H&S knob!!!

[Basher]

Just watching The One Show on telly and there's a H&S knob on showing us all the dangers and hazards associated with Christmas.

Apparently a candle on the table could seriously hurt you. You can put your back out putting the turkey in the oven.
Not forgetting that Christmas crackers are class 1 explosives, on a line with nitro glycerine!!!

Utter bollocks!

 

[In_The_Rough]

Didn't have the pleasure of seeing the programme but totally agree with the above. Most H&S people are Knobs in my opinion, have had far to many dealings with them at work. The best being when he tried to get people to wear gloves when taking your photocopy out of the copier as the paper might still be warm and burn your hands!!! Why has this Country turned into such a nanny state ?

 

[chrisd]

I work in a construction related industry so H&S always bemuses me. I was walking into town today whilst the car was being MOT'd and I passed a water company site.

One of the guys was tightening the bolts on the site fencing with a spanner as another guy had got out of his car to visit the site. He walked round the bit where the guy was still tightening the bolts " hi mate" he said " you do know you should be wearing your safety specs doing that"

I didn't catch the reply!


Chris

 

[Owen_Thomas_14]

I work on a construction site and i look forward to the H&S 'knob' coming round .... Id say shes about 25(max) and shes no slouch in the looks department

 

[In_The_Rough]

I work on a construction site and i look forward to the H&S 'knob' coming round .... Id say shes about 25(max) and shes no slouch in the looks department

Lucky you. However the sad thing here is that she is probably paid a fair bit more than all you lads out on the site working your arses off and freezing your nuts. Still nowt wrong with a bit of eye candy

 

[stevek1969]

Didn't have the pleasure of seeing the programme but totally agree with the above. Most H&S people are Knobs in my opinion, have had far to many dealings with them at work. The best being when he tried to get people to wear gloves when taking your photocopy out of the copier as the paper might still be warm and burn your hands!!! Why has this Country turned into such a nanny state ?

We got an email stating the Xmas hazards,the company i work for are h&s daft to be honest,the guy who does it now is not to be to be fair but the guy before was a total knob,he'd report you for anything then try and be your mate after.

 

[In_The_Rough]

Didn't have the pleasure of seeing the programme but totally agree with the above. Most H&S people are Knobs in my opinion, have had far to many dealings with them at work. The best being when he tried to get people to wear gloves when taking your photocopy out of the copier as the paper might still be warm and burn your hands!!! Why has this Country turned into such a nanny state ?

We got an email stating the Xmas hazards,the company i work for are h&s daft to be honest,the guy who does it now is not to be to be fair but the guy before was a total knob,he'd report you for anything then try and be your mate after.

I know the kind you mean ours is o.k to be fair now but I get the feeling that they just invent stuff to keep themselves in a job and to look important.

 

[ScienceBoy]

One of my roles is to support H&S, im trained to level 3 in a few different things... tbh working with the chemicals I do all day is a little different to doin up a nut with a spannner (I am assuming that was the reply)

We take it quite seriously in the labs but in the office we leave it to the HR guy as it is mostly common sense, no need for us to write a COSHH for tippex

 

[Basher]

no need for us to write a COSHH for tippex

Every chemical that enters our place has to be accompanied with a COSHH assessment, be it HCl or Loctite Threadlok.
Prior to any maintenance work being carried out, an up to date risk assessment and method statement must be produced before a permit to work can be issued.

It can be different when it's an emergency breakdown and production is being lost.....double standards when it suits!

 

[In_The_Rough]

no need for us to write a COSHH for tippex

Every chemical that enters our place has to be accompanied with a COSHH assessment, be it HCl or Loctite Threadlok.
Prior to any maintenance work being carried out, an up to date risk assessment and method statement must be produced before a permit to work can be issued.

It can be different when it's an emergency breakdown and production is being lost.....double standards when it suits!

Incredible isn't it how they just bend the rules to suit our place is a swine for that, not in H&S mateers but on general company procedures.

 

[stevek1969]

no need for us to write a COSHH for tippex

Every chemical that enters our place has to be accompanied with a COSHH assessment, be it HCl or Loctite Threadlok.
Prior to any maintenance work being carried out, an up to date risk assessment and method statement must be produced before a permit to work can be issued.

It can be different when it's an emergency breakdown and production is being lost.....double standards when it suits!

Our place is the same,production is king im afraid ,the problem with most of these guys is they've never worked in industry and don't use common sense ,everthing they no is from a HSE manual,i'm doing my NEBOSH HSE course just now thru my work but have worked in industry for 26 years so kind of have an inkling of whats going on,HSE is mostly common sense after all.

 

[ScienceBoy]

Our H&S manager worked his way up from a lab tech over 25 years ago, he has worked in many environments including production and processes as well as many laboratory settings. He pretty much makes the right choice all the time, so we can do our job safely in the labs but without piling up paperwork for those in the office who would see it as a waste of time.

I have seen an MSDS for things like tippex but in my experience (18 months) I know what things need a COSHH and what doesn't. I still hear stories of many people who ignore basic common sense then wear a hazmat to clip their nails.

 

[GB72]

My wife is a 'H&S Knob' wth years in the construction industry and now works on power stations. She always seems to take a more practical approach to health & safety and always seemed to get on pretty well with the people on site. At the end of the day she is only tryng to stop people injuring themselves.

 

[Region3]

Why has this Country turned into such a nanny state ?

It's because of all the knobs that will sue for the smallest little thing even when it's their fault for being stupid.

The weirdest one we've had at our place is not being able to use step-ladders until you've been 'trained'.

 

[In_The_Rough]

Why has this Country turned into such a nanny state ?

It's because of all the knobs that will sue for the smallest little thing even when it's their fault for being stupid.

The weirdest one we've had at our place is not being able to use step-ladders until you've been 'trained'.

Ah yes the famous training procedures I know them well

 

[Leftie]

I worked within the construction industry for more years than I care to remember.

Whilst the intent of H & S is to be applauded, as far as I'm concerned it's main function (in private companies at least) is ass protection. If there is a major problem, theoretically the MD/owner/head of H & S/whoever is ultimately responsible. Put in place a whole department issuing notices, directives, tool box talks, H & S plans, etc then, if it's done to the book, the poor guy who is injured or killed gets the blame.

 

[USER1999]

Any step ladders at my work are padlocked to the wall to stop untrained personnel from endangering them selves using them with out training. As a result, we balance on gas lift chairs to change light bulbs. Safer? Not really.

 

[surefire]

Ahh, the good old health and safety knob!

But have you ever met the copyright and patent protection knob?

Where I work, I am pretty much supposed to report anything I see, hear, smell or touch, just in case it inadvertently affects my work, and so causes my employer to get sued for copyright infringement. I'm also encouraged to patent absolutely anything I come up with. Probably should be patenting this forum reply!

 

[viscount17]

in days of yore when MOD was encouraged to become 'proactive' (how I hate that word!) in H&S matters each squadron or department was obliged to appoint an H&S rep. this was usually a senior rate (nco), no training was ever given but you were required to carry out both regular and irregular inspections. if you were too diligent in your application, or found a particularly awkward problem, the solution was always to appoint someone else.
I proved that the squadron had to either move the training cell or move the visiting aircraft line as it exceeded the permitted db level by some margin. Got out of that job nicely!

 

[ScienceBoy]

Why has this Country turned into such a nanny state ?

It's because of all the knobs that will sue for the smallest little thing even when it's their fault for being stupid.

The weirdest one we've had at our place is not being able to use step-ladders until you've been 'trained'.

Ladder training is very important!