stripping cables , SWA etc

[eckersecker]

I work at a factory and they have just banned the use of all knives on site. I have side cutters, but can anyone recommend a tool for nicking ordinary flex to get outer sheath off as I used to use my knife. Also is there a tool that works for stripping the inner and outer sheaths when doing SWA?
I'm guessing I need at least 2 different tools.

 

[Des 56]

As said, a sharp knife is .... essential as far as I'm concerned. I have cut my finger with it but a bit of tape and a couple of days and you'd never know. Thats partly because it was (and always is kept) almost surgically sharp. The cut wasso clean it just pressed back together.

About twenty years ago I did a stint as a carpet fitter. The bloke training me's hands' were a tapestry of scars, in fact I nearly passed out once when I saw the cut he had on his thumb - he just shrugged and gaffer taped it up, it healed up like all the others, he was more worried about getting blood on the skirting.

It is crazy. The only reason I am talking like this is because I work for myself and am a bit older. They'll never take my knife.

What a load of cobblers.

How will the carpet fitters manage when these buffoons get their ideas accepted by voting a ban on the sharp and pointy s.

I can picture a carpet fitter with a circular saw,but no doubt that would only be a stop gap

 

[Superspark23]

I recon they should ban tea and coffee in offices and in fact any liquid, they could spill the hot drink over them and burning them and worse knock it over and spill it over the expensive office equipment! And then before going for a cuppa they should read the risk assessment for it. And sign a book to understand the risks involved, just encase they decide to sue the company they work for. When they burn their self's.

 

[telectrix]

and their pens and pencils. they're sharp. let them write their silly rules with a 1/2" wide felt tip.

 

[UNG]

If everything in the workplace was analysed by some of these H&S bods they would find an issue with all of it and nothing would get done. In the average toolbox a knife is just one of many items that can be perceived as dangerous that can inflict injury or harm, if they ban screwdrivers because they are sharp then that will be the slippery slope to banning electricity as we cannot tighten the terminals

Worked on a site once where the previous H&S officer was fired as no maintenance or capital work was done in two and a half years because he had the site tied in knots with his H&S rules and found reason to stop nearly all of the proposed work

Let's face it actually travelling to work is dangerous as there is a slight possibility of being in a fatal collision but nobody has banned that yet

 

[Engineer54]

Let's face it actually travelling to work is dangerous as there is a slight possibility of being in a fatal collision but nobody has banned that yet

Watch this space!! It won't be too long!!!

 

[ipf]

and their pens and pencils. they're sharp. let them write their silly rules with a 1/2" wide felt tip.

Let them suck on lead!!

 

[Geordie Spark]

my firm banned stanley knives of all types we use knipex knives now, but in my opinion a blunt knife is more dangerous than a stanley blade because with a stanley you dont have to put so much pressure when you cut...

Agreed.

I was a Training Instructor in an engineering company, and I can honestly say I saw more injuries caused by folk struggling to make a blunt tool work than a sharp one.

 

[eckersecker]

Come on, tell me , ....so what's the reason they are using behind this daft knife ban then??

Spring loaded knives were ok with cut proof gloves, but it has now been decided that the knife may slip and slice into the leg. On the machines the material produced has to be cut off, they banned the use of blades for this a while back and use a boomerang shaped thing. The engineering part of the works were ok to use the spring loaded knives with gloves but they have now decided to go the whole hog.

 

[Guest111]

tell them to ban biro.s too,I,ve been shown how to kill with one,far more dangerous than your average knife,and if they banned biro,s you won,t have so much paperwork lol

 

[gottahugenoggin]

next on their list will be pointy test probes!

 

[Octopus]

cpc farnell do a tool for rotary cutting flex etc. part no TLAB063

Available from CPC Farnell today until 23.59 with free delivery.

 

[BlueToBits]

I can understand that some industries have banned certain tools and methods. They don't want to be sued for any accidents that could be attributed to lack of training, supervision or instruction. Our industry is all about using tools, for which many years of training, supervision and instruction is included within the electrical apprenticeship. Surgeons, are allowed to use fixed blades because, without exception, they are all trained to use them. Electricians are now not allowed to use 'Stanley' knives because there has become a significant percentage who have not been properly trained, some have no skill training whatsoever. That is not to say that I have never cut myself, but If I followed my training every time, this would never happen.

 

[Knobhead]

Now there’s a good one, surgeons are using sharp implements. Just wait until the HSE gets their hands on that one!

As has been said, the thing about being a tradesman is being trained in the safe use of your tools. If someone cuts their selves with a Stanley knife I’ll put money on it being blunt.

 

[Marvo]

If someone cuts their selves with a Stanley knife I’ll put money on it being blunt.

Usually the knife isn't sharp but occasionally the user isn't too sharp either.