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Chart your views (4) What is the most useful piece of kit for your job?
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Posted By Anne Smart
Dear members,
This is the fourth in the 'Chart your views' series of questions, asking you to share your opinions on various topics relevant to the health and safety profession.
These questions have been introduced as part of the communications campaign around Chartered status, but you don't need to be CMIOSH or CFIOSH to post a response. We'd like to hear from you, regardless of your current membership category, professional experience or career path. Please don’t be shy, just be polite.
We may want to use your views as part of our ongoing media campaigns, but if we quote you directly we will contact you first.
Question (4) What is the most useful piece of kit or tool for your job?
Anne Smart, IOSH Media and Marketing Assistant
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Posted By Ben Keen
My brain.
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Posted By Andrew Böber
As a tangible thing then I would say that the most useful piece of tool / kit I have is my laptop (with the proviso it has internet accessibility). Generally though I would say that my education has been the most useful investment.
Andrew John Robertson Böber
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Posted By Merv Newman
30 years of experience paid for by other people
Merv
Have I missed questions 2 and 3 ? must go look
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Posted By Paul Leadbetter
Sense of humour
Paul
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Posted By Andrew Böber
Well if everyone is going to reply like that then: sense of tolerance
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Posted By Clairey O
Humour
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Posted By Andrew Böber
Humus
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Posted By Merv Newman
I see that I did answer question 3. What were 1 and 2 ?
Humus. is that a reference to "BS" as in Behavioural Safety ?
Or as in "mushroom training" ?
Some people think it comes to the same thing.
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Posted By Merv Newman
Anne,
are you really getting anything useful out of this exercise ? If you are just looking for things to pin up over your VDU I could simply send you a photo. Which would you prefer, the one taken against the grape vines, or the one showing six (empty) whiskey bottles in the background ?
Merv
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Posted By Smurfer
The inter-web!!!!!
when i think of all the time spent in the library or having to spend money on hse/env agency docs and now they're at the end of my fingers! ;-)
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Posted By Karen Todd
Digital camera. Other people can see what I mean instantly, even if they weren't at the site with me.
KT
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Posted By Raymond Rapp
The RLF procedure, if things go badly wrong - Run like f...
Ray
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Posted By Jonathan Sandler
We the unheroic lead by the unknowing, doing the immposible for the ungrateful. We have done so much for so long that we are now qualified (Chartered) to do anything with nothing.
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Posted By Brett Day
MagLite, the number of plant rooms where the light switch is over the other side past all the things to trip and fall over, rather than by the door !!
Advanced driver training, makes driving a lot less stressful !
Digital camera, for reasons already given.
My safety 'library' - two CD's with ACoP's, Guidance, British Standards, Photo's and presentations lives in the car and comes in really handy when some berk on site says 'Show me where it says....'
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Posted By John Webster
Waste paper basket
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Posted By john fitzgibbon
My anorak
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Posted By Philip Roberts
My most useful pieces kit is access to web based information such as Barbours, Croners or Technical Index etc. I also use a Legislation Compliance Matrix which is used as an indication of how compliant the business is with relevant legislation going from Red through Amber, Pale Green to Dark Green as action plans to improve compliance come to fruition. After two years of using the matrix there are no Reds or Amber's left and only a few pale greens. It works for me.
regards
Phil Roberts MIOSH (C due in December)
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Posted By Nigel Hammond
My PC. I cannot imagine a H&S career without it. Instant access to the WWW, instant email to loads of people at once, spell checks, clip-art to make H&S documents look more appealing, searching tools to find old documents without having to trawl through archives of dusty old paper work, digital photographs, powerpoint, spreadsheets, databases, designing instant preofessional looking forms, this forum, etc etc.
Also, I don't have to rely on others to read my writing to get things typed. I can type as I think - but was never much good at writing as I think.
The telephone, notebook, PDA, mobile phone, pen drive and pen are also quite handy.
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Posted By Jeff Manion
Knowing that even I have limitations and can talk to others and use them as sounding board
JM CMIOSH
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Posted By martin mckeown
Ability to accept the criteria of the job role:-
When things go well, Who needs Health & Safety
When things go wrong, Health & Safety is to blame.
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Posted By renown
Being able to use this site and get the benefits of excellent professional advice whenever I have a query. There are a lot of people in this forum who go that extra mile to help others with the benefit of their experience. Something you cant get from books/magazines etc
DH TechIOSH, MIIRSM
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Posted By Richard Spencer
The generosity of other safety professionals and a calling for this type of role.
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Posted By Colin Richard Stokes
A good digital camera, a comfy pair of safety boots and a really thick skin. Fridays.
Colin
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Posted By Martin R. Bessant
Things I cannot survive without are:
My Fast Computer, Broadband Internet Access and the IOSH Website, especially the web forums!
Just because I am retired does not mean that I do not keep active.
Martin Bessant, MSc., CFIOSH, FIBMS.
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Posted By Andy Petrie
my iPod
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Posted By Anne Smart
To answer Merv's question (about what we hope to get from this particular thread) - some interesting nuggets of information, and maybe some soundbites for PR purposes.
The questions I've been posting ask for either a professional or personal opinion, and also include a question on the Careers Forum.
Thank you to everyone who has posted so far, and keep the views coming.
Anne Smart, IOSH Media and Marketing Assistant
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Posted By Debbie S
First and foremost my computer as it has everyting on it to do with my job (heaven help the Company if I departed and forgot to leave my password cause they'd have to re-type everything)and access to the internet and all those very useful websites, including this one as its amazing what you can pick up on a daily basis.
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Posted By ITK
Section 20 Powers!!!
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Posted By Jonathan Carrick
Lots of things really, just like other posters have said. Examples include a strong sense of humour/ tolerance/ patience; a mobile phone; pocket toolkit (including maglite); etc., etc., . . . The list is endless. Arguably the most important of all nowadays is probably access to the internet by whatever means – otherwise how would we respond to this and other threads??!! (Anne, I am not having a dig – I genuinely find great value from the internet in general and this chat forum in particular).
JC
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Posted By Gordon Thelwell
A pretty broad question but the first three things that come to mind are:
1: The Internet (never, in the history of Health and Safety have so many, owed so much to few)
2: My Rapid Results NEBOSH DiP course.
3: My attitude of 'Hope for the best, prepare for the worst'.
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Posted By Alex Ryding
The most useful tool to me?
Other safety personnel
T'internet
Camera
They would be top of my list
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Posted By Helen Horton
Top of my list is a sense of humour - already mentioned I think by Paul Leadbetter but oh so essential.
Second is patience.
Third is a more tangible item which is good reference material.
and finally something I couldn't operate without at all is my trusty Peugeot 206, without which I couldn't get to where I needed to be.
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Posted By Dave Wilson
Golf Clubs! and an Annual Mandatory Safety KPI & KRA - 100% success all the time, no KPI no Management Bonus!!
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Posted By Ken Taylor
In the office it has to be the computer and the filing cabinets full of information. On site it's a white safety helmet and a serious tie (to make one look important enough to listen to and, hopefully, take notice of).
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Posted By Barry Cooper
As many have already said
Internet access (particularly to this site)
Digital camera
Laptop
and never give up!
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Posted By George Wedgwood
Quite simply, it is my digital camera and laptop. Next would be my car!
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Posted By Paul Skelding
Common sense, experience in the areas you are working in, no good just having fantastic knowledge of rules, regulations, acts etc. have you every worked or walked the shop floor?
Immensely thick skin is useful, and the ability to be multifunctional and adapt to the surroundings and people you work with.
Long and short of it, the type of person you are will either influence or distance the groups you advise or manage for, you are the most important tool of the job.
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Posted By Nigel Hammond
I've just got Sat Nav in my car - wow! As someone who visits lots of sites and has a knack of getting lost. This is a really useful tool!
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Posted By Pete Walker
When you have your qualification and then built up your experience you can use the much loved "so far as is reasonably practicable" to the best advantage for H&S. Every one must have used it?
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