People who should not be left anywhere near electricity......

[-Matt]

Im an electrician in a factory.

This morning a Labourer ran over a 32A 3 phase trailing socket with a genie!!
Then picks up the cable with now 5 cores sticking out and no socket, shouts Might need your help.
At which point I shout at him to put the cable down, as I may be still live, so he chucks it down on a metal work bench next to where people were working
The RCD had tripped either from original impact, or chucking it on the worktop!
I personally gave him a -------ing for this.

Then later on this afternoon, he had managed to drive over another 3 phase extension cable, with the HO7 caught up in the Genie wheel, he was there trying to pull it out whilst still live.
At this point I left it for management to give him a massive -------ing.

I checked the cable after, and the copper on L1 was showing and damaged!


Does anyone else work along with idiots like this?

 

[FatAlan]

PS, what's a genie?

This is heading back to the Banana Splits and the Arabian Nights cartoon. ‘Size of a donkey!’ Hope that’s not too left field!

 

[Baddegg]

It’s a sad fact no matter how amusing that some people shouldn’t be allowed near anything not just electricity....

 

[Dustydazzler]

No electrician or electric related

But I once worked with a guy who was mopping a tiled floor slopping water everywhere and he walked over the section he just mopped and fell over.
He then did exactly the same thing the very next day.

Some people genuinely need saving from themselves

 

[Deleted account]

Im an electrician in a factory.

This morning a Labourer ran over a 32A 3 phase trailing socket with a genie!!
Then picks up the cable with now 5 cores sticking out and no socket, shouts Might need your help.
At which point I shout at him to put the cable down, as I may be still live, so he chucks it down on a metal work bench next to where people were working
The RCD had tripped either from original impact, or chucking it on the worktop!
I personally gave him a -------ing for this.

Then later on this afternoon, he had managed to drive over another 3 phase extension cable, with the HO7 caught up in the Genie wheel, he was there trying to pull it out whilst still live.
At this point I left it for management to give him a massive -------ing.

I checked the cable after, and the copper on L1 was showing and damaged!


Does anyone else work along with idiots like this?

Not sure why he should get a -------ing.

The cable should have been secured or alley cordoned off.

Clearly proper training has not been given.

Management and supervisors should get the roasting.

 

[David Prosser]

The trailing leads may well of

Im an electrician in a factory.

This morning a Labourer ran over a 32A 3 phase trailing socket with a genie!!
Then picks up the cable with now 5 cores sticking out and no socket, shouts Might need your help.
At which point I shout at him to put the cable down, as I may be still live, so he chucks it down on a metal work bench next to where people were working
The RCD had tripped either from original impact, or chucking it on the worktop!
I personally gave him a -------ing for this.

Then later on this afternoon, he had managed to drive over another 3 phase extension cable, with the HO7 caught up in the Genie wheel, he was there trying to pull it out whilst still live.
At this point I left it for management to give him a massive -------ing.

I checked the cable after, and the copper on L1 was showing and damaged!


Does anyone else work along with idiots like this?

I did in a high volume, fast pace meat processing plant. They kept leaving trailing leads, compressed air and various gas pipes across the factory floor. This was because the management system in place allowed for the constant moving of what should of been fixed equipment to suit production needs instead of coming up with a better production plan or simply better placed or more fixed outlets.

 

[edexlab]

No electrician or electric related

But I once worked with a guy who was mopping a tiled floor slopping water everywhere and he walked over the section he just mopped and fell over.
He then did exactly the same thing the very next day.

Some people genuinely need saving from themselves

Darwin's theory?

 

[Raeb]

Darwin's theory?

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[edexlab]

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"Survival of the fittest/ Smartest etc

I'm all for H&S btw I've seen a few bad incidents and the aftermath...

I have posted about this on another thread

My mate has a theory that H&S allows the idiot genes to continue on to future generations, by protecting the Homer Simpsons of the world.

ie stupid creatures were in the past superceded by the cleverer more adaptable ones, but now it'll end up with the idiots killing off the smarter people by the accidents they cause, eventually the idiots outnumbering the more intelligent people until they in turn are killed off by each other!

It's already started!
last year in Ireland a H&S man wanted someone I know to stop reaching up, no steps/ platforms onsite at all, so the lad was reaching up to grab a cable

He was standing on one foot at ground level up against a corner holding onto a steel frame for balance, leaning slightly as there was a bit of wall jutting out

Safety guy stopped him, He said he was concerned he could fall and he was going to check if it required him to wear a harness!

This from a bloke we saw most nights weaving and wobbling often into the road on his way home from the village pub after a skinful of Murphy's

There were plans afoot to get him one night put a harness on him and attach it to a lampost, for safety reasons .......

 

[StephenRowley]

"Survival of the fittest/ Smartest etc

I'm all for H&S btw I've seen a few bad incidents and the aftermath...

I have posted about this on another thread

My mate has a theory that H&S allows the idiot genes to continue on to future generations, by protecting the Homer Simpsons of the world.

ie stupid creatures were in the past superceded by the cleverer more adaptable ones, but now it'll end up with the idiots killing off the smarter people by the accidents they cause, eventually the idiots outnumbering the more intelligent people until they in turn are killed off by each other!

Problem is that a lot of the time the idiots end up taking others in the process.

Also a lot of h&s is nowt to with h&s and everything to do with not being sued.

 

[timhoward]

Does anyone else work along with idiots like this?

Yep. I was in my office and the phone rang. It was a chap who we called Fred as he looked exactly like Fred Flintstone. His English wasn't the best. "My light - she is too bright. You fix it?". err...that's a new one. Ok Ok I'm coming down.
Walk into workshop towards seriously bright light, bit like a nativity scene but with a Myford 7 lathe as the center piece. Then my eyes wandered to the three phase isolator, and I stare with immense suspicion at a clean and shiny white 2 core flex coming out of it. So I follow this flex the other way with sense of dread. Yep, a 3 pin socket. No Earth connection, and 415v. Genius. How that ordinary 100w bayonet bulb didn't explode is beyond me.

"But I joined blue to blue, and brown to red...why doesn't it work".
My translation skills were not up to explaining that, so I just pointed at the "2 versions of BS7671" sticker, told him not to EVER touch anything again, and showed him where he could more safely plug his lamp in.

 

[KennyKen]

Trailing leads shouldn’t be on the floor. EWP should have a spotter while moving to look out for potential hazards and more emphasis should be on training staff in positive communication. Hard barricade areas if leads need to be run on floor.

What’s your H&S bloke doing? Nothing.

 

[Markyd]

It has to be asked, why were 3 phase cables run in places they could be run over by vehicles?

Still waiting for the answer

 

[pirate]

I went to nice restaurant for lunch today. It was very hot weather (Spain) so the proprietors had set up some electric fans to cool the dining area. The first one was just at the entrance, and it was plugged into a socket on one side of the entrance, and positioned in the main dining area, so as you entered the restaurant you had to step about 2' in the air to get over the cable...
No drama, it worked fine...and the meal was delicious, btw

 

[GeorgeCooke]

so the proprietors had set up some electric fans to cool the dining area.

Fans don't cool rooms or areas. They heat them as the electricity used turns mostly to heat. They just blow air about. However this does cool bodies (people) provided the moving air is below the body temperature. If it is above body temperature the body will be cooked, like standing in front of a hair dryer.