Health & Safety.......will it go with New Labour?

[Monki]

Currently have a prat from HSE telling us that we need a trained dermatologist on site in case anyone has a "problem with their hands" due to working with metal.

She knows sod all about the company, fk all about engineering and is suggesting we spend st loads of money on things that will make fk all difference e.g guards making drills unusable, incubators for our oil products, telling us that latex gloves are dangerous because some people can have a reaction to them

Feel like sticking her in the 1000tonne press

[Monki]

Oh and apparently we have a "Radon Drill", never knew I worked for fking Ming the Merciless

[TeamD]

Sadly, I don't think so. It's the only growth industry we've got.

[Mojooo]

Of course not.

[grumbledoak]

It's got a life of it's own now.

Sartre said Hell is "eternity with your friends", but he'd not met them. The phrase "Micromanaged by Halfwits" was never more apt.

[NismoGT]

What a load of st! I work in a sheet metal plant and all we need to have is a nurse who visits every Thursday!

[Monki]

That's what I thought, the stupid bint

And she is insistant on us fitting guards to our "Radon Drills" eventhough it's no feasible

Health & Safety I agree with, but to a limit....now it's just trying to justify its existance through enforcing bks

[thinfourth2]

Find out when she is coming back and give all your employees the day off

When she asks where they are just say you fired them to save them from harm.

[Jasandjules]

Tell her to f**k off.

HTH.

[turbobloke]

Jasandjules said:

Tell her to f**k off.

HTH.

Hold on - she might be a violent type, better do a risk assessment first.

[NismoGT]

turbobloke said:

Jasandjules said:

Tell her to f**k off.

HTH.

Hold on - she might be a violent type, better do a risk assessment first.

[groucho]

This risk assessment malarkey drives me nuts. I've been doing my job for 30 years and I'm still here. I can risk assess in 2 minutes.

[bunyarra]

We have been told that if we do not do a risk assessment for each woman we employ that tells us they are pregnant, we can be automatically at fault in an Employment Tribunal. It's small office where the most dangerous thing is the kettle ....

[BiggusLaddus]

Monki said:

telling us that latex gloves are dangerous because some people can have a reaction to them

That bit is true - which is why most 'latex gloves' are not made from latex anymore.

[FourWheelDrift]

BiggusLaddus said:

Monki said:

telling us that latex gloves are dangerous because some people can have a reaction to them

That bit is true - which is why most 'latex gloves' are not made from latex anymore.

They are now made from the skins of Health & Safety inspectors.

[Mr POD]

I have suffered with bad Ezcema since I was a teenager, and as an manufacturing engineer, am fairly qualified as an unqualified person can be. I have had to be pretty careful, but recently actually realised that 50% of my skin issues are related to stress.

anyway !

1) Provide a range of nitrile gloves.
2) Provide a range of washing and skin reconditioning creams.
3) Provide basic common sense training. (as in wash your hand BEFORE you go to the toilet)
4) If you company has a OH nurse, do a 6 monthly survey of all staff, and a monthly survey of those that are a problem and then do risk assessments on the tasks they do with a decent manufacturing engineer, or chemist (if there's alot of chemicals).
5) If not, charge all managers with the simple instruction. If you see anyone with a skin complaint, send them to the quack.
6) Make sure you have all the MSD's (even for the washing up liquid) and put them in a place that staff can see them and read them. Encourage them to.

[VxDuncan]

It should be understood that health and safety is not there to prevent accidents primarily, the rules and regulations exist to ensure the company meets the whims of Brussuls and first and foremost to stop the company getting sued. For this you can blame the yanks lawyer culture. For that reason I think it will be with us for a long time.

[turbobloke]

FourWheelDrift said:

BiggusLaddus said:

Monki said:

telling us that latex gloves are dangerous because some people can have a reaction to them

That bit is true - which is why most 'latex gloves' are not made from latex anymore.

They are now made from the skins of Health & Safety inspectors.

Thinking skills like that should be taught in the national curriculum, made available on the NHS, and sold in corner shops.

[oldbanger]

BiggusLaddus said:

Monki said:

telling us that latex gloves are dangerous because some people can have a reaction to them

That bit is true - which is why most 'latex gloves' are not made from latex anymore.

Furthermore you can develop the allergy just by wearing them regularly. Several years of lab work and then a couple in heath care and the flesh started coming off my fingers... it was not nice :/

Vinyl gloves are just as cheap as latex these days, so I don't see why most companies can't just switch and be done with it.

[Mr POD]

FourWheelDrift said:

BiggusLaddus said:

Monki said:

telling us that latex gloves are dangerous because some people can have a reaction to them

That bit is true - which is why most 'latex gloves' are not made from latex anymore.

They are now made from the foreskins of Elf's (& Safety inspectors).

Edited for comedy.


Nitrile.

Just did a 5S exercise with 7 Senior Craft Fitters, and the average number of gloves in each person's tool cabinet was: Wait for it.

300 plus, usually about 280 Nitrile Gloves, and the rest, random types including, welding, chemical, and Kevlar motorcycle, cycling, and ski gloves. One had oven gloves (to get his pie out of the microwave at lunch) .

We've put a dispenser up and returned 1400 gloves to stores.

No doubt we'll run out next week !!!