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Post: # 83891Post dig dug dan

i did a pa1 and pa6 course the other week (knapsack) and was advised to do a two day course on using a stepladder, as i inadvertantly carried it without supervision!



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Post: # 83898Post London Stone Paving

lutonlagerlout wrote:I know we all moan about the HSE ,but does anyone remember tales of building sites in the old days?
All the improvements in H&S are a good thing for the men on site, it would be foolish to say otherwise.

It just gets taken to far. the example Sean gave about a course on how to install ear plugs is a perfect example.

When it gets taken too far as it so often is these days there is a danger that it will become counter productive because people will not take it seriously

Carberry
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Post: # 83903Post Carberry

dig dug dan wrote:i did a pa1 and pa6 course the other week (knapsack) and was advised to do a two day course on using a stepladder, as i inadvertantly carried it without supervision!
Just watch this video and you're good to go. Covers all the basics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EiWYjiCm8A

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Post: # 83905Post seanandruby

tool box talk this morning, 2000 men have to attend in meeting room at various times for each contractor. The following tbt, must be respactful on shuttle bus in and out, no swearing, pushing, shoving, watching porno on phones, or.....farting. Next one.....when leaving home remember to have water in rad, wash etc, clean ice off screen, have heater on etc: ??? Tbt takes about 1/2 hour. How many man hours every week?
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Post: # 83908Post London Stone Paving

seanandruby wrote:tool box talk this morning, 2000 men have to attend in meeting The following tbt, must be respactful on shuttle bus in and out, no swearing, pushing, shoving, watching porno on phones, or.....farting.
Surely grown men can decide when its appropriate to fart and watch porn on their phones :p

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Post: # 83912Post lutonlagerlout

Carberry wrote:
dig dug dan wrote:i did a pa1 and pa6 course the other week (knapsack) and was advised to do a two day course on using a stepladder, as i inadvertantly carried it without supervision!

Just watch this video and you're good to go. Covers all the basics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EiWYjiCm8A
oh dear
why would he do that?
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Post: # 83913Post lutonlagerlout

regarding farting etc its a difficult one,on a big job we had a canteen and the same irish fella used to come in every day and let rip,he was the groundwork subbys son and he obviously had digestive issues
after a week of this words were spoken and he ate in his van after that
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Post: # 83914Post Carberry

lutonlagerlout wrote:regarding farting etc its a difficult one,on a big job we had a canteen and the same irish fella used to come in every day and let rip,he was the groundwork subbys son and he obviously had digestive issues
after a week of this words were spoken and he ate in his van after that
LLL
It's just basic manners. When I went vegan I was farting constantly, very loud, very smelly for about 6 months. I used to wander off downwind fart, and come back.
Even I thought my farts were stinking which means they were bad :laugh:

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Post: # 83916Post seanandruby

god i remember the days when we'd be at the mermaid pub in the mornings waiting to be picked by the subbies. 20 dossers, winos, all sorts in the van stinking of booze, piss, sick, and the scrumpy heads ( use your imagination ) a guy farted and followed through, my brother had him on the deck, hanging out the back doors going down the m6 throttling him, ha ha ha ha, happy days.
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Post: # 83917Post lutonlagerlout

i used to get picked up at the wheelrights at 5.45, same craic got in the van and it stank like a brewery,open sewer, and ashtray every day,i was the last pick up so i had hobsons choice where to sit or lie
blokes sparko everywhere
gordon the driver was ill one day and I was the only one that knew the way to enfield after 18 months, as the others were asleep both ways or passing half bottles round.
maybe it was youth but it was a good laugh in those days
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Post: # 83918Post London Stone Paving

Just watched Carberries video with sound. Last comment was a stunner :laugh: :laugh:

Must have been a right craic on site back in those days Sean, bet its not so much fun these day, though its probarbly safer :)

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Post: # 83922Post seanandruby

was tough but good craic. Lads would be eating the fish/pie and chip leftovers from night before. Some great storytellers, singers etc : could be 2 1/2 hour drive. We'd get £10 a shift, the winos would get a breakfast and at drop off get the bottles filled half and half straight from the wood, a new start actually wore 'the wellie out of the back of the van, (yes that wellie ) stank like a piss house all day :;): :laugh:
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seanandruby wrote:very good giles. Did you think of that word all on your own, or did you plagerise it like you did your photos? O, you forgot your ocd trademark 'he he.'
no i learnt that at university sean

what photos have i plagiarised?
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Post: # 83975Post ilovesettsonmondays

the good old days in the back of the van . we were working in blackpool right by the tower about twenty two years ago . two in the front of the van and about 6 in the back . journey took about an hour and half ,as you old school boys know a longtime sat in the back . this only lasted a couple of days .the mickey mousers pinched two benches off the pavement .luxury back of the van travel .worst day friday going home .van pissed up except driver all dying for a pee .

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Post: # 83976Post lutonlagerlout

we used to have a scaff board cut in half,2 breeze blocks 1 end and on the wheel arch of the tranny the other end
not even sure if thats legal now
christ me and my brother used to sit on the back of the datsun pick up,if the old man had to give his mate a lift home
you never see that now
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