Went to B&Q Aylesbury the other day, was told i need to reverse back down the road, over a pedestrain crossing, and into the exit of one of the busy car parks while making sure no one came out of the other car park exit opposite, then drive down the duel carriage way exit before finally reveresing back up, over the pedestrian crossing, past the two car park exits and back to were i started.
“And we are not allowed to stop the traffic or watch you back due to helth and safty”
loopyjuice:
or how about the man who bought a campervan set the cruise control and got up to make a coffee, only for the van to crash and him successfully sueing the manufacturer because he wasnt told he still had to steer the van whilst the cruise control was on
I think the rot truly set in when they let the kind of people who believe this sort of crap communicate with the rest of the world via the Internet.
mucker85:
Make sure you don’t get the wrong colour hat.
I was refused entry to a site because my hard hat was the same colour as the ones all the bosses wear.
I couldn’t believe it, talk about tiny mind.
I had to borrow a hat from their security guard before they’d let me on.
I thought Cameron was supposed to be doing something about this foolery?
Maybe Cleggy is holding the upper hand on that one.
loopyjuice:
or how about the man who bought a campervan set the cruise control and got up to make a coffee, only for the van to crash and him successfully sueing the manufacturer because he wasnt told he still had to steer the van whilst the cruise control was on
I think the rot truly set in when they let the kind of people who believe this sort of crap communicate with the rest of the world via the Internet.
The Winnebago incident (in various guises since the 1970’s) is false, however the McD coffee incident(s) is true.
I think campervans and all trucks should be fitted with the Autodrive system found on yankee trucks, (Homer Simpson had one fitted).
A couple of minor examples from my experience, Whilst being side tipped (full 26t load) I was asked to level off the suspension for the last 4 IBC’s, I asked for my keys back, reply came back “oh but you can’t have your keys whilst being tipped” I let the forkie think for a while before he said here you go . Another example is at Tesco at Worksop/Barlboro’ (other places do this too) the designated walkway from the bays is right in front of parked units, why not put it 3 metres in front, then your in view of any driver wanting to pull off a bay, not that I’d walk in front of a unit with a running engine without catching the drivers eye anyhow.
I wonder how many H&S bods actually consult the peeps that have to do the job that they’re ‘policing’.
Thank god i spend most of my time on the continent…none of all that bs
Having said that was it not the French and Belgians who wanted all this stuff brought into the workplace in the first place■■? As usual it seems we in the UK are the only ones who follow these laws to the letter (and obviously beyond also)
mucker85:
Make sure you don’t get the wrong colour hat.
I was refused entry to a site because my hard hat was the same colour as the ones all the bosses wear.
I couldn’t believe it, talk about tiny mind.
I had to borrow a hat from their security guard before they’d let me on.
I thought Cameron was supposed to be doing something about this foolery?
Maybe Cleggy is holding the upper hand on that one.
I was working in and out of BASF Ludwigshafen and it was very rare you had to wear a green chemical suit but I always wore a boiler suit or storemans coat. I had a pair of council workers overalls that I bought at a car boot sale.
I was probably known throughout Europe for my Orange coveralls
Not so in Ludwigshafen, they sent an internal policeman to see me who made me remove my overalls. Apparently I was being confused for the train driver and because I was ignoring their shouts of Raus!, Papers! and "For you pigdog it is the end of the war, they must have thought they had an uprising on their hands.
Wheel Nut:
Who said it doesn’t happen on the continent?
I was working in and out of BASF Ludwigshafen and it was very rare you had to wear a green chemical suit but I always wore a boiler suit or storemans coat. I had a pair of council workers overalls that I bought at a car boot sale.
I was probably known throughout Europe for my Orange coveralls
Not so in Ludwigshafen, they sent an internal policeman to see me who made me remove my overalls. Apparently I was being confused for the train driver and because I was ignoring their shouts of Raus!, Papers! and "For you pigdog it is the end of the war, they must have thought they had an uprising on their hands.
Blimey the abbreviation of an Ipo sounds even more menacing than Schupo or Gestapo.Look on the bright side you obviously didn’t have the dambusters march playing on the tape in the cab at full volume with the windows down and the big airfix model of a Lancaster on the dash when you stopped at the gate when you went in like I would have done.
loopyjuice:
or how about the man who bought a campervan set the cruise control and got up to make a coffee, only for the van to crash and him successfully sueing the manufacturer because he wasnt told he still had to steer the van whilst the cruise control was on
I think the rot truly set in when they let the kind of people who believe this sort of crap communicate with the rest of the world via the Internet.
The Winnebago incident (in various guises since the 1970’s) is false, however the McD coffee incident(s) is true.
I think campervans and all trucks should be fitted with the Autodrive system found on yankee trucks, (Homer Simpson had one fitted).
A couple of minor examples from my experience, Whilst being side tipped (full 26t load) I was asked to level off the suspension for the last 4 IBC’s, I asked for my keys back, reply came back “oh but you can’t have your keys whilst being tipped” I let the forkie think for a while before he said here you go . Another example is at Tesco at Worksop/Barlboro’ (other places do this too) the designated walkway from the bays is right in front of parked units, why not put it 3 metres in front, then your in view of any driver wanting to pull off a bay, not that I’d walk in front of a unit with a running engine without catching the drivers eye anyhow.
I wonder how many H&S bods actually consult the peeps that have to do the job that they’re ‘policing’.
I got told to put on my Hi-Vis and boots at NFT Daventry the other week before I was allowed on site… I pointed out that as my boots were in the side locker and I couldn`t open the door to get out until he allowed me to move forward he relented… however when I asked for their staff to fetch the paperwork as their “Walkway” was dangerously positioned the above problem disappeared
Wheel Nut:
Listen mate, if it is that zb dangerous, I don’t want to come in and I would advise you to start looking for another job
I got told off the other week for getting out of my cab in a quarry whilst in the queue to load. Apparently “it’s just not safe with all these big machines moving around”. There was only about a 3 foot gap between my wagon and a wall and I was very tempted to answer with “if there’s more than a one in a million chance of one of your shovel drivers accidentally driving an 8 foot wide loading shovel down that 3 foot wide gap and hitting me then you need to sack them and hire some better ones”. In reality I just did the “yes sir, no sir, three bags full sir” thing as I load out of there quite a lot and didn’t want to get banned.
Our drivers get warnings for no ppe, yet collect customers get away with walking about looking at materials, being nosey (one walked into our workshop on Thursday as my bucket was being craned off). Most annoying are the ones who stand there giving instructions how their trailers should be loaded. I ignore these morons and just whack the load on to test the chassis.
Someone mentioned bosses having different colour hard hats; We had this rule until quarry inspector ordered white for all. Only the directors could have white before and Dad was quizzed why he had one (concrete plant gave him a new one as his was damaged). Dad went one better and put 2 strips of black tape around it to look like a fire chiefs hat. Management not amuzed…
peugeot coventry is may personnel favorite .
on arrival at the gate the security git informs you that your bog standard HI-VIZ vest is "no good here mate you must wear this " he then hands you the correct vest , a ■■■■■■■ PINK one ffs , that has a tag stitched into it informing you its not upto standard and isnt the correct safety code
so whats the point of that then ?
everytime ive been in ive refused point blank to wear it and tucked it into my belt ( i refuse to be killed wearing pink ) thats the best they are going to get from me
Some bright spark now wants underrun bars on tippers. All that’ll do is create more hassle ie cleaning debris off after loading, increased tare weights and more to get damaged going off-road.
Well, yes, that’s what I did that afternoon, although I’ve no doubt that I will turn up there at some stage in the future to find that they have introduced some new rule about PPE such as having to have bright red deely-boppers sticking out of your head and I’ll get another telling off for not having the psychic powers required to know this when I had the temerity to arrive at their quarry at their behest to move their product.
Harry Monk:
I got a telling off today when I turned up to load bagged aggregates on a curtainsided trailer in the open air because I didn’t have- get this- a pair of hi-vis trousers.
Hi-vis vest, hard hat, safety boots, eye protection, and I was required to remain in the cab at all times during loading but apparently I was in mortal danger because I wasn’t wearing bright orange clown’s trousers.
Is there no end to this stupidity?
Corus now Tata Steel at Port Talbot required me to wear a long sleeved hi-viz, hi-viz trousers, hard hat with chin strap, safety glasses, ankle boots and ear defenders.
Then let me tip scrap in a bomb holl in 12 inches of water in the pitch black in the middle of nowhere on my own, what a load of crap nobody puts themselves in harm’s way intentionally, accidents will happen despite all this nonsense they always have and they always will.
I went for an induction today at a general haulage firm. One of the other guys turned up without a high vis and wearing flip flops. Didn’t even have the stuff in his car
I’ve had a few ddays with an agency, driving C1 delivering steel. I’d been to this particular company the previous day, was wearing shorts but also hi viz, hard hat, etc, without a problem. Anyway, I turned up the next day, wearing the same attire, only to be told by the forkie that due to the H&S talk they’d been given, I couldn’t get out of the cab as I was wearing shorts, and he had to wait for his supervisor to turn up before we could go any further. So his supervisor turns up, and the conversation goes like this -
Supervisor - Whats the problem?
Forkie - Driver wearing shorts, and as per h&s, cant get out of cab to unload,
Supervisor - Well you’ll have to unload him, climb up on his vehicle and unstrap etc,
Forkie - No can do, h&s says we can’t climb on non company vehicles,
Supervisor - Well driver will have to leave the site and return with correct attire,
After a slightly heated exchange between the forkie and supervisor, it was decided that it might be best for the supervisor to turn a blind eye, and we could all get on with the drop and everyone would be happy…
bowser:
peugeot coventry is may personnel favorite .
on arrival at the gate the security git informs you that your bog standard HI-VIZ vest is "no good here mate you must wear this " he then hands you the correct vest , a [zb] PINK one ffs , that has a tag stitched into it informing you its not upto standard and isnt the correct safety code
so whats the point of that then ?
everytime ive been in ive refused point blank to wear it and tucked it into my belt ( i refuse to be killed wearing pink ) thats the best they are going to get from me
If you mean Stoke Works. I can see their reasoning, anyone could just wander in and out and there was nothing to stop you just walking around the factory. I spent hours in and out of the competitions department
When RYTON was open, we were just given a pager and I dont remember any HS bull
