On Mar 28, 8:24 am, XR8 Sprintless <XR8_Spr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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.
Speaking of extinguishers :-)
Having used up two personal ones and then had heart failure at the
price of recharging them
and teh fact that they tend to roll about and go klunk thump and dent/
break things in the boot
if have to swerve or throw out the anchors .
Modded up 2 large bottles of coke (on special at $0.98) with a spray
bottle trigger gun secured by a bungee strap
and worked a treat putting out another fire (which was funny Bloke
did not do his pre flight checks well enough) and the Local birds
built
some nests . Hero starts up this old Duchess and woomfaah bird nests
go up.
Not a lot of damage melted electrical wires and Shaken up Coke saved
the day
As his fire extinguisher.had been used to cool the tinnies he said
some time back ( CLOT)
Just a tIp shaken up large Bottle of fizzy drink also contains a fair
amount of CO 2
Think about it
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