April 6th, still 3 days under RIDDOR until then.

I am involved a lot with H&S on construction sites and I asked a manager what was the most important change in H&S legislation to him, he replied 'corporate manslaughter, now the bustards will let us have what we want'

RIDDOR

as stated reportable for a 3 day absense, although the poster above who said 7 days is nearly correct, that changes on April if legislation is passed.

Glad to hear there was no serious injury. I note you do not want to risk a fall-out with the company. It is worthy of note that you have 3 years to bring a personal injury claim, should you wish to at some point in the future.

the risk assesment was done in 2009

All the things what were needed e.g a winch system to lift 50k+ coils off wire on to a turntable were classed ticked as urgent as possibility off hurting backs an still not in place resulting in a complaint end off last year when a lad could't lift a reel he was called a wimp an told to get to the gym or go through the door by the superviser. He was a agencey lad the superviser was given a warning he left. cant rember anything about the lathe but a will have a look tomorow as have access to it

They accepted fault and give me full pay plus redoing the risk assesments also now gloves are not to be used well in opperation

Compensation?? Where there's blame there's a claim!!!!

Yeah, give that disgusting, hideous, fat, piggy-eyed toad Hudgell a ring. He'll sort you out.

The first part is good. But I wonder if the gloves are potentially a good thing provided other safety measures are in place - like amended practices, machine guards, etc? Sounds to me like they've potentially not fixed anything and gone for the cheapest option. I would imagine that gloves could prevent peoples hands getting slashed or worse if used in conjuction with a more safe working environment. I suspect what'll happen at some time is someone gets severe damage to their hand if there is a lack of other appropriate safeguards.

What I am saying is, of course, pure speculation.

Excellent A step in the right direction. At least it's your speculation as opposed to the b0llox you monotonously quote from on a daily basis.

On the HSE website it says changes 6th April 2012.

They cant install guards dew to it would make it imposible to run the jobs as was discussed in the meeting. There were basicaly happy it was'nt as bad as ot could off been.

Doesn't the dew cause the machines to rust?

You'd think so. There must be bloody loads of (off?) the stuff, the number of times he's mentioned it.

LOL, but not as bad as Andy Good

The compensation culture infuriates me. I was reading something the other week about how the number of road traffic accidents has dropped dramatically, yet the amount of personal injury claims arising out of RTAs has gone through the roof.