Most effective PPE talk - "heres the smashed hard hat", the guy was still knocked out by the flying 6 inch pulley block that hit him., but he lived. And most bizarre health and safety info: not to use European style WCs as squat toilets, as they are more common in Indonesia. Somebody tried standing on the sides of the toilet, the toilet collapsed and they suffered a cut to the femoral artery from the shards of ceramic they then fell on arse first. They survived.
what type of injuries, how may fatal , how many life changing , more of which ? It’s also possible that reporting injuries has increased due to the lack of folks not needing to be well ard
the first one that came up on google https://www.healthandsafetyinternat...ies in construction have,78.68% since 2018/19. “Safety is often treated as a ‘tick-box exercise’ by workers who don’t fully understand the risks involved, or simply believe these accidents won’t happen to them.” from another site Although there will always be accidents in the construction industry, we can never stop trying to reduce them. These latest findings show just how far we have to go, with fatalities continuing to rise, despite the UK having some of the most thorough health and safety regulations anywhere. “Training is key to protecting workers, whether it is highlighting dangers or teaching workers to make their own risk assessments on site.
“Training is key to protecting workers, whether it is highlighting dangers or teaching workers to make their own risk assessments on site.[/QUOTE] Ozziedog,,,,,,,,,,Obviously taken from them Zed Chronicles
I've done a few very short courses, one was for working on live gas sites. 'kin joke with multi choice questions done in pencil so the blokey could *cough* you might want to look at that one again. Complete joke that's sole purpose was to shift responsibility away from employer. Fall off a ladder? Tough, you did the ladder course so it's your fault.
Following the HSE link it states that deaths from working at height are on the rise. Unsurprising - we paid £6k for some work on the exterior of our house. Full scaffholding was installed and the guys worked safely. Neighbours accepted a quotation of £3k for the same work. Two ladder towers appeared linked by a sort of bridge to clear their conservatory and they worked off ladders for the rest. That HSE link also blames people buying ladders off Amazon and eBay for being much more likely to get into trouble than buying from big builders merchant chains. And as for safety assesments involving working from height on a wheelie bin..
My grandfather once put up a 30 foot wooden extension ladder in the gap between two hotels on the sea front. Then lifted another ladder and placed it on top of the first ladder, back across the gap from the far wall to the sign he was painting on the wall directly above the base of the first ladder, 50 to 60 feet up. Nothing bad happened ..
I remember (I was under 5 yrs old) when my dad was painting the window frames on the big house we lived in - living room was on 1st floor. He sat on a scaffold plank sticking out of the window, I have no idea how it was secured in the house. I can't remember that bit, but thinking back it was fricking scary and definitely not safe. By my dad's comparison, I think nothing was scary after being a welder at Harland & Wolf in the late 60s.
I worked with someone fixing windows who wanted me to hold his belt while he stood on a 4th floor windowsill outside to do some work because the alternative was have proper scaffold built and he didn't want the bother. I told him no chance. We worked for a company that was very safety first and would not have blinked at doing it properly. Maybe he thought the boss would be pleased. Quite the reverse in reality. If someone had seen that and reported it the company would likely have folded under the weight of the fines.
