Pic I Stumbled Upon

[wesdavidson]

Had a friend that was putting together a building, the inspector wanted a tie off before he would inspect the joints, so they gave him one, 20 feet off the ground, the inspector didn't add up that a 40 foot rope wouldn't have helped much.

Safety is good, but a rule against wiping the sweat off your glasses, or requiring you to take your hands off the ladder, those can cause problems as well.

Recently the refineries around Salt Lake City have has some accidents. Basicly caused by people not doing things right. Seems like new owners, overworked experienced people, too many new folks with no idea why and how to do things, aging plants.

Hot permits are all well and good, if the folks signing them have the knowledge to know what they are doing. Rules can be downright deadly if the bosses are lacking.

[William McCormick Jr]

You think that picture is bad, check out this idiot. I want to nominate him for Jackass.com

http://www.Rockwelder.com/WMV/Blackpipe1.WMV

That is two ladders tied together with rope. Ha-ha. There is more but he would probably be very embarrassed if I posted it. It does look as if there is a slight resemblance between him and myself. But don't let that mislead you.


Sincerely,


William McCormick

[A_DAB_will_do]

Safety rules are always an annoyance, until you get bitten. (Yes I think requiring a harness for anything over 4' is rediculous. 8 or 10 feet is more reasonable and you should have a harness and lanyard that work before you hit the ground)

Standing in a loader bucket is a small risk with a big penalty. Gamble if you wish.

I used to think most of the safety rules, like equipment inspections and such, were a waste of time.

A fellow I worked with, named Paul, was just killed last year in a scissors lift. The deadman's pedal switch wasn't working. He was up high in a pipe rack welding. As he reached out over the lift railing his fall harness lanyard snagged the lift joystick. The lift elevated and crushed him between the railing and some pipe in the rack. The injuries weren't immediately fatal. He bled out in the hospital a few days after the accident, due to damage to his internal organs.

The lift should have been tagged out of service; but it was the equipment they had for the job, so they used it anyway. He gambled and lost.

Life is full of risks, and I'm not suggesting that you can live life and avoid all risk. But you should be working to manage life's risks and make them as small as possible.

Just my $0.02.

[William McCormick Jr]

We were at a school, insulating the backs of fresh air louver cans. We were in one of those diesel telescoping boom lifts. You figure what could be safer?

Oh my God, we were going under a school walkway, and the fellow I was with, hits the boom switch the wrong way by mistake, we were going about twenty miles an hour, and all I see is the walkway coming at me. Ha-ha. The reason this happened is because the switches are often backwards to what I like to think is common sense. And with the delay they have in them, by the time you see movement and figure out which way the movement is going, it is close to being too late.

I had no harness I was about to jump. Then I felt it go down. Ha-ha.

The relays have a time delay on and a time delay off on them. The most insane idea I had ever seen put into production. When you hit the boom switch for say, two seconds, nothing happens, then the boom moves. When you go to put the boom down you have to wait like two seconds for it to go down. The same with the extend and retract of the boom.

The controls are so un-American in my opinion that someone is surely going to get hurt. I use a lot of different equipment. And I can tell you we are never not surprised by some of the new zany ways you have to operate that stuff.

A lot of the equipment is like the new kids joy sticks. It is backwards compared to the way we older guys are used to using controls.

Sincerely,


William McCormick