Grinding sparks ...... fires?

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fair comment

but have you read them, they are a very good guidline as to how one can do most jobs safely and survive. they also indicate what tools ones needs and how for one should go about checking for known hazards before exposing oneself to unwarranted risk.

I refer to them to protect my crew all the time

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oh - I fogot to say that in the last 23 yrs I have not had a lti on the ships I have commanded ......... not one.

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Well I'm never too proud to learn so I might get a set.

My main gripe with them was when my client was fined £1000 after they spotted me using a rough terrain forklift as a man-platform for photography. Not as bad as it sounds. We had a platform on the forks and I was wearing a safety harness.
But for some reason they decided there were lots of issues that we hadn't addressed. (12 years ago)
No accident occured, no-one was endangered, we just hadn't followed the letter of their rules.
 
A wick soaked in petrol, a spark from a flint off of a wheel? I don't think Mr Ronson had any trouble getting a flame.
 
Thanks for the comments. Good debate and opinion, no backstabbing.

Just what forums are supposed to be.....surely just as the tv mandate......to inform, educate and entertain.
 
...know how you feel!

I used to work at a big university where some of the lab technicians would be only too happy to use any of the dozens of ready-made exuses in the name of H&S not to do some work! It always amused me how they'd quickly "forget" to carry out the risk assessment when they were doing a "non-work" job! -On those occasions, they used to revert to common sense and their (considerable) experience of using machine tools / power tools / chemicals etc! I'm not sure a lot of the HSE advice followed to the letter actually makes things any safer - it just gives you someone to sue and prevents the insurance company from wriggling out of a payout!
 
HSE advice, or rather our compensation culture it the very reason I am giving up boating.

EA have put a locked gate across the slipway I rely on to use, where a a friend has a tractor and trailer locally for our liftouts. 3 miles or so from my mooring, it was because of this I bought my boat in the first place, knowing I could not manage without this facility.

Their reason........ Just in case someone 'slips on the swan sh*t' the very words of the workers who put it up I've been told.
 
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