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And not enough chlorine. 😆
Now, now, let’s be kind 😈
saw somebody wearing this t-shirt:
rescue diver
interfering with natural selection
having been both a scuba diver and a safety officer [on dry land], i couldn’t help but identify with that sentiment.
.-= last blog ..Dominoes 5 =-.
Well… some might say that the lifeguard was G-d. 😉
I think I agree with SSG though. 😆
oooh! hipparchia… I have some great photos of various mine sites around the world of some really amazingly mind numbing safety stupidity, some by the supposed *safety officer* themselves! LOL I think on many mine sites, they just grab the first person they see and give them a brightly colored vest, so when something goes wrong, they know who to blame. 😉
I’ll see if I can put some up on one of those free pix host sites when I’m feeling a bit better. I still laugh when I see them! 😉
There have been people in situations that have given me reason to think “The future will not looking kindly on my rescuing this idiot”, especially if you have to do it more than once.
Yeah, I understand the sentiment too.
i’d get a real kick out of seeing those photos, kryten, but you don’t have to go to the trouble just for me. and yeah, the grabbing the nearest person is how i got started as a safety officer. can’t say i was especially good at it to start with, but the company i worked for did at least provide some rudimentary training, of course, that training only came after someone had been ‘given a brightly colored vest’ on several jobs and lived to tell the tales.
darwinism for safety officers, i can see the advantages.
.-= last blog ..Dominoes 6 =-.
If you would like a world of excitement, try dealing with the first true audit of two college chemistry labs in two decades.
There’s was a bit of consternation about the frequent appearance of bomb squads on the quad during that episode. We provided crowd and traffic control, well away from the science building.
Actually, I think the hauling of the storage cabinets outside to be shrink-wrapped and plastered with brightly colored warning labels before the guys in the space suits sealed them in the truck with even bigger labels on the side, was a bit too theatrical, but I wasn’t going to get close enough to find out.