Ever been to a party nick and you join a group of lads having a laugh and the laughter stops then starts again when you walk away.
Now that DID make me laugh !! 
Regards. John.
nick2008:
Let’s be honest the only thing being hurt is someone’s pride or machoness. What the he’ll does it cost you to put a net on ur head beard etc because a company wants you to. Your not paying for the stuff, just crack on do as asked or go find another job it really is that simple.
I’ll look out for you mate at the company that want to do a rubber glove/Vaseline body search, you will be the one with his keck’s down saying ‘What the hell it costs me nowt’ cracking on doing as asked, and I’ll be the one looking for another job and telling them to ■■■■ off 
Dipper_Dave:
Ever been to a party nick and you join a group of lads having a laugh and the laughter stops then starts again when you walk away.
sometimes … 
Radar19:
I’ve done plenty of paper drops and not once have I been made to wear a hairnet.
Not had to wear hairnets but when picking up some paper from the mill at Ellesmere Port I had to wear safety glasses in case I got a 2.5 tonne reel in my eye… 
Another was at a cwrtain place very near millers bridge bootle, I drove in dropped the air and my ramp and went to walk up the ramp, the guy says " you can’t go on the back of the wagon" …ermm how is the flt supposed to be driven of?..after a pause and blank look the reply was “can you drive it off quickly and out f view”
Conor:
Radar19:
I’ve done plenty of paper drops and not once have I been made to wear a hairnet.Not had to wear hairnets but when picking up some paper from the mill at Ellesmere Port I had to wear safety glasses in case I got a 2.5 tonne reel in my eye…
Class pure class thank you
Some places do have some weird rules. Keyline Builders Merchants, part of the Travis Perkins group, require you to wear a hard hat while in their yard delivering. Nothing unusual about that I hear you say. But their own yard staff don’t need to wear them!!! Not sure what makes drivers so special. Obviously they take our welfare more seriously than that of their own staff.
Also done a few deliveries to the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome when it was being built. The contractor I delivered to had no forklift trucks so everything was a tail lift delivery. But site rules dictated that no driver should be up on the load bed of their vehicle. I did try asking the pallets nicely if they could possibly make their way onto the tail lift for me one time, but strangely it didn’t work. So it was one of those ones where you had to quickly jump onto the back of your truck while nobody was looking to get the pallets off.[emoji3]
Just for fun I filled out an accident book last July…
"Loading a pallete using taillift and pallete truck. A sack barrow was in the way so I took a step back holding sack barrow. The tail lift wasn’t there any more (had been lowered by a random assistant). Fell from back of truck to ground. Sack barrow landed just missing my head. Then, most unexpectedly, a green first aid kit landed squarely on my face giving me black eye and cutting cheek. Someone had tried to reach first aid kit in trailer from the ground, and got it off hooks without having hold of it. Patched up face with electrical tape (first aid kit was empty, irony not escaping me). Had coffee. Medical advice was sought as local guy was most concerned I might not be fit to drive. Told him that apart from bruises I was fine. He persisted and eventually a medic was found, or rather the closest available which turned out to be a cleaner who also cleaned a local doctors surgery and had a daughter attending St John’s ambulance cadets. Was certified fit to drive in about 15 seconds. Cracked on. "
Have heard nothing further, so I don’t imagine it actually gets read!
I can’t decide if I prefer the modern paranoid sites or the old school common sense sites, but I err towards the latter. Worst of it is that my wife now describes me as the husband that fell of the back of a lorry…
th2013:
Just for fun I filled out an accident book last July…"Loading a pallete using taillift and pallete truck. A sack barrow was in the way so I took a step back holding sack barrow. The tail lift wasn’t there any more (had been lowered by a random assistant). Fell from back of truck to ground. Sack barrow landed just missing my head. Then, most unexpectedly, a green first aid kit landed squarely on my face giving me black eye and cutting cheek. Someone had tried to reach first aid kit in trailer from the ground, and got it off hooks without having hold of it. Patched up face with electrical tape (first aid kit was empty, irony not escaping me). Had coffee. Medical advice was sought as local guy was most concerned I might not be fit to drive. Told him that apart from bruises I was fine. He persisted and eventually a medic was found, or rather the closest available which turned out to be a cleaner who also cleaned a local doctors surgery and had a daughter attending St John’s ambulance cadets. Was certified fit to drive in about 15 seconds. Cracked on. "
Have heard nothing further, so I don’t imagine it actually gets read!
I can’t decide if I prefer the modern paranoid sites or the old school common sense sites, but I err towards the latter. Worst of it is that my wife now describes me as the husband that fell of the back of a lorry…
Quality thank you
Thinking about it a bit some of these stupid health and safety rules cry out to be questioned. Obviously as drivers we only deal with frontline staff who themselves are either so weighed down by elf and safety that they have been brainwashed to a degree of total submission or get their rocks off by finding fault with new visitors to site.
Now my job involves me visiting places where health and safety is either non excistent (i’m even talking no hi viz vests needed) to others where its so ■■■■ its arguably dangerous. I.e. your wearing so much crap that attention is distracted from the job in hand or even driving around with hazards on… WTF is that all about, I put my hazards on when manouvering on sites not when just tootling around. Dont get me started on having to wear a chin strap to keep your helmet on. [Edit: Accidental ■■■■■■■■ reference I missed]
I understand that health and safety is designed to protect everyone especially the lowest lifeform who would struggle to empty water from a wellington boot even if the instructions where written on the sole but I feel that its getting to the point of being ridiculous.
If you do a box swap at pentalvers in felixstowe you have to show the guy in the office your hard hat. Ok, show him the hat, but you are not allowed out of the cab whilst on the site, until you get to the out gate to do up your twistlocks. I asked a guy in the yard one day why we needed to have a hard hat when we aren’t allowed out of the cab and he couldn’t explain it. H&S gone mad!
H&S rules are not stupid to the person that thinks them up, it keeps them employed.
th2013:
Worst of it is that my wife now describes me as the husband that fell of the back of a lorry…
The next time I go to Tescos RDC I am going to wear a full NBC suit complete with gas mask with a hi vis on the outside and a bob the builder hat on top, marigold gloves and a red sign on my groin saying Danger do not enter
I used to deliver to a site where the path between my vehicle and the goods inwards doorway was the main route from the front gate to the rest of the site.
I used to have to wear the hard hat, hi viz, safety boots and eye protection whilst the forkie unloaded me. The staff and visitors walked past giving me a strange looks.
if the forkies don’t have high vis’s on then I don’t need mine on.
madmackem:
If you do a box swap at pentalvers in felixstowe you have to show the guy in the office your hard hat. Ok, show him the hat, but you are not allowed out of the cab whilst on the site, until you get to the out gate to do up your twistlocks. I asked a guy in the yard one day why we needed to have a hard hat when we aren’t allowed out of the cab and he couldn’t explain it. H&S gone mad!
Funnily enough I had to tip and turn here and got out my cab to check twistlocks between unloading and loading, whilst putting my helmet on I considered how much protection it would offer from a falling container compared to how much it restricted my vision and head movement to spot a falling container in the first place.
alder:
The next time I go to Tescos RDC I am going to wear a full NBC suit complete with gas mask with a hi vis on the outside and a bob the builder hat on top, marigold gloves and a red sign on my groin saying Danger do not enter
Elf and saftey is mainly ■■■■■■■■ , take some of these RDC’s you back on a bay, they have those wheel locking devices that engages as you dock, so there is no way that you can pull off they bay(whith it engarged) then most have a incline that runs towards the bays to prevent roll aways, plus the must hand in truck keys nonsense,some go even further by having a suzie lock set up, apart from an inconvience to the drivers what does this ■■■■■■■■ really achieve? nothing that basic common sense and a bit of trust wouldn’t