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Not at work I know, but remember doing an level physics experiment where we measured the isolation of a crystal by smoking a drum which revolved while the crystal operated. To produce the smoke we burnt Benzene.
The same experiment came up in the exam, but by then we were reduced to using a smoking candle - you could hardly see the trace on the drum.
Brian
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Used to regularly shin 100ft up a column, place a podger (spanner with a pointed end) into one of the connection holes and sit on it and wait for the crane beam to arrive.
Also used to walk on roof purlins to the centre and place a sag rod in which took the whip out of it.
I couldn't do it now and even if i was able to, i wouldn't do it now if someone had an AK47 up my rear end.
Grinding off sprayed fire proofing was another of my early tasks in the 70's.
Let's hope those good old days don't return too quickly.....
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frankc wrote:Used to regularly shin 100ft up a column, place a podger (spanner with a pointed end) into one of the connection holes and sit on it and wait for the crane beam to arrive.
Also used to walk on roof purlins to the centre and place a sag rod in which took the whip out of it.
I couldn't do it now and even if i was able to, i wouldn't do it now if someone had an AK47 up my rear end.
Grinding off sprayed fire proofing was another of my early tasks in the 70's.
Let's hope those good old days don't return too quickly.....
I feel sick just thinking about that- I hate heights.
Andy
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Going back to Farrell's opening, if you work in OS&H and someone asks what you do for a living don't just say "occupational safety and health" - be positive and a bit provocative by adding something like "but not what most people and the media tend to think it's about!" Gauge the response to this and then tailor your subsequent discussion accordingly. It's worth a go.
I make no apologies for echoing one of my pet themes on this forum, namely about being an OS&H 'ambassador' when suitable opportunities arise. However, if you discern you're with someone who has a blinkered and possibly media-induced bias which cannot be altered, then don't be a pedant and waste time in trying to change their attitude.
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Ah happy days!
As a 17yr old working in a plastic recycling factory I had to climb to the top of a vertical tower, remove the manhole cover at the top, step back whilst the acrylic monomer fumes vented, and then dangle a jam-jar on a string into the noxious flammable liquid to collect a sample for analysis. It was clearly too much trouble to fit a tap!
Prepared Ford gear sticks for chrome plating by degreasing them in a trike tank (only put my watch into it once...), cleaning them in caustic soda (that stuff stings when it gets into cuts!) and then skimming the top surface off with an abrasive belt polisher. Gloves?? PPE??
Moonlighted as a security guard as a student wandering around a flour mill, wondering if I could smoke or not and what I was supposed to do with the hairy alsatian I had been given for company.
Just a few examples of fun things to do at work several years after the HASAWA came in.....
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Casual visitors to the site should be aware that this topic was a 'fun' topic and the advice in it turned into a pumpkin at midnight.
As it is no longer Friday the topic is now locked
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