H&S taken to a new level

[Theo Markettos]

Wonder if I need 'working at heights' training for this:

Theo

[Davey]

That appears to be No. 5, what are 1 to 4?

[Nightjar]

Do you think that nobody could possibly suffer an injury if they fell off a kick step?

Colin Bignell

[Frank Erskine]

Probably 40 ft wooden ladders.

I understood that the HSE has fairly recently become a lot more realistic. IMBWT.

[RayL12]

Many would think not however, while working on a roof for a domestic property, we got a story from one of the builders. He said we both, he and our company, got the contract through very odd circumstances.

He went on to tell us that the previous roofer had slid off the roof. He was ok in general but, a little bruised and shocked, he decided to take a break for a week or two.

The builder said, he got the job because in the same week end the roofer had his bad luck, a bricky who was working on the back garden wall, toppled off a plastic milk crate and banged his head and died!

As you say, who would credit it?

[Gib Bogle]

You can suffer an injury walking across the room, if you happen to trip and fall the wrong way.

[The Medway Handyman]

I'm amazed by the number of PAT stickers I find on fridge freezers & other stuff that isn't in any way 'portable'.

[GB]

I think that you could. However, there is no special danger involved. For example, you could suffer an injury if a chair collapsed, but there's no requirement for all chairs to be inspected at regular intervals.

[charles]

true tehy aren't portable, unless you are superman - but they are "plugged in appliances" and therefore need testing.

[charles]

A friend broke an ankle falling off the edge of a 6" dancefloor.

[Nightjar]

There is a legal requirement involved where any person may suffer injury when falling from a height and there is no lower limit set for height. Hence, inspect kick steps to ensure they are safe does make sense.

I used to. Employers have a general duty to ensure that any equipment supplied for use at work is safe. As part of that, just before the Christmas holiday, we gave the entire factory a thorough clean, everything that was not on a more frequent inspection schedule got inspected and, every second year, all the fluorescent tubes in the clean rooms were changed.

Colin Bignell

[Nightjar]

IME they never were unrealistic. It was usually other people interpreting the regulations who made the silly decisions.

Colin Bignell

[Frank Erskine]

I read that as:- 'a 6" chancellor'.

[charles]

I don't have friends like that.

[Ian Jackson]

I've got a milk crate, and I can certainly confirm that they are very unstable. For some reason, they do readily flip over if you don't keep your feet close to the centre.

[Ian Jackson]

In message , charles writes

Surely that takes "portable" to a new level?

[Richard]

[Nightjar]

Not compared to the 2 ton lathe I was told had to have a PAT sticker because it was connected to a 3 phase supply with a 32 amp plug and socket.

Colin Bignell

[Brian Gaff]

Yes I remember a person working in a hospital tod me that a huge machine with a transformer in it that needed a fork lift to move it had a sticker, and when he asked he said it was just because the mains lead was detachable ving a socket on the other end. Not sure about that.

Brian

[tony sayer]

Very easily done that sort of thing. Your roofer was lucky, the builder not so.

I had a fall from 8 metres some years ago, was good for a month in hospital, and most of that in a coma;!...