toby1234abc:
Told to wear a hard hat while 5 feet above ground level to unload off a tail lift at a builders merchants,not much use is a hat when you fall off the edge as the hat as no chin straps,so it will fall off.
He said he had to tell me in case his boss was about.
Not neccesarily true!I fell out the cab in liverpool with my hard hat on and it never came off.It never had a chin strap neither.Infact if it werent for the hard hat i wouldnt have fallen out as i forgot it first time!
degsy4wheels:
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.
The hard hat is a good idea if you are working in close proximity to something like that, but you will need a good argument to convince me I need one while working in a field in open countryside digging footings for a barn. 
Andydisco:
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 itmy 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 have always been wary of hammering at tyres when they are inflated.
Obituary printed in the London Times
Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense ,
who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure
how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in
bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:
Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don’t spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge).
His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with ■■■■■■ harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.
Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children.
It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.
Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims.
Common Sense took a beating when you couldn’t defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.
Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realise that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.
Common Sense was preceded in death,
-by his parents, Truth and Trust,
-by his wife, Discretion,
-by his daughter, Responsibility,
-and by his son, Reason.
He is survived by his 5 stepbrothers;
Not many attended his funeral because so few realised he was gone.
Angus25:
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
No FAM, no drive! B.B.B! 
