Norman Potting
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Get maimed, injured or worse because your employer didn't provide the most basic of safety equipment or training perhaps? Speaking as one who lost a cousin and his wife due to the affects of asbestos.
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[Misc] Things you used to be able to do before "Health & Safety" took over
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Bob'n'weave
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Send TV presenters up Nelsons Column, freestyle!
Still can't believe he did this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW3daihiY30
Still can't believe he did this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW3daihiY30
Not read the whole thread and sorry to be boring but H&S didn't take over. Instead litigation took over! As companies/organisations/councils are liable to be sued they need to show they took reasonable steps to prevent whatever accident may have happened. If such litigation wasn't possible we wouldn't have so much Elven Safe Tea.
herecomesaregular
We're in the pipe, 5 by 5
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Sorry, I didn't start this thread to cause upset or seriously complain about modern H&S laws, more a look back at the past in amazement at how things in our youth were. Such as my example as how-the-feck-were-you-allowed-to-smoke-on-a-plane. Meant to be light hearted! (apologies to anyone who has lost someone from an accident or lack of due care from an employer).
southstandandy
WEST STAND ANDY
- Jul 9, 2003
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Take a packet of Wine Gums into the Amex. Still pissed off the steward confiscated them last season as a likely projectile!
herecomesaregular
We're in the pipe, 5 by 5
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Still can't believe he did this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW3daihiY30[/QUOTE]
Jesus H! Yes, remember that. Absolutely bonkers. Top man for doing it though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW3daihiY30[/QUOTE]
Jesus H! Yes, remember that. Absolutely bonkers. Top man for doing it though.
Excellent work, I still have a scar on the inside of my forearm from jumping over a flint wall, which had glass embedded on top, when I was about 7. Our old house in Shoreham had the same all round the top of an 8' high flint wall.
Working in Romania, in 1999, on an oil refinery, we asked for some power to test some electrical equipment . . . .local 'engineer' dragged a huge cable over, and twisted the ends to our cable, red, yellow, black and blue . . . . . Then switched on the 415v 3phase supply . . . . Bare wires laying on the ground.
When we suggested some form of insulation might be a good idea, he threw a wooden pallet on top. That's was typical, I'm not aware anyone got hurt in the 6 months we were there, but you did need to keep your wits about you.
When we suggested some form of insulation might be a good idea, he threw a wooden pallet on top. That's was typical, I'm not aware anyone got hurt in the 6 months we were there, but you did need to keep your wits about you.
Camp Freddy
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There's a great programme on the Archive section of the BBC iPlayer about the construction of the Victoria Line in the 60s/70s. Not a single high viz jacket, hard had, pair of safety googles in sight!!! I watched that a few days after the series of programmes on Crossrail. Couldn't believe the difference!!
Arthritic Toe
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As a student I had a holiday job at Gatwick Airport cooking chicken, fish and hamburgers. There was not a single word about hygiene training. No one bothered to wash their hands or anything daft like that. One of the regular 'chefs' used to spit on the grill to check it was hot enough. If he heard the right fizz, it was time to put the burgers on.
schmunk
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I think that says more about their opinion of you than the sweets - I've taken loads of packets of sweets into the Amex, but always alongside my young children....
Rambo
Don't Push me
No, Paddy McGuiness sounds like Fred Dibnah. Have some respect, man.
Children now don't know the pleasure of playing on a plank swing in the parks. That was always my favourite in those carefree days for children following the end of WW2. No TV, iPads etc. Played in almost car free streets with friends. climbed trees, went to the beach without close parental supervision. I'm glad I was a child then and not now.
That was before paedophiles were invented around 1997, wasn’t it?
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
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Miss the days when I could run, free as a bird, with scissors in my hands
pasty
A different kind of pasty
One of the joys of living in a quite cul-de-sac is that children can, and often do, play cricket or football in the street. And yes, they use soft balls so won't damage the parked cars or smash windows
schmunk
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What? Paddy McGuinness from Bolton sounds like Fred Dibnah from, errr, Bolton...?
Grombleton
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- Dec 31, 2011
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I'm trying to work out if this is a 'things before health and safety' thread or just a 'the good old days' thread.