I pity the employees at MDL marinas. It seems they now have to don life jackets rigged with crotch straps before venturing onto the pontoons.
Is this common practice at other marinas?
Is this common practice at other marinas?
MDL pity
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Tisme
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Post Deleted: to let SimonCR get in first!
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It's only a common sense precaution. After all, if they fall into the drink with the weight of all that cash that they've collected off their victims, sorry berth holders, they're going to need every bit of flotation that they can get.
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[--word removed--], tisme got there first
Tisme
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There you are, I've edited it so you can have all the glory. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
BlueSkyNick
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again at Hythe, one of the lock keepers did actually fall into the lock trying to be helpful to a boat. Forturnately he did have his LJ on, because nobody would want to swallow any of that water.
not sure about walking the pontoons though, the security guards certainly don't bother.
not sure about walking the pontoons though, the security guards certainly don't bother.
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Now there goes a REAL gentleman! Trouble is I ain't no lady. So pray reinstate your version, it was nice and pithy...
halcyon
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Pure and logical health and safety, all people on the pontoon should also waer auto inflating jackets. After all you only have to trip, hit head on bolard and into the drink you go.
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I wonder how many MDL employees died on active service prior to the introduction of this company regulation?
sailorman
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get a life
wot the hell is this country comming to.
its H & S gone mad, some Pratt of a manager decided this due to possible insurance claims
wot the hell is this country comming to.
its H & S gone mad, some Pratt of a manager decided this due to possible insurance claims
Tisme
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Too late. Also deleted from my memory.
...and I'll thank you not to call me "pithy" though I didn't know you had a lisp. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
...and I'll thank you not to call me "pithy" though I didn't know you had a lisp. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
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Actually I did help fish a lady (aged 65ish) out of the drink a few days ago. Was woken in the morning by a loud splash, thought our neighbour was brave going for an early morning swim. Leapt out of my bunk smartish a few seconds later when she surfaced with a gurgly panicky scream. Her husband was there but couldn't get her out on his own. She'd missed the pontoon when trying to get off. Two of us barely managed to haul her out with the greatest of difficulty (these were very high Baltic pontoons).
Could have been very nasty if no one else had been around.
Could have been very nasty if no one else had been around.
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I didn't know you had a lisp. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
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So did Lenin, by the way!
I didn't know you had a lisp. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
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So did Lenin, by the way!
Tisme
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That must be the daftest bit of thread drift I've seen for a long time. From lifejackets to Lenin in three moves. Brilliant. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
...getting back to Halcyons comment though......
Whilst I never wear an LJ on a pontoon, if I were running a Marina I would feel I had no choice but to require staff to wear the things. The H&S need is obvious. A good example to set for youngsters too.
...getting back to Halcyons comment though......
Whilst I never wear an LJ on a pontoon, if I were running a Marina I would feel I had no choice but to require staff to wear the things. The H&S need is obvious. A good example to set for youngsters too.
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I'm sure Lenin must have said something famous about lifejackets, he did about everything else, but Google came up with so many entries for Lenin + life jacket that I gave up.
I reckon a more useful thing than a lifejacket would be to instal a basic form of ladder - perhaps just a rung around water level to get a leg up to give a chance of climbing back on the pontoon if no one else is around.
I reckon a more useful thing than a lifejacket would be to instal a basic form of ladder - perhaps just a rung around water level to get a leg up to give a chance of climbing back on the pontoon if no one else is around.
My nephew fell in this week while we were approaching the pontoon. At 22 years of age he grabbed the pontoon, gave it a few swimming kicks and hauled himself out. Best thing was he still had the mooring rope in hand and so continued to tie up. Wotta crew!
Phoenix of Hamble
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A good example to set for youngsters too.
[/ QUOTE ]While, I take your point, I've got a slightly different attitude....
Mine definitely wear lifejackets at sea in anything above about 5kts, but in the marina they don't....
I've taught them both to swim like fish, and i'd prefer they learn that the water is still bloody cold in August, and that being careful is the best protection you can have.....
A good example to set for youngsters too.
[/ QUOTE ]While, I take your point, I've got a slightly different attitude....
Mine definitely wear lifejackets at sea in anything above about 5kts, but in the marina they don't....
I've taught them both to swim like fish, and i'd prefer they learn that the water is still bloody cold in August, and that being careful is the best protection you can have.....
Koeketiene
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H&S is castrating this country.
No-one is responsable for their own actions & everyone can be sued.
No-one is responsable for their own actions & everyone can be sued.
arthur1808
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he still had the mooring rope in hand and so continued to tie up. Wotta crew!
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Quite right!! This is the sort of dedication to duty that we should see more of in the sailing world. If he was really good he wouldn't have spilled his drink either! [oops, sorry wrong thread!]
he still had the mooring rope in hand and so continued to tie up. Wotta crew!
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Quite right!! This is the sort of dedication to duty that we should see more of in the sailing world. If he was really good he wouldn't have spilled his drink either! [oops, sorry wrong thread!]
Sans Bateau
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H&S is castrating this country.
No-one is responsible for their own actions & everyone can be sued
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But what came first the litigious culture or the H&S? Isn't the H&S bloke just doing his best to save us from spending fortunes on solicitors fees? After all, most of the time he is only making us aware of the dangers and pitfalls that have always existed.
Unfortunately in the blame culture we have developed, if an MDL employee fell in without a LJ, hitting his head and drowned, there would be hell to pay!
On a lighter note though, the other day one of the chaps in our MDL marina had to come down the pontoon with me, he got his LJ on before joining me, never once though did he suggest I should have mine on, is this one way of cutting down the waiting list!? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
H&S is castrating this country.
No-one is responsible for their own actions & everyone can be sued
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But what came first the litigious culture or the H&S? Isn't the H&S bloke just doing his best to save us from spending fortunes on solicitors fees? After all, most of the time he is only making us aware of the dangers and pitfalls that have always existed.
Unfortunately in the blame culture we have developed, if an MDL employee fell in without a LJ, hitting his head and drowned, there would be hell to pay!
On a lighter note though, the other day one of the chaps in our MDL marina had to come down the pontoon with me, he got his LJ on before joining me, never once though did he suggest I should have mine on, is this one way of cutting down the waiting list!? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
