This is taking H&S too far.......

[Woodzie]

..............http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/b...ts/7055362.stm


Ladder work !!!!

[joker??]

perhaps the have the wrong type of ladders

[mark g8awo]

You think about it if i was to take H & S to the letter i would have to get a scaffold team in to put up a cradle round a stack plus scaffold the front of the house just to put up a TV aerial end result would a bill of £1000 plus to watch tv....But most of the bill would end up going to the scaffolders and not me.....I dont Fink so

[fatfires]

just as I was retiring from the fire service a directive came out that went along the lines of 'if a crew member is working at height a safety line and harness should be provided so as to afford safety to the operative'
I asked the question....if the need is for a firefighter to get to the top of a chimney to apply water to a chimney fire, having been unsucsessful in extinguishing it from the fireplace.........
to afford safety it follows the line should be fixed higher than the wearer -
who fixes that line?
what is higher than a chimney on a roor for example?
what safety line does the safety line fixer use..if there is indeed a place to fix it?
do we just say to the householder - sorry, have to let it burn as it is too hazerdous to climb a ladder Ooooorrrr can you wait for a turntable ladder or hydrolic platform to come....wont take long....only got to come 20 miles.....or is it in workshops........erm no, our one is out of action might just have to wait for the one to come from the next county
SOUND FAMILLIAR????????????????
thank god I am out of this beauocratic nightmare

[Karma Supra]

We had the sky man round to look at our dish... He eventually turned up. got out his van, looked atour dish, gave that sharp intake of breath noise and said "I can't to that, its on the roof, I need specialist equipment"

Where else was he expecting a disk to be exactly?

[adm_sx]

Tony,

As i am still in the middle of the beaurocratic nightmare... I can tell you that to top a pot safely we are supposed to order an aerial where ever possible, and we are also supposed to use scaffold hooks on a harness when working off the face of a ladder for any significant length of time... Typical fire service never defined any significant length of time... so seeing as i am not likely to be there for what is in my opinion a significant length of time i dont wear it (also have an issue with being strapped to anything that may topple... I'd rather have a chance to jump albeit slim)

that said they dont give off when we use a 135 (ladder) to rescue a seagull from a TV aerial.. go figure?!

[dirtydog]

We had the sky man round to look at our dish... He eventually turned up. got out his van, looked atour dish, gave that sharp intake of breath noise and said "I can't to that, its on the roof, I need specialist equipment"

Where else was he expecting a disk to be exactly?

maybe in your PC?
seriously thats a joke! anything to rip you off

[Highlander1]

A colleague recently entered a burning building to save a lady from house fire. Unfortunately she didn't survive despite his best efforts. Did he get any thanks no he was reprimanded verbally for entering the building before the fire service arrived.

He was able to direct the fire guys to the lady who later died as a result of smoke inhalation.

The worlds gone mad the poor sod should have at least have been given a well don't worry you tried and did what you could in the line of duty.

Well didn't we sign up to save life and limb I give up.

[da SLUG man]

last company i worked for banned us from climbing on the bed of the trailer with the curtains open!!...

i asked how we were supposed to rope and sheet a flatbed, but that was different!!

but there was a big fuss as the older trailers didn't have ladders, so we couldn't get in the back doors...