Thread: OH&S gone stupid

I had to have witches hats around me while working on a refrigeration unit in a cabinet,at a commercial kitchen the other week.
Luckily the site had the witches hats or the cabinet would have stayed broken.

Oh,there were 4 forms of crap to fill out before i started....
And have to have long pants and long sleeved shirts as well.

Welcome to all the WH&S nonsense we have been putting up with for decades.

Originally Posted by d2dave

Rant finished. I now feel better and will go and get another beer.

The main thing is he got the job done safely. Enjoy the beer!

(And you have clearly not broken enough toes yet to appreciate shoes).

Edit: ok - so he didn’t even get the job done. D’oh!

Years ago I was involved with the redevelopment of the Carindale shopping centre, in Brissie. I was working in a section of the main, internal thoroughfare and I had a ring of witches hats surrounding my equipment. The barrier was to keep all the shoppers away from my area.

Even though I was surrounded by mums with little tackers in tow, old farts on mobility scooters, young trendies and numerous other genres of the community, my chainy and I were required to wear our 'Hard Hats', as we were on a constuction site.

Originally Posted by Saitch

my chainy and I were required to wear our 'Hard Hats', as we were on a constuction site.

And i bet you had to have a building and construction "white card".
Everyone else in the center,staff,workers, customers, won't have to have one.

We have to have the card to get on any Qld Health site,and do repairs and maintenance,work that out.

In the early 1970s I spent a day working with a team removing a disused railway line leading to a silo.

As we were working near the main railway line, the boss had to employ a railway worker to place detonators on the line to warn approaching train drivers that there people working about 20 metres away.

At the time we thought that was quite unnecessary.

Originally Posted by vnx205

In the early 1970s I spent a day working with a team removing a disused railway line leading to a silo.

As we were working near the main railway line, the boss had to employ a railway worker to place detonators on the line to warn approaching train drivers that there people working about 20 metres away.

At the time we thought that was quite unnecessary.

Don't have a problem with that. That is common sense, something not very common these days.

These days a person sits in a chair beside the railway line with a red flag. Trains can't pass until the flagman says so.

ATM there is track work at Tocumwal NSW. There is one train a day, but someone still sits there all day with the flag.

And as a side note. There is a bridge that someone has wiped out the side barrier a few kays south of Tocumwal.

This happened sometime late last year. They have closed the lane and put up temporary traffic lights.

They have a person in a vehicle with flashing orange lights sit there 24/7 in case of a traffic light malfunction.

What a waste of tax payer money. JUST FIX THE ****ING BRIDGE for christ sake. As I said earlier, I am grumpy as poo. Sick of government incompetence and waste!!

Whilst I enjoyed the majority of my 24 years driving for (the old) Finemores then Toll working out of Franklins then WOW.
The amount of OH&S became more and more as each year past, At first it was just the basics, but as the years progressed and the "woke" brigade became more and more entitled with there demands re "health and safety", it became more and more suffocating.
When we had our monthly meetings, the majority of it was telling us of the new "rules " that we had to obey re OH&S otherwise we would be written up as not complying with company policy.
The last few years I was there was getting particularly suffocating with the "rules and regulations",especially with WOW and there rules in the depot and some of there shops.
Thankfully I retired before the lunacy of "covid " came along and strangled it more.

Just remembered that we never had in cabin camera's spying on us,but it came in the year after I left so I missed that as well.

cheers
DG

Originally Posted by Saitch

Years ago I was involved with the redevelopment of the Carindale shopping centre, in Brissie. I was working in a section of the main, internal thoroughfare and I had a ring of witches hats surrounding my equipment. The barrier was to keep all the shoppers away from my area.

Even though I was surrounded by mums with little tackers in tow, old farts on mobility scooters, young trendies and numerous other genres of the community, my chainy and I were required to wear our 'Hard Hats', as we were on a constuction site.

Wow the Carindale shopping center. When I was a kid that whole area was our playground, we used to fish and swim in Bulimba Creek, shoot hares and just about anything else that moved and camped near the creek most weekends. We never imagined that it would end up like it is today. My mate and I had some great times in the area only hampered by having to drag my little sister along with us.