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I’m sure you guys have a lot to contribute on this very contentious subject of today’s current rules & regs on ‘elf ‘n safety. Council officials not allowed to enter properties if the tenants are smoking a cigarette. Fire & safety officers not allowed to use a step ladder to check a smoke alarm unless someone was there to assist in case of injury and such like nonsense….
Here is one example of the regulation I was faced with today in my line of work : –
Local school kindergarten that has several washing machines/dishwashers and dryers. The appliances are located in 2 specific ‘safety monitored areas’. One is in the infants section the other located in the toddler section. Now there are little issues involving fixing a dishwasher in the infants section, however in the toddler section you either have to remove your outdoor footwear and wear ‘indoor approved’ footwear or have to place flexible/disposable shoe covers on your outdoor shoes and walk about with them on.
The difficulty arises when you have to exit the building to go to your van or move from the toddler section to the infant section or vice versa. Each time having to remove the shoe covers and be reallocated new ones on your return. All the while supervised by a senior supervisor.(although in my case she was well fit – to much information on my part there 😉 )
Just another day in a world gone mad. :rolls:
Re: Health & Safety in the workplace
We repair the cookers in local schools for the Council, it’s got to a point where we now do the service work out of school hours in term time and try to do most of them during half term breaks, but the same issues arise like Martin in residential homes that we do, some of them for the mentally disabled we have to have a security guard with us at all times 😯
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I was asked to submit a “risk assessment” to unblock a tumble dryer fan in a council care home. Manager there got very stroppy when I told her in that case I wouldn’t do the job as it was ridiculous for a professional engineer to have to fill out paperwork to use a screwdriver, claiming the council had a “duty of care to contractors etc. etc.
In the end they gave up and let me continue with my non-politically correct, unethnically diverse repair 😉
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Why does signing in with the stroppy receptionist who looks down their nose at you and getting a guest pass annoy me so much, especially in a one room office 👿
Tony
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Used to it with the schools as we have lots of Som County Council food technology contracts. Normally carry out annual service/inspections in school holidays.
Had to to a H&S assessment regards the office, all the malarky regards going up steps, level floors, seating, computer screens, tipp-ex and solvents, demonstration and evidence of H&S training, appointed H&S officer etc. Notices of muster points, log of fire alarm tests and fire drills. Risk assessments mission statements god knows what.
Then I’m supposed to have a Banksman in the yard wearing a viz marshalling reversing traffic for every parcel delivery.
Best one, fridge in the mess room.
“If you have refrigeration equipment for staff use, please complete section 13 and supply a copy of your daily monitor of temperatures taken” Then “If there is no refrigeration equipment go straight to section 14”
So, if there is a fridge, as long as the temps are in criteria, OK. If there is NO fridge and the food is kept at room temperature and in the open, then no problem!
In the true spirit of health & safety I have therefore chosen to turn off the fridge & leave the door open and allow the food to “breathe” at plus 24 deg C, rather than risk temp increase to something outrageously dangerous such as plus 5 deg C. Saves me keeping a daily log! Also I like my beer at room temp.
Strangely they have no interest at all regards engineers in the field. Despite heavy products, slippery floors, electric shock, abusive customers filthy homes etc. However if anyone in here carries a compressor across the carpeted office, he/she need to have the weight assessed and wear protective shoes.
We live in a nut-house!
Alex
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We live in a nut-house!
Agreed ! No lets move onto Human Rights Shall We ! 😉
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Went to a residential care complex, very large empty parking area in the front of the building, I park up with the front of my car facing the lawn.
Warden complained that now when I leave he would need to “Guide me” backwards as its a “Non Reversing Zone”, I laughed as
1) Its a 8 month old Insignia CDTI Estate car, I’m not about to dent it.
2) I had around 60 meters before anything was near.All residents are locked away.
Once had to have a “Back Round Check” and sign a few official looking forms before gaining access to a canteen in an office once.
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