Thread: The way it was.

I was filling in an application to update a language qualification last week and it asked what PPE I needed for my work.
I had a laugh about about the idea of wearing high vis, goggles and steel-capped boots to stand in front of a class of language students. Must be a dangerous job.

BTW which high vis is better - yellow or orange?

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

I was filling in an application to update a language qualification last week and it asked what PPE I needed for my work.
I had a laugh about about the idea of wearing high vis, goggles and steel-capped boots to stand in front of a class of language students.

BTW which high vis is better - yellow or orange?

You forgot pink.

Ha! No way I'm wearing pink.

Originally Posted by bsperka

Still there. "Modernising" it with lift refurb, foyer update. Installed floodgates due to 2011 floods damaging services.

Not surprised it flooded. The work I was involved with was removing the old wharf timbers and the particularly malodorous mud before the footings could go in. Water was a constant issue.

One thing of interest; the 'foreman' of that part of the job was involved in disposing of the timbers removed. He was making a nice little bit on the side selling them for landscaping. These timbers were probably 100+ years old, and they were heavily treated with some poison like arsenic, and were supposed to be disposed of in a particular way. When the EPA or whoever it was back then came to check there was a very embarrassed foreman, who had to organise the return of every piece of timber, at his own expense, and of course he had to reimburse all of his "customers". He wasn't a popular man on the site, and the jokes at his expense were many. Especially as he had bragged about the money he had made, and had also spent most of it...

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

I was filling in an application to update a language qualification last week and it asked what PPE I needed for my work.
I had a laugh about about the idea of wearing high vis, goggles and steel-capped boots to stand in front of a class of language students. Must be a dangerous job.

BTW which high vis is better - yellow or orange?

ppe.jpg and a swear filter.