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Seamusosullivan  
#1 Posted : 26 April 2010 11:53:11(UTC)
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Last week I attended a training course (as a learner). Before the course had started, a participtant, who had just entered the room before me tripped on an obvious buldge on the floor covering, this caused the individual to fall against the side of a pointy table, and then sustained, a bang on side of face, a broken nose, plently blood loss, and had to go to hospital (accident and emergency) and remained there for about 6 hours. Did anyone ever hear/see of accidents at training courses before.
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mallen  
#2 Posted : 26 April 2010 12:31:29(UTC)
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I would be interested to know what the course was on...... obviosly not Risk Assessment!
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tabs  
#3 Posted : 26 April 2010 13:32:17(UTC)
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Yes. I twisted my ankle at IOSH HQ :-) I was doing an external survey looking for problems with roofing, guttering, etc., and managed to find the only uneven part of the back lawn. We were on a business risk course. It happens to the best of us.
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wazimu0  
#4 Posted : 26 April 2010 14:53:15(UTC)
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I wasn't on a course, but I was preparing to teach one. Printing off example risk assessments from the photocopier. As I pulled a sheet off the copier I sustained a 2cm paper cut to my left hand. Oops! Do I now need to do a risk assessment on doing risk assessments?
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Seamusosullivan  
#5 Posted : 26 April 2010 15:40:59(UTC)
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Mallen wrote:
I would be interested to know what the course was on...... obviosly not Risk Assessment!
It was on employment law, and the law on redundancy
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SW  
#6 Posted : 27 April 2010 09:09:27(UTC)
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On the first day of a First Aid at Work course, I walked into the room, caught my finger on the door latch and cut it open. Luckily there was a first aider on hand.......to deal with my embarrassment
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