Thread: Lathe safety (off topic prevention)

Originally Posted by sacc51

Unfortunately there is no 'in between' in anything these days, it's all or nothing. But the bottom line is: everybody has a right to work in safe environment and go home at the end of the day in one piece. Better too many silly rules than none at all!

I disagree about the too many silly rules, you just end up paying off all the rules and miss the good rules. Common sense and personal responsibility should apply.

Ben.

I don't know my work is a WHS nightmare, Some rules are just silly a case in point a guy at my Tafe ripped his tendon from his hand, on a drillpress because it was mandatory site policy that gloves are to be worn at all times and guess what his glove got caught

Originally Posted by eskimo

Same as one of my customers...must also wear a hard hat while accending and decending.. and must keep it on while on the roof ...low flying pelicans or something I reckon

also, the thermostats installed at their premises are a tad too high for myself to get to see wiring terminals so one day I used my 3 foot steps and was standing on the first rung from the floor (thats about 12inches from the floor) and the OHSW officer blasted me for not wearing a hard hat...inside the office...apparently I can use one of these though


without a hard hat.

The other day i was at work, was early morning so not everyone was onsite yet, small job anyway, i was in a corner on my own. No one around me within 20m or more. I was working on my bench and i took my hard hat off and placed it right next to me. Had gloves and glasses on. Well the builder seem me and made a big issue about me not having my hat on and wanted to send me for a reinduction. I really dont get it somtimes. Yes i understand the site requires you to have ppe on at all times but come on. Half the time i dont even see a need for hardhats fullstop.

Originally Posted by welder

I don't know my work is a WHS nightmare, Some rules are just silly a case in point a guy at my Tafe ripped his tendon from his hand, on a drillpress because it was mandatory site policy that gloves are to be worn at all times and guess what his glove got caught

I taught the basic OH&S module enough times to tell you its almost engrained into students .If a machine tool is rotating,you keep any clothing including gloves and unbuttoned shirt sleeves away.The kid with a ripped tendon has grounds for a lawsuit on the grounds of on pis poor advice.

The other side of the coin is that if the same bloke felt using gloves on a drill press was unsafe why on earth, did he go ahead with what he should have a perceived as a unsafe act. I also shudder to think about the same blanket rule on the use of gloves while running a bench grinder on that same site. As part of the same module it was always taught if you were not happy with a situation do not not proceed, take it up higher.Better to lose a job than a finger anyway.

I can't believe a trained safety officer would institute such an insane policy- they would leave themselves wide open for some major grief.
Such a directive could only come from an untrained uncertified numby. Some sites would not tolerate nonsense like that and justifiably call a union meeting. What happened to the safety theory where we taught -assess the hazard? For sure,this donkey was not a safety officer.

Its the same thinking as some of the you tube- how to do it experts - where they wear gloves while using an angle grinder without a guard or a handle.

As I keep saying you can't teach common sense.

Originally Posted by Grahame Collins

I taught the basic OH&S module enough times to tell you its almost engrained into students .If a machine tool is rotating,you keep any clothing including gloves and unbuttoned shirt sleeves away.The kid with a ripped tendon has grounds for a lawsuit on the grounds of on pis poor advice.

The other side of the coin is that if the same bloke felt using gloves on a drill press was unsafe why on earth, did he go ahead with what he should have a perceived as a unsafe act. I also shudder to think about the same blanket rule on the use of gloves while running a bench grinder on that same site. As part of the same module it was always taught if you were not happy with a situation do not not proceed, take it up higher.Better to lose a job than a finger anyway.

I can't believe a trained safety officer would institute such an insane policy- they would leave themselves wide open for some major grief.
Such a directive could only come from an untrained uncertified numby. Some sites would not tolerate nonsense like that and justifiably call a union meeting. What happened to the safety theory where we taught -assess the hazard? For sure,this donkey was not a safety officer.

Its the same thinking as some of the you tube- how to do it experts - where they wear gloves while using an angle grinder without a guard or a handle.

As I keep saying you can't teach common sense.

Hi Grahame,
I have been trying real hard to stay out of this discussion as where I work is going through an industrial enema at the moment.
I dared to say out loud that a particular situation was unsafe and managed to get charged with three breaches and received a first written warning for my efforts.
Should I have another breach, dismissal is on the table and seeing as how I am being watched, this comment could be it.
Sadly, my opinion now is to not speak up.
Thankfully, it is not like this at every workplace.

Phil