.

We had to suspend the test-pieces from trolleys travelling on rails between two cross-gantries having a hand-rail on the non-work side only; the gantry access being a two-foot high climb up from the laboratory floor. None of it was easy or safe because the arrangement cobbled together the trolleys from an earlier, smaller tank with very different, far easier, and safe access.

One day a glossy trade newspaper was published, featuring our place, with a big photo of a smiling Managing Director and some High-Up From The Customer, both standing in their best suits up on one of these gantries.

One does not like to remind one's MD that he approved Standing Orders that no-one climbs onto these walk-ways without wearing a life-jacket...

Yes obviously a posed pic. Advertising rarely has anything to do with reality. But the unrestrained hair would be the only thing I would worry about.

Don't know about UK law but here high vis is not required in workplaces like small machine shops where there is no truck traffic etc. or overhead cranes that might drop a load on a slumbering employee camouflaged in blue twill.

Ah, but the MD of course is not "no one". He is the MD. That's different.

Same hazard as wen it was posted last week on the forum

Oh, and I thought it was all about women in the work place !

Hi, I wouldn't be surprised if it was a cut and paste picture, with the girl and the message just pasted over a workshop photo. So no hazard, but not a good safety advert for the applicants.

Regards Nick.

Didn't give a monkeys at the last place I worked. If the MD or other 'higher up' flouted H&S rules that they had approved. I would tell them quite forcefully to remove themselves from the area. I was a Lowly FLT driver.

I've cut my hands more than once on cutters just sitting there minding their own buisiness. I cannot comment on machine guards, because there might be one swung out of the way for setting up. The gloves look like disposable ones, not likely to get caught in machinery and drag fingers in. A hair net was forced on one of our apprentices by me back in the 70's, more for laughs than safety in his case.

I and all my mates had to wear a snood in the machine shop when I was an apprentice safety glasses were mandatory and gloves totally forbidden. The picture of a finger and all the tendons pulled out of the forearm lives with me more than fifty years later as a warning not to wear gloves when operating machinery, in particular a drilling machine. The picture of a scrotum with dermatitis was a warning not to keep oily wipers in your pocket, I imagine girls have a slightly different problem in that area.

Mike

Edited By Mike Poole on 16/04/2023 19:29:28