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Posted By Jonathan Breeze
Merv,
If it's the same toy I've looked at, then the 'lava' is created by a bubble solution with a red dye added.
You wouldn't (well I wouldn't anyway) normally use goggles when washing the dishes or insist on them for my child when blowing bubbles, so they are probably redundant in this case.
Still, it's the message it portrays.
Of course, it might not be the same toy I looked at...
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Posted By Ron Hunter
A "Toy" that required the use of PPE would fall foul of the Toy Safety Regulations, however I agree that the real problems lie with mixed messages.
Then again, we come across pix like this routinely in trade and other journals,TV programs, etc. What do we do? If we cry 'foul' every time, then we are branded killjoys and jobsworths - hence the dilemma faced by today's H&S professionals. One sensible solution is to strive to better educate our young people on sensible risk control and to improve their protection when entering the world of work (hence this years european campaign). In those respects, the picture is doubly disappointing.
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Posted By Mark Eastbourne
I agree that the article portrayed a mixed message. I doubt whether they would sell as many toys if the kid had the safety goggles actually on her! Not quite sure if I would buy the toy for my little ones if I had to carry out a COSHH assessment!
That was an interesting comment about a toy and PPE though and it reminded me about the week end.
Not sure what head I was wearing at the week end but I nearly bought a pogo stick at a car boot fayre. However, I thought that if I were to buy this then I would also need to buy a helment, elbow pads and knee pads but was this as a result of being a H&S type person or a concerned parent?
As I had this thought though, I became aware of a little struggle inside me as I debated about whether it was a good thing to let my little man have a few scrapes and bruises from falling off the pogo stick while playing. Was I going over the top in thinking of buying PPE?
I have digressed from the original post, but to bring it back a little bit, I wonder if kids chemistry sets teach them to do COSHH assessments!?
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Posted By Jeffrey Watt
"Never let the truth get in the way of a good story."
...and for photographers-"Never let a reflection get in the way of a good picture." hence goggles on head to see the eyes.
The story was about a magnet balancing game winning a prize but we have a photo of the runner up a volcano toy, cos it was the most exciting picture from the snappers roll (or SD CARD) on the day.
Explains why but don't mean to justify it.
Plus do you remember how bloomin painful school chemistry goggles were Ouch, designed by Tomas de Torquemada or what?
Jeff
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Posted By Booney
Jeff,
going off thread a bit here but I recall one of our Physics teachers conducting an 'experiment' with electricity where he placed his hand on some sort of generator with a metal dome on top, started the genny up and then got 4 or 5 pupils to link hands and he brought his fist up to the first pupils arm and zapped all of them with an electrical discharge!
Would they do that these days?
Sorry, I digress...
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Posted By JM82
Booney - Sounds like a Van de Graff (sp?) Machine!
Yuck!
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Posted By Tabs
We did that ... it made our hair stand up.
Of course these days, you would not get the same reaction ... just a gentle wiff of melting hair gel!
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Posted By James Perry
Best bit was when "Sir" would hold a 5 foot fluorescent tube in his hand and place it near the Van der graaf thingy and it would light up!
Closest thing to magic we ever saw!
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Posted By Jeffrey Watt
You are into territory here that belongs to my all time science hero Nicola Tesla.
The inventor of the AC paradigm, the flyback transformer (produces the high tension spark to start your car and the initial high voltage burst for the CRT in your tv to work), inventor of the radio (US court held in 1947 decision that Tesla had invented the radio just before Marconi, may have been a politically motivated decision though) inventor of the fluorescent lamp and the Tesla coil. Died penniless and ridiculed by many.
The lit lamp at a distance is sometimes referred to as the Tesla effect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_effect
Hero worship over.
Jeff
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Posted By John Lewis
When I were a lad in Yorkshire our form room was actually a science lab. Naturally, people played with the experiments prepared the previous evening by the teacher. We were always being told not to but kids being kids we persisted.
One day we all arrived and teach' told us not to touch the curious square black things with the wires hanging out. One lad did and got zapped by a massive charge. It was a capacitor!
Needless to say the message got home and further touching just did not happen. Imagine doing that these days ..... teacher sued, school sued, teacher struck off (or whatever happens to them), child receives pay out. Is it just me?
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Posted By Jeffrey Watt
John
You can kill people with capacitors so maybe he should have been admonished in some way.....
I shorted a flash gun capacitor through my hand once, camera was at my face and I felt my fillings go all tingly, mouth tasted of metal for a few seconds. I didn't feel the need to sue Pentax though.
Jeff
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