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It’s acceptable for men to wear their wedding rings
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Jimmer13
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Short is a Good owner and Bain a fantastic leader. Not true not true
vinegar hill
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Lack of knowledge
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stephen cartwright
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Safc will stay up
FootballFan
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Maddie McCann was not abducted by the Invisible Man.
I'm Spartacus
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I'd have put my house on Agnetha being the lebensborn child.
Good job I'm not a gambling man.
Oh and I'd quite happily clart on with both...
It's also a complete rip off of it.
Herculean bump mate.
It just reminds me of the days when this place was genuinely funny though.
It borders on insanity.
So the number one reason people are killed while working on railways is being hit by trains? f***ing hell, who knew?
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heston
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Sorry, but fuck off.
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It’s not acceptable for men to wear wedding rings .
It’s not acceptable to have a “baby on board” sticker on your car ffs.
It’s not acceptable to say “guys”
It’s not acceptable in a car for one parent to sit in the back with the bairn,what’s all that about ?!
It’s not acceptable to wear those daft cloth bracelets that are becoming popular
It’s not acceptable to start an email with “hi”.
It’s not acceptable for blokes to have a bath ,baths are for girls .
It’s not acceptable for lads to wear Vans .Vans are for girls .
It’s not acceptable to have a “baby on board” sticker on your car ffs.
It’s not acceptable to say “guys”
It’s not acceptable in a car for one parent to sit in the back with the bairn,what’s all that about ?!
It’s not acceptable to wear those daft cloth bracelets that are becoming popular
It’s not acceptable to start an email with “hi”.
It’s not acceptable for blokes to have a bath ,baths are for girls .
It’s not acceptable for lads to wear Vans .Vans are for girls .
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Billy Rocket
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There was too much Bradley.
There, I said it.
There, I said it.
ouro
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I've seen the 'baby on board' posts on here before. I was given to understand that they were to alert emergency services to look for a toddler / small child in the event of an RTA.
tunstallhill
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Add to that the fact that before workers rights wete introduced, men were treated as an expendable commodity and exploited for the gains of mine/yard/factory owners. And many paid with their lives. Enter the unions/socialist movements of the early 1900's and the realisation that the working man shouldnt have a high risk of death to do his job, the HaSaW act 1974 and this is where we end up. People have campaigned for years to allow us the right to work safely, it shouldn't be dismissed as unnecesary. If the torys get their way i wouldn't be surprised to see the loosening of H&S law and stupid people would lap it up as progress . I work in construction, death and serious injury is very much an everyday risk, and it should be managed seriously
Aituk7
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Must be a generational thing
Well you'd think it be pretty easy to dodge a train, I mean it's not like they can swerve about or anything. You know exactly where they are going. But the reason people get hit is because they don't bother setting up safety equipment properly cos they think if a train comes I'll notice it. Or they don't clock in and out on site properly and if an emergency train comes through they don't get a heads up because no one in charge knows they are on the site.
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Mick Dundee
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I was going to say that. Both Mothercare and Babies R Us have recommended we get them when we’ve been looking at car seats, for that reason.
Of course, everyone knows that the famous American skate wear brand was started in the 1960s as a ladies boutique!
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Aituk7
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Like I said mate I used to think it was overbearing nonesense but when it is explained to you step by step how this little piece of paper or this change in protocol leads to actually saving lives it makes you appreciate it a lot more. I just didn't realise like most people how important it can be. I remember when I was doing my trials as an apprentice engineer and going through the on site risk assessment which I presumed just no one bothers doing. But then we were shown actual cctv footage of 2 lads fitting a lamp post outside a depot, they presumed the designers of the site had worked out if everything was safe but if they'd bothered to do a risk assessment they could have proven it was unsafe as they were just within a potential contact zone with an overhead 11kv line. Now bearing in mind that zone is 8 metres and you think we'll never hit it.... and yet the air was moist enough that the power arc'd to the lamp post and completely fucked both of them up. Lads were 25 and 27 at the time and they made us view the images.... they're still alive but their knees and arms were completely destroyed.
ouro
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We have to tie off when working at height. Fair enough. The current threshold is 5 - 6 feet depending on local laws. I have just been informed that we are lowering this to 3 feet. f***ing hell man.
tunstallhill
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yep, on sites we go through risk assessments and method statements all the time, and lads inevitably turn off. then there is generic toolbox talks and safety briefings, and again, its difficult to engage. then every now and then you get a briefing, or video, of an actual accident, with interviews of the lads involved and it hits home. there is a lad in wheelchair chair who goes around giving presentations on sites. he fell off a ladder as an apprentice when he was 21, broke his back, never walk again, wife left him with the kids, no control of his bowels, has to have a shite by using his fingers to get it out, never be able to have sex again, sunk into depression, attempted suicide, drugs overdoses the lot. thankfully got the rest of his life back on track. all because on a friday afternoon, he left some tools on the top of the scaffolding and the ladders had already been untied.
the prevailing and reoccurring theme in these incidents, as always, is that people think 'it will never happen to me' - thats when H&S goes out of the window and thats exactly when accidents happy
you could do some serious damage falling 3 feet depending on what you landed on. admittedly, when H&S rules are misplaced and not used with a sense of proportion, it turns people against it
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pillars of hercules
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Very 2017
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