workplace safety

[Gage]

Something I noticed when driving past a BT Infinity box when a guy was working in it...there were wires absolutely everywhere inside, it looked like someone had poured gallons of spaghetti in there, truly ridiculous. Not sure why I said this here but I did.

 

[Knobhead]

Years back as an apprentice I helped build a Solicon logic panel. 100’s of octal bases that the units plugged in to. All soldered connections, neatly loomed and along came the designer. Pointed to a small note at the bottom of the drawings. “All wiring SPIDER WEB.”
To go from unit 20 in row 11 to unit 8 in row 75, you went in a straight line.

We tried it, abject failure. Start again!

 

[gnuuser]

the company hired a new structural engineer who came highly recommended.
today while checking out the ventilation in the building he was checking out a large exhaust fan.
this fan was run by a 3 horse 3 phase motor and had solid aluminium blades.
rather than shut the fan down and jog it to see the rotation direction the twit stuck his forefinger in the blade cage and lost half of his finger. WTF. major brain fart there.
says a lot for the college he attended doesn't it.

hell most of us older sparks learned common sense early in life from the end of our fathers work shoe applied to the backside

 

[Engineer54]

the company hired a new structural engineer who came highly recommended.
today while checking out the ventilation in the building he was checking out a large exhaust fan.
this fan was run by a 3 horse 3 phase motor and had solid aluminium blades.
rather than shut the fan down and jog it to see the rotation direction the twit stuck his forefinger in the blade cage and lost half of his finger. WTF. major brain fart there.
says a lot for the college he attended doesn't it.

hell most of us older sparks learned common sense early in life from the end of our fathers work shoe applied to the backside

Are you back in the States now, or still in the Middle East?? Or maybe i have confused you with another American spark on the Forum??

 

[shanky887614]

Are you back in the States now, or still in the Middle East?? Or maybe i have confused you with another American spark on the Forum??

don't you mean a slipper/belt?

truth be told though see many idiots that im surprised are still breathing and ive only been on big sites for a year

 

[gnuuser]

An American friend sent me this, he was quite proud of it.

aye tony this is what we have to work with.
i wish we had boards more like what you guys use in the uk
i personally like the design much better