Health & Safety Jobsworth

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Johnnytheboy said:

Few of those needed, best put the eye protection on incase of whoosh poo

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johnwilliams77 said:

GT03ROB said:

You speak for the company you work for.

As I said one companies data across their sites globally.

Nope - I speak for multiple companies I have experience of or people I know within them.

All companies have different HSE cultures, so I can't comment on those other companies & their approaches. I can only comment of where I have personal experience. And in my personal experience of that environment I stand by what I say. And I fully respect that other companies data maybe different as is their safety performance.

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GT03ROB said:

All companies have different HSE cultures, so I can't comment on those other companies & their approaches. I can only comment of where I have personal experience. And in my personal experience of that environment I stand by what I say. And I fully respect that other companies data maybe different as is their safety performance.

That's not what I am trying to say - I am not making myself clear. The companies I am referring to in the 'energy' sector have the same trends as you mention (better safety performance) but I know that this 'great' performance is simply due to under reporting in many cases. The number of cases is something I cannot determine.

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Shuvi McTupya said:

Ah, handrails. I am reminded of a story.

Scaffolders arrive to remove scaffolding at the end of the job. as is their way, they start at the top and work their down..

Unfortunately the upper most bit of scaffolding is the handrail on the top deck and the H+S guy arrived just as that was being removed.

Well, you cant work up there without a handrail can you? The whole job was shut down until a solution could be found.

The solution was found as soon as the H+S guy drove away and the scaffolding was gone by the next morning when he came back to see how they were going to handle it.

Great story, but they really shouldn't work without a handrail unless they are clipped on via a fall arrest harness. Even use of harness as safety measure is minimised.

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johnwilliams77 said:

That's not what I am trying to say - I am not making myself clear. The companies I am referring to in the 'energy' sector have the same trends as you mention (better safety performance) but I know that this 'great' performance is simply due to under reporting in many cases. The number of cases is something I cannot determine.

How do you know they’re “under-reporting”?

Assuming it’s the same organisationworking globally, wouldn’t the H&S guys in those regions which are reporting “correctly” point out to the bosses that the other regions are cheating?