Tell me about it, the idiots that instigate all this tosh don’t get a move on to fill out work permits, sign you in, make you sit and watch an induction video, all the while the bill is going up by the minute, as for work permits 99.9% of people who fill them in have absolutely no idea what you’re doing and how you’re going to do it, and we wonder why nothing gets done and everything goes over budget
Was at one site where the induction video wouldn’t play, the security guard had given me the multiple guess sheet which was to accompany the video, I asked him where is the fire muster point, in the car park by the gate, says he, I gave him the sheet of questions filled in and answered correctly, the fire point being the one I couldn’t have known, he was astounded having not seen the company’s award winning video, this was a Wednesday and would have been the 9th one I’d have had to endure that week up to that point!
I know it sounds obvious but some people do need to be told. A local pet shop chain MD was convicted after dropping a pallet on a worker. Turned out his forklift licence had expired years ago, which he then lied about at first. I guess no-one made him sit through the site safety video.
One of the blokes I work with expressed amazement that I was changing my chain and freewheel after less than a year when he'd never once had a problem with his chain in over seven years. I asked him how often he rode his bike and he said a couple of times a year on the local cycle trail with the kids. That's about twenty miles per year over seven years on a flat cycle path as opposed to five thousand miles of commuting over hills in all weathers.
This is a bit like the folk at work are amazed that I habitually commmute the 12 miles each way; 'Oh you're so brave.' 'I couldn't / wouldn't do it' etc., etc.. I average around 4500 miles a year simply commuting and shopping etc., almost as far as our car does in the same time.
I've done sixty more miles on my bike this year than I have in the car. It was 560 more miles but a car trip to North Wales two weeks ago narrowed the gap.This is a bit like the folk at work are amazed that I habitually commmute the 12 miles each way; 'Oh you're so brave.' 'I couldn't / wouldn't do it' etc., etc.. I average around 4500 miles a year simply commuting and shopping etc., almost as far as our car does in the same time.
Some odd, hypocritial folk out there - !
Not being nit picky, but in the UK, there is no such thing as a fork lift licence. It's simply a requirement that staff are trained and a record of training is kept. Commonly referred to as a "forklift ticket". It's a record of formal training but it isn't a legal requirement to have one.
You knew what I meant. He still should have had some sort of refresher and competency check in the last decade!
I get exactly what you are saying but that is the problem with the current system. It's currently acceptable to take on an 18 year old kid and give him a bit of paper saying he's had some "in house training".
Richer Sounds in Exeter is a must visit every time I go into the city.
