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Posted By Phill Firmin
By way of a reminder an acronym is a pronouncable name made up from a series of initial letters.
They serve as a useful reminder, so have a guess and use them (each followed by a clue):
ERIC PD (RA)
PEMEC (SSW)
TOIL (MH)
SIMON (Personal)
Some of these are well known, perhaps there are others we can all benefit from - if so tell us?
Answers to be revealed soon if you can't get them.
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Posted By Gilly Margrave
Shall I kick off with
Elimination
Reduction
Isolation
Control
PPE
Discipline
Not bad for a dumb blond on a Friday afternoon eh?
Gilly
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Posted By Patrick Guyomard
Never
Assume
Find
Out
Facts
First
Always a winner when the manager walks in saying 'I assume you....'
Pad
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Posted By Gilly Margrave
Patrick,
Is that linked to FOFO?
Gilly
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Posted By Patrick Guyomard
Gilly
Am I going to regret this?
What's FOFO?
Hesitantly yours
Pad
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Posted By Gilly Margrave
Yes Pad you are going to regret it!
It stands for Eff Off & Find Out!
Gilly;)
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Posted By Patrick Guyomard
Wonderful Gilly - how did I missed that? It's better than the accidents one, AFLO Another Effin Learning Oppertunity.
Thanks for the laugh and have a great weekend
Pad
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Posted By Raymond Rapp
When things are not going according to plan, operate the RLF procedure...Run Like F*%$
Have a good one.
Ray
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Posted By Brett Day
There are those who go by the WAG approach or in labs go for SWAG
(Scientific) Wild Ar*! Guess.
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Posted By Chris Packham
Surprised no-one has come up with the two old chesnuts.
There I was and the situation was SNAFU
"Cheer up!" said the manager, "It could be worse."
So I cheered up, and it became FUBAR.
SNAFU (Situation normal, all fouled up)
FUBAR (Fouled up beyond all recognition)
Of course, you could substitute another word for "fouled", but my generation is too polite!!!
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Posted By Allan St.John Holt
A couple to raise a smile:
TTFO was the shorthand at medical school for a diagnosis of 'Too Trivial for Opinion' when people present with a general complaint but there's probably nothing wrong with them! Some years later I was told that it really stood for Told To F*** Off.
Most people will be familiar with BATNEEC - Best available technology not entailing excessive cost. An organisation I'm closely connected to has apparently coined an alternative:
CATNIP
Cheapest Available Technology Not Involving Prosecution....
Best to all,
Allan
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Posted By J Knight
Well, my only contribution was going to be RTFM, and if you don't know what that means try the longer LIUITFM. However, I found some brilliant examples on businessballs.com, including MTBBCM, which is mean time between changes of mind (not exactly H&S as such but evidently closely related to MTBF) and PICNIC, problem in chair not in computer; again not particularly H&S but I'm sure we all know what the originator was trying to say,
John
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Posted By gilbo gaggings
whilst in the forces, I understood NAAFI to stand for Navy, Army and Air Force institutions, but now in civvy street, it means no ambition and f***all interest.
gilbo
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Posted By Danny Swygart
Doctors in my region have been known to write NFN on the patients notes of some of the strange individuals presenting themselves at the surgery (NFN = Normal for Norfolk).
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Posted By Heather Collins
JFDI - we used to tell people this stood for "Joint Forces Defence Initiative" - needles to say it does not (just effin do it)
Friday is POETS day of course.
I was once told by a Doctor about HEFT Book syndrome where an individual was said to have "had every effin thing" in the book.....
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Posted By Paul Leadbetter
But, TBC, that list doesn't have any funny ones in it!
Paul
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Posted By TBC
Fun is for the weekend (Friday, Saturday and I noticed some on Monday - shame on you). Get on with some work :-)
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Posted By Paul Leadbetter
But work is fun (or maybe I should just get out more)!
Paul
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Posted By Gary IMD(UK)
If work isn't fun... Change it!
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Posted By Jack
We still have some way to to catch up with the medics:
CTD - Circling the Drain (expected to croak soon)
GPO - Good for Parts Only
GOK - God Only Knows (as diagnosis).
TEETH - Tried Everything Else, Try Homeopathy
UBI - Unexplained Beer Injury
FLK - Funny looking kid
GROLIES - Guardian Reader Of Low Intelligence in Ethnic Skirt.
TTFO - Told To Go Away (or something)
LOBNH - Lights On But Nobody Home
CNS-QNS - Central Nervous System - Quantity Not Sufficient
DBI - Dirt Bag Index (multiplies no. of tattoos with no. of missing teeth to give an estimate of days since patient last washed.
PAFO - [expletive deleted]ed And Fell Over
AGA - Acute Gravity Attack
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Posted By John-Mark
best laugh I've had in my dinner hour for a long time!
JM
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Posted By KEVIN O'KANE
One I use on training courses for managers, when trying to get buy in at all levels on safety is.... you will always have the CAVE people in evey organisation, they are....Citizens Against Virtually Everything!!
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Posted By Phill Firmin
Many thanks to all who have contributed to this thread - amusing or otherwise! Since no one actually responded to the original list here are the answers - hope you find something useful here!!!
ERICPD - Eliminate, Reduce, Isolation, Controls, PPE, Discipline.
PEMEC - Procedures, Equipment, Materials, Environment, Competence.
TOIL - Time Off In Lieu (Actually meant to put TILE - Task, Individual, Load, Environment).
SIMON - Safety Is My Other Name.
Take care (Watch your back!!)
Phill.
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Posted By Phill Firmin
Apologies to Gilly Margrave who clearly knew the first one!!
Phill.
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