[modeleng] Re: Shut yards, HSE and spoiling of fun

All joking aside, a hard hat in such places is a good
idea.  My former boss had one that looked like a
"Cowboy Stetson".

Al Messer
--- Eric Walker <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Last week I went to a local engineering works where
> I buy steel now that the 
> boat builder who supplied me has retired to
> Queensland. They have allowed me 
> into the shop to select what I require, but now they
> issue me with a 
> florescent jacket & I must sign in. I asked where my
> hard hat was .
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Harry Wade" <hww@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 2:39 PM
> Subject: [modeleng] Re: Shut yards, HSE and spoiling
> of fun
> 
> 
> > At 02:23 PM 6/21/07 +0100, you wrote:
> >>Would anyone else care to comment, or disagree
> with my thoughts? - Rich
> >
> > Rich,
> >     We have very much the same situation over
> here.  Many places where one
> > was formerly allowed to wander are now off-limits
> and the universal reason
> > is now "Insurance regulations" and there is every
> reason to believe that 
> > is
> > truly the case, for much the same reasons you
> state.  The primary focus of
> > OSHA (our H&S) is life safety, not litigation
> prevention although that is
> > certainly a secondary effect.  But there are also
> a number of suituations
> > where shops simply don't want to have the nasty
> public wandering about so
> > "Insurance regulations" is given as a convenient
> excuse, rather than just
> > out and saying we don't want to you wandering
> around back there or
> > attempting to serve yourself.
> >     I have two or three local metals suppliers,
> all of which once allowed
> > me (ie, the public) to go into the shed and sort
> through their "drops" 
> > bins
> > for shorts & odd bits of metal, and as often as
> not I found and came away
> > with much more than I'd initially intended to buy.
>  But no more, 
> > "insurance
> > regulations" forbid it, so IF I go back at all it
> will be to buy only what
> > I need and no more.  I think they simply don't
> want me wandering around 
> > the
> > shed.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Harry Wade
> > Nashville  Tennessee
> >
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