Re: accident at work : Thu Feb 16, 2012 12:11 pm  

saxoVTS wrote:

Had a accident at work what could off been a lot worse. Work have always banged on about wearing gloves but yesterday i had some braided tube on my lathe machine went to remove a piece off tape as i did the braid cought my glove and pulled me in. Managed to kick stop the machine and was freed resulying in a crushed a hand. Not broke but swollen and bruised from the fingers down.

Work have rang for me to in tomorow as they have to fill a report in as could have been serious but am i entitled to full pay. i started in october via agencey and was took on by company two wseeks ago

Why didn't you kick stop the laithe before you tried to remove the braided tube?

Common sense tells you that on machinery like that, if anything, AND I DO MEAN ANYTHING needs to be removed or in any way stops you from carrying out what you need to do, you stop the machine first. And that's not H&S b0110cks, that's basic 'stop yourself from being killed or injured.'

I even learned that in school in CDT lessons. If our teacher saw anyone operating a laithe without removing their school tie first, he would beat the shiit out of them, because at the end of the day, it was HIM who would cop the flak for it if anything bad happened.

Re: accident at work : Thu Feb 16, 2012 12:13 pm  

Rock God X wrote:

Its a good job he turned the machine of when he did, or it could off been alot worst.

If he'd have turned it off sooner, it wouldn't have happened at all.

Re: Hello : Thu Feb 16, 2012 12:14 pm  

WIZEB wrote:

You need to be pm-ing Damo. You can be one of his unemployed podcasting guinea-pigs.

Good shout. He could do a rap about the dangers of sticking your hand into a moving machine entitled How My Hand Ended Up Like Jeremy Beadle's.

Hello : Thu Feb 16, 2012 12:21 pm  

Rock God X wrote:

Good shout. He could do a rap about the dangers of sticking your hand into a moving machine entitled How My Hand Ended Up Like Jeremy Beadle's.

Every cloud has a silver lining. Can you imagine if his damaged hand is the one that he uses to write his CV's with? What a travesty.

Re: Hello : Thu Feb 16, 2012 1:07 pm  

WIZEB wrote:

Rock God X wrote:

Good shout. He could do a rap about the dangers of sticking your hand into a moving machine entitled How My Hand Ended Up Like Jeremy Beadle's.

Every cloud has a silver lining. Can you imagine if his damaged hand is the one that he uses to write his CV's with? What a travesty.

Nothing that can't be overcome with a bit of creativity. He could present his CV as a video of him performing a beat poem describing his positive qualities, with Damo on the bongos.

Re: accident at work : Thu Feb 16, 2012 1:11 pm  

In the last 3 years have spent 6 weeks unemployed so why would i contact damo. A did as have been trained to do.

Re: accident at work : Thu Feb 16, 2012 1:24 pm  

The entire workforce from you, your supervisor, his boss and all the way up to the factory owner have a statutory duty to protect your health and safety.
One of their obligations is to prevent access to dangerous parts of machinery. That doesn't just mean telling you not to touch it means physically preventing you from doing so. The HSEs attitude to this means high risk machines have to have interlocking guards, I.e guard not in place the machine won't operate. Its also not a defence for them to say that the machine needs to be unguarded to work - they will simply say safety takes precedence and to find another way of making the product. The only way you are likely to be at fault is if you deliberately ignored safety procedures.
Also, if you're off work for more than three days the injury has to be reported to the HSE. There are still plenty of firms out there who gamble with the safety of their workfor
ce. If I were I would make notes of everything that has happened for your meeting and take someone knowledgeable with you if possible. If the firm is at fault, the HSE will be on your side and they're not to be taken lightly.

Re: accident at work : Thu Feb 16, 2012 1:28 pm  

Quintuple post - stupid Blackberry

Re: accident at work : Thu Feb 16, 2012 1:33 pm  

Keith wrote:

The entire workforce from you, your supervisor, his boss and all the way up to the factory owner have a statutory duty to protect your health and safety.
One of their obligations is to prevent access to dangerous parts of machinery. That doesn't just mean telling you not to touch it means physically preventing you from doing so. The HSEs attitude to this means high risk machines have to have interlocking guards, I.e guard not in place the machine won't operate. Its also not a defence for them to say that the machine needs to be unguarded to work - they will simply say safety takes precedence and to find another way of making the product. The only way you are likely to be at fault is if you deliberately ignored safety procedures.
Also, if you're off work for more than three days the injury has to be reported to the HSE. There are still plenty of firms out there who gamble with the safety of their workfor
ce. If I were I would make notes of everything that has happened for your meeting and take someone knowledgeable with you if possible. If the firm is at fault, the HSE will be on your side and they're not to be taken lightly.

Recently changed to 7 days

Re: accident at work : Thu Feb 16, 2012 1:38 pm  

Keith wrote:

Quintuple post ...

Not now – sorted.