Risk assess this – Haragans Mobile Power Saw

“Invaluable for scrub clearing and timber getting. Can be used as a docking saw, cutting mine props, caps and sleepers, and is indispensable to timber cutters. A feature is patented Gimbal Ring and Saddle which makes possible vertical, horizontal, or diagonal cuts, irrespective of ground conditions. The saw is powered by British BSA 4-cycle, side-valve engine, developing 10 HP at 2,600 RPM. A special type of carburettor is fitted and lubrication is of the dry sump type, 36in. to 42 in. circular saws can be fitted.

A simple device permits the chassis to be raised or lowered so that a clearance of 12 to 24 in. can be obtained under the main axle. A power drive is fitted so that manoeuvring the saw is simplified.”

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Early workstation assessment
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Myth: Even Mr Punch needs a written risk assessment

The reality

A Punch and Judy man received a standard letter from an event organiser asking him to submit a health and safety risk assessment. However when he questioned the need for it, they ‘backed-off’ and no paperwork was required. It sounds like wires got crossed somewhere and perhaps the standard letter was sent in error.

HSEs guidance is clear: if there is genuinely no significant risk, nothing needs to be written down.

If a written assessment is needed – keep it fit for purpose, and crucially: act on it. Paperwork without action does no one any good.
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Myth: Health and safety laws banned poles in fire stations

“The reality

It was widely reported that a fire station was built without the traditional pole for ‘health and safety’ reasons.

As the county’s Chief Fire Officer said: ‘Whilst every consideration regarding health and safety was taken into account, the reason a pole was not included was purely due to space restrictions.’

Poles are not banned and firefighters around the country continue to use them.”

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Fire Certificate
Landladies with lodgers will have to have a fire certificate. Works for this will cost on average UKP900. Similarly, anyone working from home who may have a visitor will have to have the same fire certificate. The CEC deny that home workers have to have fire doors. The extension of the rules to all premises however small where the public could have access is a Home Office interpretation. (Indy 29/7/92). The Place of Work Act was due for implementation in 1993 but was deferred owing to the cost estimated to be GBP1.7bn. Revised regulations have been produced which the British Retail Consortium alone reckons will cost retailers GBP230m. Mike Fisher has threatened to resign from the government’s deregulation task force because he believes the new regulations will cost business hundreds of millions of pounds. He says ministers are too willing to accept new regulations from Brussels (FT 6/12/96).
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Health and Safety, You See

Iain Dale’s Diary: Health and Safety, You See: “Yesterday I visited ITN in Grays Inn Road. When I entered the building I was asked if I minded having my bag searched. No problem, I said. It’s a large briefcase type bag, which has a lot of pockets and carries my laptop. I undid the two clasps and expected the man to have a good ‘rootle’ (as we say in Essex) but he just stood there and looked inside – not that he could see much as it was crammed full. I asked him if he wasn’t going to search the bag. Oh no, he said. He couldn’t put his hands inside – health and safety, you see. And then came the clincher. ‘You never know what might be in there!’ There’s not a lot you can say to that, is there?”

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bad safety joke

There was a young safety manager from Kent
Whose nose was all battered and bent.
One day he arose and followed his nose
And no one knew which way he went.
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Hospital

In a hospital’s Intensive Care Unit, patients always died in the same bed, on Sunday morning, at about 11:00 a.m., regardless of their medical condition.
This puzzled the doctors and some even thought it had something to do with the supernatural. No one could solve the mystery as to why the deaths occurred around 11:00 a.m. on Sunday.

So a worldwide team of experts was assembled to investigate the cause of the incidents.
The next Sunday morning, a few minutes before 11:00 a.m., all of the doctors and nurses nervously waited outside the ward to see for themselves what the terrible phenomenon was all about. Some were holding wooden crosses, prayer books, and other holy objects to ward off the evil spirits.
Just when the clock struck 11:00, the part-time Sunday sweeper, entered the ward and unplugged the life support system so he could use the vacuum cleaner.
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Fire Drill
A voice on the office loudspeaker announced:

“We will be testing the speaker system to make sure it will work properly in case of emergency.”

My confidence in this safety precaution faded when the voice added:

“If you are unable to hear this announcement, please contact us.”
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The smoke theory

A theory has recently been postulated asserting the great importance of smoke to the functioning of electrical components. According to this theory, it is smoke which makes components work because every time you let smoke out of a component, it stops working!! It seems this claim has been verified through extensive field testing.

As with many great discoveries, this has eluded the great minds of our time by its very simplicity. Of course, smoke makes all things electrical work! Remember the last time smoke escaped from your power supply? Didn’t it stop working? On a system level, a wiring harness carries smoke from one device to another, and when the harness springs a leak, it lets the smoke out of everything at once, and then nothing works. Some systems require larger quantities of smoke to operate properly. That’s why the wires going to them are bigger.

Of course, there are some aspects of the theory which require further investigation. For example, one would think that persons who smoke cigarettes would be much more healthy from ingesting all that smoke. Experimental data seems to contradict that hypothesis. Perhaps smokers are actually exhaling more smoke than they inhale…

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Fireman’s pole banned for being a "health and safety hazard"!

Fireman’s pole banned for being a “health and safety hazard”!: “London, August 5: Firefighters in the UK are scorching mad after the traditional fireman’s pole was banned from a new 2.4 million pound station because it posed a ‘health and safety hazard’.

The firefighters will now be forced to run down the stairs of the newly built three-storey Greenbank Fire Station in Plymouth, Devon, raising concerns that vital seconds will be lost on their way to an emergency call.”

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Light Bulb

How many nebosh tutors does it take to change a light bulb?
None. Anything not completed during the lesson is added to the homework.

How many architects does it take to change a light bulb?
Just one, but he has to coordinate ten other professionals who are doing this very complicated task.

How many safety engineers does it take to change a light bulb?
None. safety engineers do not change light bulbs; they search for the root cause as to why the last one went out.

How many nebosh students does it take to change a light bulb?
None. That’s a diploma subject.

How many diploma 1 students does it take to change a light bulb?
One, but the rest of the class copies the report.

How many diploma 2 students does it take to change a light bulb?
“Will this question be in the final examination?”

How many Msc students does it take to change a light bulb?
“10,000 words latter I’ll have to do more research and resubmit?”

How many environment students does it take to change a light bulb?
Seven. One to install the new bulb and six to figure out what to do with the old one for the next 10,000 years.

Under normal public purchasing conditions, how many civil servants does it take to change a light bulb?

Two. One to change the light bulb. One to hold the ladder (for health and safety!)

Under PFI:

One Privatised off shoot employee to change the bulb. Another to hold the ladder and a third to replace the temp who was holding the ladder but who has now got a permanent job elsewhere. Five light bulb changing consultants to develop a business case for changing said bulb and four more (from a different consultancy) to independently evaluate the first lots bid. Plus two separate teams of lawyers to make sure everything’s OK for both public and private perspectives.

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How many Safety Managers does it take to change a light bulb?
Fifty-Four.
8 to argue
1 to get a continuance
1 to object
1 to demur
2 to research precedents,
1 to dictate a letter
1 to stipulate
5 to turn in their time cards
1 to depose
1 to write interrogatories
2 to settle
1 to order a secretary to change the bulb, and
28 to bill for professional services

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