Stanley knive and craft type knives

[maddfridge]

hi everyone

A company who i have done work for in the past and the company i now have Banned all forms of stanley knives following a nasty incident with a very bad cut to an operatives leg.

he has recovered ok

i know that ck do an electriicans knife and you can swa ringing type tools but what have any of your gents out there done to overcome stripping swa cable without having to spend 70 plus quid on a ringing tools you may only use once a year in our case for example?

cheers
maddfridge

 

[Des 56]

Put 2 fingers up to the morons who introduced this daft rule and get the stanley knife out

How can you ban any legitamate tool
The overwhelming number of tools are dangerous in idiots hands
We are pampered beyond belief by these absolute morons in the H+S brigade

I despair sometimes at what fills their brain cavities

 

[Amp David]

Do electricians knives not cut you like a stanley then?

 

[Deleted member 9648]

Wot Des said.....complete and utter common sense.

 

[telectrix]

next thing is they'll be banning scalpels in operating theatres. bloody muppets.

 

[ruston]

It'll be the humble hammer next , maybe if we put a bit of foam around it......... Those pad saws look a bit ify to me too.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Old rule with knives: ALWAYS WORK AWAY FROM YOURSELF AND OTHERS and dont let others distract you whilst working. should be about it really. This "industry" that is health and safety is weighing down on the shoulders of real industrys like ours and i think its getting to the point where we cant do our jobs without some sniveling little busy body jumping put from the bushes and reporting you for a breach of some stupid rule they`v invented..............

 

[littleeley]

muppets indeed they must be as in practice you would be more likely to cut or injur yourself with a blunt knife than a sharp one due to the effort that you would put into the cutting object so personaly use a sharp penknife just to keep the peace what is this country coming too

 

[Deleted member 26818]

Heard this rule a number of times on various sites over the last few years (probably about 5 years now).
The most recent being the Olympic site a month or so back.
Had to have a permit to use any knife at alll.

 

[Guest123]

What about one of them there knipex stripping knives.....

KNIPEX|9855|KNIFE, CABLE SHEATH | Farnell United Kingdom

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Could you not use a plumbers pipe cutting wheel to cut round the armoured....still have to strip the jacket of though with a knife .........

 

[Sintra]

Heard this rule a number of times on various sites over the last few years (probably about 5 years now).
The most recent being the Olympic site a month or so back.
Had to have a permit to use any knife at alll.

On the olympic site the only knives you can use are auto retracting and then only with a RAMS and a permit.


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[ipf]

I'll stick with my kukri ( or call for Crocodile Dundee)

 

[telectrix]

it's nothing new. i had my waffen SS dagger banned off site in 1994.

 

[mogga]

Bacho do one that retracts when your not holding it as for the "Stupidity" of HnS on site most of the HnS problems are due to probably 5% not using tools correctly resulting in said tools being banned Iv seen dry wallers with a shielded blade board cutter He said it was weird at first and took a bit of getting use to due to it cutting full way through board

the stupidest one iv heard is RIGGER boots being banned due to lack of ankle support ffs Im sure I could come up with at least 1 reason to "BANN" 90% of my tool kit on some "Possible" h n s infringement