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Posted By Andrew Cartridge
I came across this situation yesterday during a routine site inspection:
In discussions with the site manager, he was proud to tell & show me his wonderful welfare arrangements, which were pristine.
I asked him was all of the equipment in the canteen PAT tested he confirmed that it was & showed me records of the testing. As I was walking off site, I spotted gas bottle with the hose leading into a storage container??????
On further inspection I found a group of guys huddled around a gas ring cooking egg bacon etc, when I asked what they were doing & why, their response was that the site manager had banned them & their food from the canteen, because it was new & he wanted to keep it that way!!! Which explained it’s pristine condition.
About turn, back to see the site manager & a short explanation of the Welfare regs to him, was enough to get the guys their canteen back, he denied he had “banned” the lads, & that it was only a joke.
I just wondered if anybody else had experience anything similar!!!!
Regards
Andy
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Posted By Jeffrey Watt
I remember hearing from a colleague something similar that happened from years ago.
Guys were using a gas cylinder on site for cooking and heating. But it was winter and to get the last dregs of LPG out they lit a small fire with cardboard under the bottle. It didn't BLEVE. For a fuller explanation read the Basic Laws of Human Stupidity thread.
In my Dad's day you never missed your Ulster Fry in the morning(if you haven't experienced an Ulster Fry you haven't lived, those that have don't have long to live). But they always kept a "clean" shovel as a frying pan to get the soda, fadge and black pudding sizzling.
In the interest of occupational hygiene, the "clean" shovel was the one never used to dig a latrine.
Dynamo
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Posted By Glyn Atkinson
I've heard of railway workers in the days of steam also using the clean shovel cooking technique - I bet these cooking products also tasted great as well - bacon in a microwave - yuk !!!!
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Posted By Andy Walker
Whilst serving in the forces I ate baked potatoes cooked on a tank engine exhaust manifold after being wrapped in tinfoil(Tasted great). Never saw the bacon and eggs cooked on the engine decks like they were supposed to have done in WW2 though!!
Andy W
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Posted By Joe Ridley
Hi there,
Not directly applicable to workers, but recently we had to monitor the goings on in one of our saunas (in a sports centre) as some men had the bright idea of using the sauna coals to cook some pies...I believe they wrapped them in tinfoil and sat them on the coals while frequently pouring water on to the coals...wont be long until a snack shop opens...
Joe
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Posted By Glyn Atkinson
Strange sauna contradiction -
sauna - lose weight -
eat pies - put weight back on -
costs double the money, pie + sauna hire - end result - no weight loss and heavy sweating ??
bet they take their beer into the wet steam room ??
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Posted By Jeffrey Watt
Glyn
My dad grew up beside a railway station, probably where they got the idea.
Jeff
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Posted By Jeffrey Watt
My dad and his mates that is got he idea....not the entire railway network of the British Isles got the idea from my Dad.....Although he was a bit of a dude, I wouldn't be surprised.
Jeff
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Posted By Alan Woodage
One for all the welders and platers amongst us, Cooking pies, Pasty's sausage rolls and come to mention it anything we could get in the Rod oven or if you were out on site you cant beat the long sausage roll in the Rod Quiver. you could always tell when the welding inspector made a suprise visit because the whole place had an aromour of a bakery and lots of guy's running around with tin foil parcels. Also used to do Toast and toated sandwhiches on Halogen lights, A little piece of wire mesh or if you were posh you made a toat hood from Stainless welding rods. Never did me anyharm, Also proper railwaymen never keep a clean shovel!! you just steam clean it under the drain cock.
Anyhow wouldn't dream of such antics now I am a forthright member of the safety proffession.
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Posted By Merv Newman
just looked up from this computer, and there on the shelf is a mug presented to me years back by some BR managers I was training. It says "Loco mad"
I remember once reading about a rally club. They would go on the usual treasure hunt but when they all met up at the end of the day, up would go the bonnets and out would come the hot pies, baked fish, sausages ...
Merv
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Posted By Steve Hickey
Jeffery
Ulster Fry - now you’re taking me back to my childhood in Liverpool. I now live in North Wales and whenever I mention that delicacy in this part of the world nobody knows what I’m talking about. What a way to start off a Sunday morning Ulster fry, sausage and eggs.
Thanks for the memory Jeff
Steve
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Posted By Helen Horton
I once came across a makeshift cooking arrangement in an aluminium casting plant. The operator had hollowed out a small section of the lagging on the casting machine that was just big enough to take a can of soup. On the day I visited he was warming a can of oxtail and toasting his bread by holding it over the surface of the molten metal - another example of the ingenuity of the British workforce!
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Posted By jackw.
When I was an apprentice toolmaker many years ago (remember them), We would heat up food in the furnace in the tool hardening and tempering area .. found out later that a cyanide bath used for this was located next to where we put the pies, sausage rolls, bridies etc to heat. .. din't do me any harm..i hope.
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