Health & Safety issue

I have no idea what that means?

Reply to
ARW
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No hi vis jacket? If so what colour was it and how many people did it take to pass the motion on the colour of the hi vis?

Reply to
ARW

Ooooh!!

There lies a story!

Must be orange, unless of course the demented tossers on site prefer green. Those going for orange are demonstrating their superb knowledge of local conditions by predicting what the insect life head for. 'Shame that the same knowledge doesn't take in to account the almost complete lack of traffic around the sites they administrate over.

A colleague wanted pink Hi Vis but this wasn't allowed at all, she should have tried for a sex discrimination case.

The rule now on a lot of sites is full Hi Vis. [ I work indoors with nice pretty little relays and 1mm cables], Occasionally I join the big rough boys and start terminating 2.5 and even 4mm cable, this is all inside away from any vehicular traffic.

The trouble is, the hi vis and reverse parking tossers don't stop there, some such as Costains go even further and jump onto the "green" bandwaggon, wanting to know if the lucky souls attending their sites have used petrol or diesel transport and furthermore how many miles they have travelled to attend.

Environmental policy is very similar to H&S, it seems like a nice comfortable niche for the lesser able.

AB

Reply to
Archibald Tarquin Blenkinsopp

A GCSE English grade "G"?

AB

Reply to
Archibald Tarquin Blenkinsopp

About as easy as using a metallurgical microscope at high mag with plastic safety glasses over spectacles, as the signage once instructed me.

Reply to
newshound

If you label *both* ends of the lead then such nastiness won't happen.

Owain

Reply to
spuorgelgoog

SOP for small offices IME.

Reply to
Tim Streater

Noticed this on a TV programme about a year ago (in either a RR Aero engine factory or an Airbus factory - I cant remember which) where everyone on the factory floor (including the CEO being interviewed) was wearing safety glasses. I thought at the time it seemed excessive, although the safety glasses were "wrap around" and looked a lot lighter and more comfortable than the monstrosities I had to wear years ago.

Reply to
CB

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"Won't"? You have got to be joking, slightly less likely at best.

Reply to
Dave Liquorice

In article , Archibald Tarquin Blenkinsopp writes

I think you mean deferred pass

Reply to
bert

They're also really quite cheap. Far cheaper than a Mac Mini.

Reply to
Adrian

We're getting 30 or so 'new' PCs for my lab, I'd like mac mini's or PC equi v. because of their small size and low power and low noise, but we'll prob baly be gettig the standard tower machines. One reason for getting them is cheapness, another is so they can be easily upgraded, but I'm betting the m ost important reason is because they are large relatively power hungry and pig ugly so no one will be tempted to nick them.

Reply to
whisky-dave

The Dell mini towers are my recommendation - you can spec those up to ludicrous levels (32GB RAM, i7 CPU, 2 1TB SSDs) (but of course you can be a lot more modest).

Not ugly, not large, not unecessarily tiny either and very quiet. Also very reliable IME.

Reply to
Tim Watts

R U saying that a smaller machine is less power hungry?...

Reply to
tony sayer

Quite possibly, yes. It'll have a lower specced PSU running at a higher load - more efficient. Quite possibly 2.5 inch discs to be small - which are slower, but use less power. Certainly not a heavy duty graphics processor...

There aren't many of us that need that spec. And I really hope oil companies are using proper server farms. Their data runs really nicely across many systems - it's inherently parallel.

Andy

Reply to
Vir Campestris

unused cpu cycles are much underharvested. Most of the world's processing power goes unused.

NT

Reply to
tabbypurr

Yes, generally speaking, for those I've measured anyway.

Reply to
whisky-dave

Actually I was asking re physical size rather than the same spec.

Reply to
tony sayer

Then the answer is still yes. Having smaller PSUs smaller fans and a better built box does seem to have the effect of using less power. Partly because the standard boxes sometime use the fact that they have a larger PSU and more power and a higher power graphics card to attract buyers.

Reply to
whisky-dave

I suspect their sheer physical size is the main deterrent to theft.

The physical size doesn't make a lot of difference - though you can more easily get away with entirely passive cooling in a bigger box.

If you don't need gaming quality 3D graphics deleting the dedicated graphics card entirely and using the Intel HD internal graphics makes for a very large power saving. It is no slouch for 2D work.

There is a slight hit on shared memory bandwidth but unless you have a very unusual usage pattern it is all but unmeasurable.

Reply to
Martin Brown

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