NVQ Level 2 in 1 hour....

[tonybax]

got all mine for floorlaying health and safety etc what a load of bull, been asked to produce them twice. durham nick and gleesons job at discovery museum in the toon.

[sless]

corus
redcar

cant even start a job without them

hartlepool power station
nightmare
armed guards on now
lush fish and chips on a friday though
mind you the mushy peas
arent arf green

[alan]

We\'re going through a program of NVQ\'s at our place as well ,level 2 and 3 ,on instruction from the examiners the students are told to read through the workbooks and all of the answers are there !
The company I work for gets a grant from the government of around £200 per person completing the course ( which is insulting to anyone with intelligence ) and as there are around 4 to 5000 employees I reckon it\'s a canny little earner eh .

thought that for a while Steve about the grant,a mates wife got £150 cheque from work for doing hers,it was optional but with the back hander they had 100% taking part,we had 70% at our firm

[Oblickta]

safety awareness training or testing.

We had roofers working directly above us today and ineviably one of us got a tile of the heed (not hurt). This was brought to the attention of the site manger and we thought he would organize something...........wrong! His exact words were

\"The brickies and the roofers should have a big fight and the hardest gets to work in this area. I wont mind, in fact, I\'ll quite enjoy it\".

I questioned his attitude and he said

\"Netto\'s are selling 8 cans for a fiver, get urself away and chill out

Then he went up on the roof and told the roofers that the brickies were gonna fill them in at bait time and on his way back down he told us that the roofers were gonna have us at bait time.

We seen the roofers in the shop and they agreed to move around the corner \'til Monday so we can finish our side safely. Who needs managers lol?

BTW the site manager is a great guy and i\'m not putting him down here. This is just an example of what happens in the real world

Ha coz just 2day my mate got a concrete tile off the heed again syopo

[Oblickta]

and some mixture of extreme sticks and one man killed his brother in macdonalds

[mickthefish]

haha lmfol

[sless]

health and safety at work memo

everyone must take at least a half hour lunch
between 12.00-2.00
due to tiredness at work
but it doesnt come into force until 1st january 2006
if that was the case wouldnt you think it would come in to force tomorrow

they make the rules up as they go along

[Clare]

And to add to the CSCS debate...

If you do not have this card....

A) Most of the big building firms will not take you on with out it..

B) If you do work on a major site without the card and have a accident might not be able to claim for it as it invalidates the public liabilities insurance.

C) And if you cause injury you could be prosecuted as a criminal if you do not have a current and valid card.

How do I know....you see me for your test.

[sless]

got mine
ive also got my health and safety passport supervisors ticket
and a wallet of others we need for heavy industry
mobile platform ticket
harness trained
scaffold trained
welding trained
electronics trained
the list goes on
ive not got any room in my wallet for money
hahaha

[Edited on 2/12/2005 by sless]

[Oblickta]

And to add to the CSCS debate...

If you do not have this card....

A) Most of the big building firms will not take you on with out it..

B) If you do work on a major site without the card and have a accident might not be able to claim for it as it invalidates the public liabilities insurance.

C) And if you cause injury you could be prosecuted as a criminal if you do not have a current and valid card.

How do I know....you see me for your test.

The role of the contempoary saftey officer is to reduce claims against the company and our safety is not their priority. if it is allowed i will post pics (everday) of danger in the workplace that you wont believe.

[marksworld]

\"danger in the workplace pics\". when i did my city and guilds and served my time (5 years) many years ago as a joiner we saw many many pics and films on that subject
as a youngun it was all food for thought and still have all me fingers plenty scars but all me fingers to this day. do ya remember the old joiners saying that you are not a proper joiner till you have lost a finger..... b****cks . graham i dont know if this post applies to whats been talked aboutbut i\'m drinking and it brought back memmories lol


cheers
mark

[Oblickta]

Aye Mark I remember when tools were made of wood and men were made of steel. . How things have changed

[sless]

i would say 90% of safety officers have had a bad accident in the workplace
working in a lot of heavy industrial sites and being inducted it always seems to be men with limps,fingers off
and one bloke at corus has even lost an arm

[Oblickta]

Good point Sless. When an industrial machine mangles soneonee they can be the safety man and tell us how much it hurts instead of being in the sick but if you lose a arm I would join the army and if you lose a leg get leggless