Hi all

we are looking to install anchorage points in designated work areas to attach restraint harnesses, would this be something insurers could inspect? Tag? SWL etc

on a separate issue, we are required to break ice during the winter months does anyone know of a safety device that could assist with this task

cheers

Dave

For a pic of safe breaking of ice: http://www.saversplanet....wallpapers_3750_1280.jpg

I regularly use this pic at the start of presentations. I was taught always to start with an icebreaker... Never understood why though :-} (Its Friday, sorry)

Steve

David

Breaking ice - If you are writing about employees spending time and effort breaking ice on ponds and similar features in parks and other public places during freezing weather, it's a futile exercise. The broken areas of ice soon freeze over again and little or nothing is gained in the way of safety. It's far better for councils and other relevant organisations to publicise the fact that going onto such ice is foolhardy, and also puts prospective rescuers at risk. As for dog walkers, they should be reminded to keep their pooches on leads when near ice-covered water. Each winter my employer's schools routinely remind their pupils about the dangers of ice covered ponds, etc., so hopefully repeated doses of such reminders will influence pupils while they are children and teenagers, and perhaps when they are older. Also, every winter regional TV news programmes show items with footage of nitwits who venture onto ice, sometimes after pet dogs, so there's no shortage of warnings.

Last winter the local fire brigade asked my employer, a local authority, to erect warning signs around a large frozen pond in a park after one of its team had rescued someone who had ventured onto the ice, probably to retrieve a dog which had gone onto the ice after some ducks. The response, based on a consensus among from various people in the council, was that providing such signs would be of little or no use for various reasons. These included their vulnerability to vandalism, the fact that local people already received ample warning advice by other means, and the advice on the signs was unlikely to have much influence on people who would venture onto ice covered ponds.