Our health & safety looney's latest

Simply break open the emergency crowbar cabinet and carefully lever the
object up a small ramp onto the scales.

 

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This bitch is doing her utmost to keep employed.

There is, it's for picking up heavy objects that are on the floor. The one
you're going on only covers heavy objects stored at a minimum height of
1.2235 metres high.

And don't forget to bend your back either.


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I hope she doesn't read this or she'd got a job for life.

But it's also UNDER a desk, so it constitues yet another variable. Bending,
reaching and lifting. There's enough there for a whole SLEW of courses.


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Two days? This method involves machinery, so it's at least a weeks worth.


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Not to mention confined space entry

 

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 04:42:50 -0700, TOG@toil,

11kg! I wonder how I'm supposed to carry a 29kg x-ray head up a ladder?

 

Oh y ...

Nah.

 

Now *that* would take some careful wording to avoid a reprimand from the
Political Correctness monitor.

 

Sacrificial work-experience bods rated to 11kg?

 

Yo're a veterinary dentist?

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Under a desk is working in an "Over head environment" involving
"Penetration".

There's a PADI SCUBA course for that which involves a lamp and a length
of string.

Will that help?

 

If it's being run by Precious McKenzie, like they are where I work, it's
well worth going to and a bit of a giggle. If it is, it's more about
protecting your back from injury even in normal everyday tasks rather
than just lifting boxes of paper at work.

If it's some dullard waffling on about health and safety legislation,
then casually mention that you found a large metal object outside with
fins on it and ask for the best way of lifting it into the skip.

 

You think I do giraffes?
No, I'm an NDT bod (non-destructive testing).

 

"Using a dust mask" would be the obvious next course.


It might be

And "Using hazardous chemicals" would come immediately aftrwards.



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All parcels should be fitted with a Clifford alarm style informing anyone
who passes within 1 metre of it, the contents, weight and size. It should
also tap it out in morse for the deaf.

Agreed.


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mb wrote:

And maintain 3 points of contact at all times

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When I went on a "heavy lifting" course a few years ago, we weren't
actually allowed to lift anything vaguely heavy, so got to spenmd the
morning lifting empty cardboard boxes but *pretending* they were full
of reams of paper etc.

I nearly got a hernia from laughing.

 

Suggest that as a hazard for the risk assessment that no doubt had to be
done...

 

That has definitely made me giggle. I bet our course is the same.

 

That has definitely made me giggle. I bet our course is the same.[/QUOTE]

I imagine you could all have a lot of fun by pretending the boxes are
far heavier than they are and then faking multiple injuries all
requiring hospital treatment. Before the fun begins you could ask your
H&S person how her risk assessment for the training course deals with
the risk that people might go too far in the course and thus injure
themselves.