Guest lightnix Posted August 28, 2003 Posted August 28, 2003 I just found this little snippet of information in another forum and thought I'd pass it on... " A company trying to continue its five-year perfect safety record showed its workers a film aimed at encouraging the use of safety goggles on the job. According to Industrial Machinery News, the film's depiction of gory industrial accidents was so graphic that twenty-five workers suffered minor injuries in their rush to leave the screening room. Thirteen others fainted, and one man required seven stitches after he cut his head falling off a chair while watching the film." Does anyone have any similar items they'd like to share ?
Stu Posted August 29, 2003 Posted August 29, 2003 Not theatre related I know, but in the dark old days of when I used to work for a well known supermarket bearing the giant orange, we were being taught how to lift in the warehouse. All very well until the guy doing so pulled something in his back because he was blatantly showing us incorrectly... Ah well he's learnt his lesson now I would have thought. Stu
Bryson Posted August 29, 2003 Posted August 29, 2003 During a first aid course at work, while dicussing accidents and the consequences thereof (ie: really grusome stories) one of the attendeees (yes, one of the Technical team) fainted straight off his chair. Believing it to be a set-up to "test" us, we all just sat and looked at him for a good while until the course tutor finally leaped into action.. :D
Guest lightnix Posted August 29, 2003 Posted August 29, 2003 If you're into gory H&S movies, check out... Staplerfahrer Klaus - Der erste Arbeitstag (Fork Lift Driver Klaus - The First Day On The Job) A hilarious parody of the H&S film genre. You can find it easily with Kazaa Lite (it's around 9 megabytes in size).
Thirdtap Posted August 29, 2003 Posted August 29, 2003 Story from a friend. They were on a first aid course and a 'student' cut themselves openning a wipe to cleanse the mouth of the resus dummy. Everybody had first aid kits to hand, but they comprised triangular bandages and such like no plasters or sterile dressings. So the tutor went to get some out of the buildings first aid kit to find it was locked and no one on site had a key!Somebody went to the shops and bought a small pack of plasters. So there was a happy ending.
Tom Posted August 29, 2003 Posted August 29, 2003 Maybe somebody should start a "things seen written in the accident book" thread.
robloxley Posted August 29, 2003 Posted August 29, 2003 I remember a time when we were considering acquiring some new (to us) seating from a recently closed cinema. A section of two seats were dropped off to measure/ inspect etc. Also we got the fire officer round to have a look at them - he was not much amused when they spectacularly went up in flames when tested - especially given said cinema had had them in regular use and claimed they were up to standard. Anyway, someone goes inside our building and retrieves a water extinguisher. Unfortunately this fails to work - with the fire officer stood watching! Luckily its service history was up-to-date and it just randomly happened to be dead. Oops.
robloxley Posted August 29, 2003 Posted August 29, 2003 Maybe somebody should start a "things seen written in the accident book" thread.Except that the Accident Book is covered by the Data Protection Act so you're on risky ground... Oh, and further to this, you need a new-style book by the end of the year, and to look after it in compliance with the DPA. The HSE will sell you one, and their website has more info.
James C Posted August 29, 2003 Posted August 29, 2003 Maybe somebody should start a "things seen written in the accident book" thread.Except that the Accident Book is covered by the Data Protection Act so you're on risky ground... Oh, and further to this, you need a new-style book by the end of the year, and to look after it in compliance with the DPA. The HSE will sell you one, and their website has more info. Interesting - I'd missed this completely. go here for more info.
PeterT Posted August 29, 2003 Posted August 29, 2003 During a first aid course at work, while dicussing accidents and the consequences thereof (ie: really grusome stories) one of the attendeees (yes, one of the Technical team) fainted straight off his chair. Believing it to be a set-up to "test" us, we all just sat and looked at him for a good while until the course tutor finally leaped into action.. Same thing happened to me at my first First Aid Course. We were watching the nice video about different types of bleeding and one guy there just changed colour and nearly fell off his chair. It was quite spectacular to see the colour literally drain from his face! fortunately the tutor spotted it in time and got him on the floor and his legs in the air. and the rest of us, we all sat there like lemons! :D
James Posted August 29, 2003 Posted August 29, 2003 Everybody had first aid kits to hand, but they comprised triangular bandages and such like no plasters or sterile dressings. How odd - That is exactly what happened to me - I was taring to cut some thick heatshrink on some multi and as I cut I slipped and scraped my hand on the monitor rack in front of me. Trying to work out if having a sharper knife would have stoped me from doing it....
landy Posted September 4, 2003 Posted September 4, 2003 I have first hand experience of first aid... My chum and I were stacking flight cases and I managed to hit him in the face with one. Being the first aider I then patched him up. The full service. Strange thing is, the guy still brings it up, something to do with hospital and a scar. but we are still friends ;) :)
James C Posted September 8, 2003 Posted September 8, 2003 Oh, and further to this, you need a new-style book by the end of the year, and to look after it in compliance with the DPA. The HSE will sell you one, and their website has more info.Well, got my new accident books today. They seem a little cumbersome. They're basically a book of report forms, with perforations on each page. Fill in incident no. on stub. Fill in same no. on form. Fill in form, then remove form and store in a safe place where the information can remain confidential. After one book's worth of accidents, you're left with a book of numbered stubs, with each one having a corresponding numbered form stowed away somewhere. While I understand the reason for personal details to remain confidential, it would seem sensible to me for the raw details of the incident to remain in the book, so that if, when filling out an incident form, you discover that this is the fourth person to fall down that icy step, you can take appropriate action. It seems to be that a very simple, informal additional means of monitoring has been removed unnecessarily. Rantette over with. Thanks for listening.
robloxley Posted September 8, 2003 Posted September 8, 2003 I think they assume that the person filing the forms (manager/ HOD/ safety officer etc. as opposed to the person filling it out) might do a brief analysis of the form's content. It does however mean that as the person who had the accident you can't flick through and see how many people have had similar accidents in the past and someone should have done something...
Ellis Posted September 11, 2003 Posted September 11, 2003 Has no-one noticed that an unscrupulous employer could remove a stub and loose the corresponding form before another accident os reported and no-one would be the wiser! (unless the number of stubs is actually counted). Well, I suppose that the HSE will count pages if too many people fall off Genies, tallescopes towers, truss, etc :) Ellis
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