Doug Jewell wrote:
> Frigging health & safety "experts". Dunno what it is about them, but
> they don't seem to have a shred of intelligence to share between the
> bloody lot of them. We had an OHS inspector come and inspect our shop a
> while back. We have a photo processing lab and so he decided that we
> must have an eye-wash station in the lab because of the risk of chemical
> splash. But the chemicals in the lab all go into and out of the machine
> in sealed containers. The only risk of spla****ng occurs in the washroom
> where the roller assemblies are dismantled for wa****ng. No we couldn't
> have the eyewash station there, it had to be in the lab. What's scary is
> these braindead ****wits have the power to completely shut down a shop
> until their petty complaints are fixed, costing shop owners thousands of
> dollars. Really the only health and safety risk was the inspector
> getting a 4x2 around the ears, although the risk of brain damage from
> such action would be minimal.
>
> One of the blokes I work with has a brother on a building site in
> Brisbane. They require frequent access to the street, and being the only
> operation on a dead-end street, they applied to council and got the
> street closed for the period of the construction. ****wit OH&S officer
> decided that since they were doing stuff on the street, they needed to
> have qualified traffic controllers onsite at all times. Yup, to control
> traffic on a short, dead-end, CLOSED street. The site was shutdown until
> they complied. Needless to say, they are now paying the wages of 2
> traffic controllers, who sit around doing nothing all day. I think 2
> hitmen to arrange the demise of the OH&S inspector would be a better way
> to spend the money.
Reminds me of the time I was doing training in the use of fire
extinguishers. Had a tray of diesel (about 1.5 square metres) set alight
by the trainer who then handed me a CO2 extinguisher to prove that they
were no good on a flammable liquid fire. I told him that whilst that was
the case in most cir***stances given the situation that it was a
contained fire then the CO2 would be able to do the job. I then
proceeded to put the fire out with the CO2 extinguisher and with the
trainer rather pissed off. His main complaint was that he felt I got too
close to the tray when putting it out. I was about 1m away from it when
the flames were extinguished. I basically used a sweeping motion about 6
inches above the flames which smothered them completely.
It took about a minute to complete the job which given a chemical
extinguisher takes a few seconds, but it proved a point. I certainly
would not have tried it with a water extinguisher.
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