toby1234abc:
Has all this started since an American lady sued a large burger company that starts with a “M”,she got millions for getting burnt on hot coffee,no warnings on the cup,but there are now.
Packet of peanuts,warning label-may contain nuts.
Fire brigade do not go up trees so much now to get cats down,have you ever seen a cats skeleton up a tree?
They get tree surgeron to go up and get them 
Wincanton (tesco contract) have safe systems of work for everything, the most rediculous is the changing of batteries in wall mounted clocks, only trained employees can change the batteries, but of course being as there wall mounted you also need to be trained on the use of a step ladder.
So thats 2 training sessions in order to replace a battery in a clock !!!
I avoid polishing my cab as I’ve nowhere to put the COSHH paperwork for it.
My fave is hazard lights on so you can be seen…
If there is anyone on site that can’t see a 44 tonne artic then they have sight issues and shouldn’t be on site…
B n Q are good for this - at Worksop they had a one way system for safety reasons and you are banned if you don’t follow it…unless you are a shunter in which case it’s fine to go the wrong way…
Classic H&S ■■■■■■■■■
On a crossrail site I had to wear high viz orange only as its a rail job even though it was nowhere near a rail line boots hard hat and goggles even though I dint get out of the cab.
You have to have saftey rules but these days most people involved in health and saftey are the people who 30 years ago would be starting strikes because they had the wrong colour paper in the bog.
Got too many stories to list when it comes to H&S
but its not about personal safety, it is more about the company preventing insurance claims against them
Truckulent:
My fave is hazard lights on so you can be seen…If there is anyone on site that can’t see a 44 tonne artic then they have sight issues and shouldn’t be on site…
B n Q are good for this - at Worksop they had a one way system for safety reasons and you are banned if you don’t follow it…unless you are a shunter in which case it’s fine to go the wrong way…
Classic H&S [zb]
yeah screwfix are like that
health and safety mad
hazards must be on all the time
yet thier shunters speed round
but luckily one of my regular collections is sound
i just go in , drop trailer , back up onto loaded trailer even tho bay red light is on
then i go in , get a free coffee out the machine , chat to the fork lift blokes
then sign for waybill , they give me the seal
which i put on outside when i put my number plate on
You should know has a proffetion driver that shunters are exempt from every rule and health and safety regulations
Truckulent:
My fave is hazard lights on so you can be seen…If there is anyone on site that can’t see a 44 tonne artic then they have sight issues and shouldn’t be on site…
B n Q are good for this - at Worksop they had a one way system for safety reasons and you are banned if you don’t follow it…unless you are a shunter in which case it’s fine to go the wrong way…
Classic H&S [zb]
klingon:
You should know has a proffetion driver that shunters are exempt from every rule and health and safety regulationsTruckulent:
My fave is hazard lights on so you can be seen…If there is anyone on site that can’t see a 44 tonne artic then they have sight issues and shouldn’t be on site…
B n Q are good for this - at Worksop they had a one way system for safety reasons and you are banned if you don’t follow it…unless you are a shunter in which case it’s fine to go the wrong way…
Classic H&S [zb]
Absolutely. One of their drivers once had a pop at me for no hazards…I asked the ■■■■ if he’d been promoted to site manager…then told him to mind his own ■■■■■■■ business… 
In freightliner Cardiff you have to wear hi vis and hard hat INSIDE THE CAB when you go under the crane. 
Trukkertone:
its me as well
■■■■ cowboys,no hi viz,no hard hats,no safety barriers,and don’t even get me started on that power cable! 
A previous employer made the gantry crane driver wear hard hat whilst inside his gantry crane…
Same employer also insisted that hard hats must be worn whilst lifting a 60’ passenger carriage from one line to another, over another coach.
Had the coach fallen I am not totally convinced the hard hat would have saved the wearer much damage to his/her bonce.
Same employer said it was fine to turn over a multimodal container wagon using only chains on the buffers! These buffers were attached by 4 one inch bolts…
H&S in the railway industry…
Health and Safety to be looked at again after burger van explodes 
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-yo … 169?ref=nf
You can imagine it will be even more difficult to get outside caterers to work on an event after this. Fire service checks and a gas fitters certificate probably
mkb600:
A previous employer made the gantry crane driver wear hard hat whilst inside his gantry crane…
Same employer also insisted that hard hats must be worn whilst lifting a 60’ passenger carriage from one line to another, over another coach.
Had the coach fallen I am not totally convinced the hard hat would have saved the wearer much damage to his/her bonce.Same employer said it was fine to turn over a multimodal container wagon using only chains on the buffers! These buffers were attached by 4 one inch bolts…
H&S in the railway industry…
I queried this once and got the reply “its easier to gather your brains up afterwards if they are already in the hat”
franklin:
A certain place just off the m5: Disconnect red air line, lock over air line, lock cab AND stay out of it…
sounds like yeo valley?? i use to really ■■■■ them off when i had to leave the engine running to use the walking floor to walk in their scrap pallets of packaging, they wouldn’t let us do it during the week!!! had to do it saturday mornings after the first load when it was quite
In defence of the hard hat. I was an aircraft refueller until i knackered my shoulder, and it was instant dismissal if caught without ppe, mainly the bump cap, and to be honest i’m glad that was the rule. i was out doing a 767 one morning, and bent down to attach the bonding cable to the bonding point on the left hand rear undercarriage. As i stood up i smacked my head on the edge of the undercarriage door, a few choice words were uttered and i saw stars for a few seconds. When i got back to the depot, my head was bleeding, and i ended up having it stitched, and a few days later i went to see my g.p to get checked over. After asking the usual questions i was signed off sick for a week with delayed concussion and my g.p told me had i not been wearing my bump cap it was likely i would have fractured my skull. Totally my fault as i should have stepped back before i stood up. Luckily i also had a witness who put in a statement as my boss said there is no way i was wearing my bump cap or i would never have got the injury.
i currently drive a 58 plate 18 ton scania for a well known foodservice company…our whole fleet is being replaced in the next fortnight with 62 plate 18 ton scanias.but…before we are allowed to drive them on the 3rd september we have to come in for a 3 hour training session on a saturday to be trained how to operate them!!
as far as i can see the only difference is the new trucks have a different thermo printer for fridge temps!!
I had one today that made me chuckle ,collected a cabin from Newtown in Powys and took it to a site in Preston where i ended up getting a house brick stuck between the 2 rear wheels on the drive axle after driving over the rubble they had made the site access out of, no problem methinks as i happily bang away at the brick.Only to hear shouts of stop stop, out i gets to be asked have you got a test certificate for that hammer, and have you been trained in using it
my answer was no and no so was told to get off the site .So I drove off the site and carried hammering away in the road outside
i hope you launched the aforementioned brick over the fence after it had been safely removed from between the wheels
You think civvi street is mad on h&s I was a mechanic in the army even though I could fix some trucks I could not drive them as I wasnt yrained to drive that type now thats mad I could drive a 14 ton bedford tm but not a 8 ton bedford tm it only the diff lock switch are diffrent