Thread: One for the fridgies

Originally Posted by RANDLOVER

Extra points if he was using a chair that can swivel, bonus points if it had wheels on as well.

But but but, wouldn't a wheeled chair to rest a ladder on subtract points? Maybe a chair with 4 wheel disc brakes might be ok?


Re. WHS/OHS You're right Mick, it just indicates how long I have been away from all that bull****.


Probably saved countless lives though, bull**** or no bull****.

[QUOTE=rick130;2939237]Bloody hell, who's using my name in vain!!

Says he working on two WW systems concurrently when he should be at home or out on the town...[/QUOTE

Have you got 60' arms & 10 toolboxes, Rick?

Originally Posted by Homestar

What about the Safe-t-steps? No 3 points of contact there but universally accepted in workplaces?

They do appear to have a spacer in each corner of the box so really it becomes a 4 point of contact.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Doesn't matter if the milk crate complies or not. WHS (not OHS - catch up to the jargon) says you must have three points of contact, plus an offsider to hold it steady. How do you get three points of contact on a milk crate?
In the work I retired from yesterday I was told I could be fired if I stood on a chair or allowed any student to stand on a chair.

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Some fool made up the three points of contact,and has never worked off a step ladder.

We often work off ladders all day,generally 2M and less in height.

Using three points of contact we wouldn’t get anything done.

Also Paul, how do you charge out a " Daily Ladder Holder" @ $130 per hour & be able to justify it to the Client?

Three points of contact is interesting. What you gonna do to comply, cut one leg off a Stepladder?


And right on coincidental cue, Blackwoods just this minute dropped this into my inbox.

Working with Ladders | Blackwoods

I know a bloke who fell off a step ladder and broke his neck. Never fully recovered. Now works as a safety officer. He's a bit picky about ladder safety. His employer went down for a large number because the staff had never been trained in ladder safety. Now it's an annual course.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

I know a bloke who fell off a step ladder and broke his neck. Never fully recovered. Now works as a safety officer. He's a bit picky about ladder safety. His employer went down for a large number because the staff had never been trained in ladder safety. Now it's an annual course.

I rest my case.

I fell off a 6' ladder once, working on an A/c above a Comms Rm, actually it collapsed under me, to much sideway pressure on an aluminium one, and it's leg just folded. I hit the floor sideways, luckily it was carpeted, and I was a lot younger and more resilient then.