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Posted By Safe System
Just a bit of Friday fun...
I was at a gig on Wednesday night listening to a rather loud band... it's now Friday and i still have a ringing/static noise in my ears.... great night!
however, when i am at work, any slight noise on site that is exceeding 85dba and i am harping on about hearing protection and making the guys wear their defenders... so do i practice what i preach?! It would appear not!
So do you? when your pottering around your garden (no acrynom quotes please!) or doing some DIY .. do you practice what YOU preach?
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Posted By Donna
Quick answer - No
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Posted By Flic
yes, most of the time.
Judging from the gales of laughter when I come to work with a Sport's injury, do you really think I want to come to work with a DIY injury!! I'd never live it down.
Flic
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Posted By Decimomal
I guess the difference is the being at work aspect.
I like to think I practice what I preach, but as the one in the family who sticks to the speed limit at all times I am the one with the points!!(Doh)
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Posted By Bob Youel
Yes: In most circumstances - its behaviour change. As leadership is what is required and if we don't do it who will!
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Posted By WayneF
I am the one who stood on an operators chair at home to reach a cupboard, spun round and broke my fall with my breaking wrist. Also had a few near misses with the heated paint stripper and over exposed flesh.
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Posted By Safe System
Wayne.. shouldn't laugh... ;)
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Posted By Dave Merchant
Not in the slightest; but it's 20 years of hobbies which try to kill me on a minute-by-minute basis that allows me to teach the H&S topics I do. Have you any idea how many forms I'd need to fill in for using explosives underwater in a confined space? Come the weekend, and it's just me and the occasional sheep to worry about...
(being good at sheep worrying is a requirement of living in Wales. There's a by-law...)
Though this year I'm taking it a little easier as someone bet be 50 quid I'd be dead before 2010, and I could do with the cash.
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Posted By andy.c.
At work i would be publicly humiliated hour on hour for weeks if one of the several hundred H&S police (rest of the workforce)caught ME breaking the rules, however the comments written on my plaster cast after an unfortunate incident with a loft hatch, banister rail and a set of step ladders are not printable.
Andy
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Posted By John Donaldson
Yes, in general but it does not always work.
As I once found out to my cost when the link on a chain, which was securing a ladder, opened.
You would not believe the comments I got from my colleagues in the sector, well perhaps you would!!
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Posted By R McGraa
The best Game Keepers are ex Poachers...
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Posted By Raymond Rapp
Most of the time, but then again, I do not agree with overlapping work issues with home life.
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Posted By Southerner
Nope definitely not.
My personal risk I take considerably different to business/corporate risk.
I dont think twice about going out at the weekend and reaching speeds of 160+mph on my bike. Work I take seriously though.
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Posted By clairel
What's health and safety??? ;-)
In all seriousness. Nope, I am the first one to take risks and do dodgy things.
Do lots of dangerous sports (but that's been covered in other threads - although I do wear helmets etc.)
But also prone to doing stupid things like cutting the grass in bare feet, standing on a swivel chair to change a light bulb and tinkering with something without turning off the power. We won't even go into how I have painted my stairway. Something to do with standing on the bannister, a harness and a willing husband. Rarely use pedestrian crossings either.
Inherent risk taker me!!
...maybe it's a good idea that I'm leaving the profession!!! :-)
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Posted By FAH
This is a real "sucker" question that invites people to publicly throw the rotten tomatoes at themselves!!
As I've never been able to resist such a challenge; I'll start with this - "I'm a safety consultant but I'm not perfect!". We've all done things that we'd prefer not to put too far into the public domain.
In my non-work related activities, my behaviour will be moderated by a range of considerations [top of the list is a frequently applied comment - "And you're the safety guy!?!?" Guess who uses that the most? Closely followed by the 2 more survival aware grandchildren who constantly ask me about "how to do" stuff.
When it's just me though, my guiding principle is to survive long enough to get back all of the money that I've paid into the system in tax & pension contributions - although it's fairly certain that some of my bits may not work as desired by then!
Frank Hallett
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Posted By Merv Newman
Oh boy. Two members of this household are H&S consultants and the third has lived with it for at least 30 years. You try not doing it !
Safety shoes (no laces for easy-on-easy-off) stored by the kitchen door with leather gloves and a bump cap, my normal glasses are safety rated, change into prescribed work clothing (reallyreally ratty jeans and holy T-shirt)
And I gave up WAH and MH years ago. Shortly after I gave up squash. (playing, not drinking)
Merv
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Posted By clairel
Merv, you need a life!
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Posted By clairel
We could give up smoking and drinking and fatty foods and doing pretty much anything that may harm us and live to 100..
...but who would want to live a life like that! I'd rather live to 60 and enjoy it a little :-)
I was galloping and jumping in the hills on the back of a very flighty horse last weekend. Risky - absolutely. Fun - you bet!!
Not ashamed to admit it either.
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Posted By Southerner
The third person (child? Irony) still living with you after 30 years also needs a life.
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Posted By alan noble
I've never had an electric lawnmower that I haven't run over the cable of, God bless RCD's. I once ran over the same cable 3 times in one lawn cut!
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Posted By safetyamateur
Alan, are you absolutely sure that safety's the profession for you?
Ha! Done it meself with a hedgetrimmer. I blessed the RCD but it neer even kicked in, too clean a cut they tell me. Lucky stars
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Posted By Stuie
Me - totectors and safety glasses when cutting the lawn along with the customary shorts - not a pretty sight - especially when I get the strimmer out and cut my shins to shreds on the flying stones!! No gloves etc when laying the patio and filling the joints with a dry mix of sand/cement!! No I don't always practice what I preach but I do try not to cause myself major problems - I could not face the ribbing on Monday!! Good weekend to all - don't forget the sunblock!
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Posted By Graham Bullough
To answer the original question I suppose I try to practice what I preach when away from work, whether doing DIY jobs at home or during my activities like mine exploration, ski-touring or mountain scrambling. For example, before dismantling an old redundant chimney on my house some years ago I fixed an eye bolt into the wall below for securing my ladder in place, and also roped myself on so that I could work with both hands free.
However, before you think what a flaming “goody two shoes” this guy is, I’d better add that I had a notable accident in 2001 and it was at work! I misjudged the height of a low looped chain in a dimly lit car park while in a hurry to get somewhere, tripped over it and broke an elbow in breaking my fall. Cue amusement of others at work. Several days later I chaired a meeting of the IOSH Manchester Public Services Section (a superb group in my totally unbiased opinion) with the then President of IOSH as a guest, so the sight of my arm in a sling amused even more people. On a poignant note, none of us there are likely to forget the date of the meeting as 11th Sept 2001 because during our refreshment break we were able to see live & almost live TV footage of the horrific events of “9/11” involving the Twin Towers in New York.
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Posted By patrick carr
I was ashamed of myself last Sunday, house full of PPE and there was me astride the garden shed roof, electric shears in 2 hands (needs 2 hands to operate)reaching out to cut the top of the Privet hedge. One look from the Wife said it all.
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Posted By Steve M Granger
NO HE DOES NOT!!!!
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Mrs Steve
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Posted By Garry Mcglaid
A big fat no,
The wife has been banging on about how dangerous the microwave is and needs replaced. And dont even mention the electrics.
The kids are wondering when i,m going to oil the bikes and take of the rusty stabilisers,
And my mother is wondering when i,m going to put my long lost joinery skills to use and stop the kitchen unit doors from falling on her head.
And while that is going on i light up the fattest cuban cigar, take a sip from a nice Austrailian Shiraz, and say chill out folks.
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Posted By ScotsAM
Sounds you need a maintenance department at home garry.
I recently took part in a works day out go-karting.
Everybody had a good laugh about me risk assessing it etc.
Once the lights turned green though, who was the person recklessly throwing themselves into the corners and aggresively forcing their way to the front?
That's right the 'safety guy'!
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Posted By Jack
"I'd rather live to 60 and enjoy it a little"
Does that mean I have to start taking it easy now that I've reached that age? I suppose you'll expect me to use pedestrian crossings too!
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Posted By Andy Petrie
It is very difficult to remind people of our corporate alcohol policy when you in a round with them in the pub.
"Can I advise you that you are not allowed more than 7 units of alcohol if working the next day, make mine a Stella"
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