Why we need H&S to protect them form their own stupidity.
Chat Forum
Dangerous workers
-
Posted 6 months ago #
-
Nah - that's why we need Darwin; so the next generation are slightly less stupid.
Posted 6 months ago # -
Looks more like one doozer of a stag weekend to me
Posted 6 months ago # -
thank-god I'm not incriminated in any of those, hoped to gain some pointers even, but nothing new
Posted 6 months ago # -
you couldnt make some of them up!
Posted 6 months ago # -
I saw someone cleaning the windows of a hotel in Tunis standing on the outside window sill on the 10th floor without a rope or anything. Pretty much everything I've seen on articles like that seems reasonable by comparison.
Posted 6 months ago # -
Holy Crap!
Posted 6 months ago # -
You've all seen the video of the guy climbing the aerial mast, yes?
Posted 6 months ago # -
:lol:
Posted 6 months ago # -
That mast video has made me feel quite unwell.
Posted 6 months ago # -
The guy at the firing range is probably the safest in the link. Idiots like that are the reason we're not allowed to use a kick stool without a standby-man.
Posted 6 months ago # -
Good that he's got someone to hold the bottom ladder in order to make it safe.
Posted 6 months ago # -
Wonderful, just think of it as evolution in action. Nature's way of culling the terminally stupid. Everytime one kicks it, the overall intelligence of the human race goes up by a minute fraction of a percent.
Posted 6 months ago # -
Someone please post up the pic of the man standing on a forklift being lifted by another forklift?
EDIT: oh, it's on that list:
Posted 6 months ago # -
No..unable to watch that mast video. Its not for real is it? No safety rope?
Posted 6 months ago # -
Theres no safety rope because if you fell off there is no possibility of rescue at that height.
Posted 6 months ago # -
No safety rope because he's an idiot. Yes safety gear slows you down but at least you have a fighting chance of self recovery in a fall.
Posted 6 months ago # -
I've seen a lot worse in many UK industrial sites
Posted 6 months ago # -
+1 for tazzymtb
The risks taken at British refineries, particularly when there's been a problem that's postponed production and is costing money, are horrendous.
Posted 6 months ago # -
Posted 6 months ago #
-
That last vid should be in the Grow Up thread.. hilarious.
Posted 6 months ago # -
Nothing wrong with that - he's wearing Hi Viz. Safe as houses.
Posted 6 months ago # -
My dad ran a car factory and one day as he walked around he found a guy inside the cardboard compactor, with the safety button 'overridden' pushing the cardboard in.
Guy - it takes too long by itself
Dad - do I pay you by the job or for the day?Posted 6 months ago # -
I still haven't got over this trusting wife!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7mr7CK7zEkThen there's those Empire State Building workers
Posted 6 months ago # -
how many are shopped? I'd assumed the fork lift one was
nobody is that stupid right?.....right?
Posted 6 months ago # -
To be fair, a lot of those situations are cos the employers are scumbaygs and don't issue the proper safety equipment to their workers who cannot afford to provide their own.
This is rife throughout the bicycle manufacturing industry (and many, many others) btw...
Posted 6 months ago # -
When I worked in an office on Rose Street in Edinburgh there was a guy who used to come and clean the windows of the Travelodge opposite.
His technique was to climb out of a 3rd floor window and then traverse the building on the 3 inch wide ledge stepping up onto the windowsills to reach up the windows. He even went round the corners of the building where there was nothing for his hands at all!
It was compelling viewing as everyone expected him to splat onto the tables outside the bar below at some point.
Posted 6 months ago # -
I've seen a lot worse in many UK industrial sites
Yep, me too! Remember when I started work as a teen, the boss said to me "most of the job is just common sense, but you'd be surprised how many people lack any at all". Over the years, I've worked in or had to visit, so many potentially dangerous work environments, and some of the stuff I've seen beggars belief.(latest was a 14 tonne excavator working 10cm from the edge of a sheer sided 3 metre deep unsupported hole in soft ground - with 3 guys working in the bottom of the hole, and bits of the top edge of the side falling in!!...(site supervisor just watched completely oblivious....t**t!))
IME, most of the people that come up with the 'Health & Safety gone mad' comments work in nice safe office type environments, and have no appreciation of how bl**din' thick some people are.
Posted 6 months ago # -
I've seen a lot worse in many UK industrial sites
Pah! You want to see the German forklift drivers:
Posted 6 months ago # -
That mast video has made me feel quite unwell.
I feel sick.
Posted 6 months ago # -
Strewth, there's two scenes in the German forklift vid that remind of a couple of 'amusing' (er...not for the persons involved!) incidents that I've seen
Bloke wandering about in shock with a piece of industrial sawblade sticking put of his forehead, and (one of my all time favourites) the time when my boss took his hard hat off for a couple of seconds to scratch his head, then with hat off, turned round and smacked his head on a steel girder and decked himself - oh, and the foreman had warned him to watch his head on low girders about 30 seconds before Posted 6 months ago #
Reply
You must log in to post.
