Apprentices and Knives

[Jimmy Boy]

I have been working last couple weeks with a SE spark right nice bloke who has an apprentice...Guess what HE is NOT allowed to use a knife at college ? HAS this world gone FKN mad ? So he can go off and join the Army or have Sex but he can't ring a bit of SWA ?...Just gonna nut the door !

J

 

[Landril]

Mad aint it, H&S would have us jump through hoops until something needs doing in a hurry and they get paid to get the hell off site!!

 

[Marvo]

There was a thread a while ago here about the same subject of health and safety gone mad and whether carrying a knife in your toolbox is good or bad.

I thought those 'impossible to cut yourself' safety knives were all the rage nowadays.

 

[Plonker 3]

I remember when I started college about 18 yeas ago when I started college, you could only use/ take in a cable knife and not use a stanley knife.

Suppose it won't be long until they stop them using screwdrivers too as they can be a bugger when you stab yourself in then hand.

 

[PEG]

That apprentices' college needs a field trip round my way,if teenagers can have firearms,class A drugs,fighting dogs,tasers and CS gas,then the least they can give em' is a quality craft knife. With a safety cork fitted,obviously.

 

[ipf]

I have been working last couple weeks with a SE spark right nice bloke who has an apprentice...Guess what HE is NOT allowed to use a knife at college ? HAS this world gone FKN mad ? So he can go off and join the Army or have Sex but he can't ring a bit of SWA ?...Just gonna nut the door !

J

Have they banned wood chisels for apprentice joiners yet ?

 

[Adam W]

When I was at college we weren't allowed to take Stanley-type knives in - we had to use electricians' knives or the stupid blunt cobblers' knives they provided which may have been ok for spreading margarine but not much else.

 

[Deleted member 9648]

Was at the British Gypsum site at Mountfield recently......site induction stated strictly no stanley knives in your toolbox under threat of being removed from site if found with one.......no problem with a chainsaw as far as I could tell though.:shocked:

 

[Farmelectrics]

Your not allowed to use a Stanley nice on most blue book jobs in the uk either they give you stripping tool for the swa more dangerous if you ask me

 

[Jimmy Boy]

Whats a Blue Book job mate never heard of that

J

 

[Guitarist]

We were at the supermarket a while back and there was a money-off voucher in one of the local papers. One of the till ladies offered to cut it out for us, but after a few minutes of trying with a "plastic pair of safety scissors" she gave up and we ripped it out.

 

[Robotstar5]

Production operatives use stanley knives at work for opening cardboard boxes and we issue spare blades from the maint dept, previous H&S guy made us hand out a warning memo ("warning, sharp blades" etc.) with each one, what a waste of paper. Luckily present H&S guy is more practical and saves wasting paper!.

 

[ruston]

I cut myself on a newspaper the other day! Do you think we should ban them?

 

[Jimmy Boy]

I cut myself on a newspaper the other day! Do you think we should ban them?

Only the Sun..Under the trades description Act

J

 

[ruston]

Only the Sun..Under the trades description Act

J

Lol I would ban the lot . You can't even believe the date on the page.