Health & Safety?

[Nodzed]

You'd enjoy the Nuclear Industry mate, it's a whooooooole new level

Would be interesting

 

[mwpe]

Spent the last 18 years working for the Fun Police (H&S)

Don't worry Naill, we will still talk to you.

 

[Robert Wiles]

How I've still got all my fingers and both eyes is a constant surprise, but there is one memory that I still get a cold shiver about. As a lad I worked in an engine re-conditioning shop that also did other automotive stuff. A local haulage company brought in a DAF air brake cylinder that apparently had a broken spring, to have the spring changed. Now we'd never done one of these, so the guv'nor and I put it in the vice and gently started removing the circlip that held the cover on. BANG!!!!! "Wtf was that?" The cover, followed by the spring, burst out and on their way across the workshop missed our faces by millimetres. Once we'd cleaned our pants we had a look and saw that only the tip the spring was broken, leaving most of the force against the cylinder cover. Scary stuff. We did quite a few of them afterwards, but used a press to make sure the lid was held down.

 

[andyglym]

How I've still got all my fingers and both eyes is a constant surprise, but there is one memory that I still get a cold shiver about. As a lad I worked in an engine re-conditioning shop that also did other automotive stuff. A local haulage company brought in a DAF air brake cylinder that apparently had a broken spring, to have the spring changed. Now we'd never done one of these, so the guv'nor and I put it in the vice and gently started removing the circlip that held the cover on. BANG!!!!! "Wtf was that?" The cover, followed by the spring, burst out and on their way across the workshop missed our faces by millimetres. Once we'd cleaned our pants we had a look and saw that only the tip the spring was broken, leaving most of the force against the cylinder cover. Scary stuff. We did quite a few of them afterwards, but used a press to make sure the lid was held down.

Close shave

 

[t-tony]

As an apprenticed Agricultural Engineer I witnessed a young farmer do a similar thing on the traction belt pulley on a Combined Harvester in a field, he had limited knowledge but maximum bravado, it could have killed him.

Tony.