Health and safety fools !

[Aindowsimon]

On a site re-wire secondary school 10 sparks and 2 ceiling guys , health and safety guy comes along ...... No radios aloud incase fire alarm goes off ! ......... Wtf!!!! It's a radio in the event of fire alarm going off I will assume its a false alarm as per f..kng usual and continue working ( witch is 10hr days 7 days a week I mite add ) them hours no radio I'm likely to start the fire in boardem or cos the voices in my head toll'd me to cos I've got sod all else to listen to !

 

[Aindowsimon]

Wot I ment to ask is, has anyone else getting pathetic confrontations with b.ll end's that has nothing better to do than make a hard days work harder ??

 

[KFH]

Get a pair of headphones and tell them they are electronic ear defenders.

 

[Aindowsimon]

I've got something to tel him allright probably following an uppercut . I can see the argument for no earphones they cancel all other noise ... Just not my lovely radio

 

[Silly Sausage]

H&S aside, I think if you want to listen to a radio at work, someone, probably the the employer, requires a licence.
It's infringement of copyright.

HMMMM!!!!!

 

[Tim]

On a site re-wire secondary school 10 sparks and 2 ceiling guys , health and safety guy comes along ...... No radios aloud incase fire alarm goes off ! ......... Wtf!!!! It's a radio in the event of fire alarm going off I will assume its a false alarm as per f..kng usual and continue working ( witch is 10hr days 7 days a week I mite add ) them hours no radio I'm likely to start the fire in boardem or cos the voices in my head toll'd me to cos I've got sod all else to listen to !

This post has cheered up my night, im half way through a 17hr shift and feel like starting a fire just to get out of work.

 

[Adam W]

I can see site radios becoming a thing of the past because banning them is something the H&S jobsworth can say he's implemented, like making everyone wear hard hats and hi viz everywhere at all times.

H&S Policy

• No drugs, alcohol or smoking on site
• PPE including hard hat, hi viz, steel toecaps, safety glasses and ear protection to be worn at all times on site
• No skylarking around, including anything which looks fun at all
• No radios
• No farting
• Permits to breathe are to be obtained from the H&S officer

It's only going to get worse as they come up with more to try to outdo each other. Give it a couple of years and we'll be trying to strip cables with butter knives. Butter knives made of plastic.

 

[trev]

What I usually find is the ones that can't work without a radio usually have the noisiest tools which drown it out.
Either that or they listen to the kind of crap my daughter likes but have their tinny little radios hooked up to 14kw PA systems which makes me want to kill them because they don't know anything about music.
Music is about melody and harmony and lyrics, not just repeating the same banal phrase over and over on top of a repetitive bass and drum line which was sampled from a song recorded by a proper musician 20 years ago.

 

[Marvo]

H&S where I am is obviously nothing like it is in the UK. I managed to have my first run-in with them on a large site last year. I arrived on site after stopping for a lunchtime swim. I was wearing flip flops and boardshorts, I had a borrowed hard hat but no reflective vest, it took them less than half an hour to request I left site

 

[Paul.M]

New school wire beginning of the year and we was told "No ladders are allowed on site at all under any circumstance, because they are dangerous."

Fine, the sus ceiling we are doing is too high for a step up and too low for a platform? Give me a magic carpet and the job will get done.

The foreman turned his back whilst we got the lights and fire alarm in. I agree that H&S has its place but not when we can all see that it is safe to work. Some people need to take a reality pill.

 

[trev]

When I was in Saudi the indian and philipino guys idea of safety footwear was socks with their flip flops.

 

[jpaul]

sorry to be a pain but how do you post a new thread? i'm new to this. Cheers

 

[Marvo]

Sandals are generally okay if they have a fully enclosed toe section, apparently flip flops are on the wrong side of the line. I've got some real eye-opening photos of some of the things that go on at the sites I've worked on. If I remember tomorrow I'll grab a few off my work computer and post them up.

 

[Thefailsafe2012]

A site I worked on last year operated a non offensive calendar policy


It was awful, how were we supposed to work without a daily dose of July's Jugs?!?!

 

[Aindowsimon]

Reality head but . It's really getting to me I think you guys are all right ! There needs to be a stand for common sense , it's ok for these h&s guys coming to site for 30min max wearing the brightest high vis! the highest riggers ! ( with walking socks over trousers of course ) gloves on ! Glasses ! And ear defenders incase some one raises there voice just to look around picking on me listening to radio 2 , coming to site walking around ( not lifting a solitary tool ) the most risky thing he did was signing in + the coward saw me with radio walked away got the boss to come tel me whilst he was behind him , waiting to give his pathetic excuse that it's incase we can't hear the fire alarm