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19th March 2015, 10:05 AM #46Pink 10EE owner
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Back to lathes...
Things I have had happen....
HSS tools breaking and flying off at mach2.54
Workpiece flying out of chuck and being launched into low earth orbit.
late one night needed to do a lathe job without shoes on.... Raked some stringy swarf across a toe and got a nasty cut.
shirt in feedscrew.
and that is about it and all those things happened a fair while ago.. The more lathe work I have done the more learned I have become about things..Light red, the colour of choice for the discerning man.
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19th March 2015, 01:21 PM #47SENIOR MEMBER
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19th March 2015, 10:32 PM #48future machinist
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I don't know my work is a WHS nightmare, Some rules are just silly a case in point a guy at my Tafe ripped his tendon from his hand, on a drillpress because it was mandatory site policy that gloves are to be worn at all times and guess what his glove got caught
BETTER TO HAVE TOOLS YOU DON'T NEED THAN TO NEED TOOLS YOU DON'T HAVE
Andre
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20th March 2015, 12:31 AM #49SENIOR MEMBER
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The other day i was at work, was early morning so not everyone was onsite yet, small job anyway, i was in a corner on my own. No one around me within 20m or more. I was working on my bench and i took my hard hat off and placed it right next to me. Had gloves and glasses on. Well the builder seem me and made a big issue about me not having my hat on and wanted to send me for a reinduction. I really dont get it somtimes. Yes i understand the site requires you to have ppe on at all times but come on. Half the time i dont even see a need for hardhats fullstop.
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20th March 2015, 01:14 AM #50
I taught the basic OH&S module enough times to tell you its almost engrained into students .If a machine tool is rotating,you keep any clothing including gloves and unbuttoned shirt sleeves away.The kid with a ripped tendon has grounds for a lawsuit on the grounds of on pis poor advice.
The other side of the coin is that if the same bloke felt using gloves on a drill press was unsafe why on earth, did he go ahead with what he should have a perceived as a unsafe act. I also shudder to think about the same blanket rule on the use of gloves while running a bench grinder on that same site. As part of the same module it was always taught if you were not happy with a situation do not not proceed, take it up higher.Better to lose a job than a finger anyway.
I can't believe a trained safety officer would institute such an insane policy- they would leave themselves wide open for some major grief.
Such a directive could only come from an untrained uncertified numby. Some sites would not tolerate nonsense like that and justifiably call a union meeting. What happened to the safety theory where we taught -assess the hazard? For sure,this donkey was not a safety officer.
Its the same thinking as some of the you tube- how to do it experts - where they wear gloves while using an angle grinder without a guard or a handle.
As I keep saying you can't teach common sense.
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20th March 2015, 05:28 AM #51SENIOR MEMBER
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Hi Grahame,
I have been trying real hard to stay out of this discussion as where I work is going through an industrial enema at the moment.
I dared to say out loud that a particular situation was unsafe and managed to get charged with three breaches and received a first written warning for my efforts.
Should I have another breach, dismissal is on the table and seeing as how I am being watched, this comment could be it.
Sadly, my opinion now is to not speak up.
Thankfully, it is not like this at every workplace.
Phil