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    I have recently started working as a projectionist. My duties include maintaining all of the lights in the cinema. However, I cannot do this because I am not allowed to climb a ladder or step ladder until I have been on a course.

    I cannot be trained how to use a ladder safely by the people who have trained me to run the projectors and make up films. I have to travel to another cinema to spend a day learning how to climb ladders and tower scaffolding.

    And in three years I have to be retrained.
    "I can tell her you're all tied up in the projection room." Sunset Boulevard.

  • #2
    I'd say something meaningful here, but all I can think of is that my experiences with the OH&S people aren't even this petty...

    It's a step ladder, for God's sake!
    I think, therefore I am. But I am micromanaged, therefore I am not.

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    • #3
      Will you need a spotter and a safety net?
      Unseen but seeing
      oh dear, now they're masquerading as sane-KiaKat
      There isn't enough interpretive dance in the workplace these days-Irv
      3rd shift needs love, too
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      • #4
        There is currently and advert for injury laywers runnung in the uk which talks about getting big money because the worker "was given the wrong ladder". Ergo ladder training so you can't claim ignorance and sue.
        ludo ergo sum

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        • #5
          If your cinemas are even half-way similar to the ones here, you're going to need a fairly massive ladder, meaning things are slightly different. Common sense basically applies, but this is a CYA move on their part.
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          • #6
            It sounds like the aliens from the planet Bureaucraton have infiltrated the British Government and looking out for your safety.

            I say "Give me a break!"
            Op.125

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            • #7
              Are you aware that if you go up a ladder more than three feet you should have a hi viz vest and hard hat?

              No?

              Well according to my training in 'last job' I had to.

              Did I ever see said kit? Did I bollocks.
              A PSA, if I may, as well as another.

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              • #8
                Lol, my hard hat is in my desk. And my vest is stuffed in my hat.

                But as long as I been assigned the stuff. Only I can get in trouble not the store.

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                • #9
                  Quoth cinema guy View Post
                  I have recently started working as a projectionist. My duties include maintaining all of the lights in the cinema. However, I cannot do this because I am not allowed to climb a ladder or step ladder until I have been on a course.
                  oh REALLY?!? Can I tip off a previous employer for ladder abuse?

                  I don't feel the need to be ladder trained, but those ladders were awful! we tended to climb fixtures (warehouse) than use them. One the High Muckety-muck found me happily squatting on top of a over-engineered bookshelf unit restacking books. He made me get off and stand on a rickety-ass ladder wile working well-extended to get into the corner. Someday someone will drop a house on his head.

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                  • #10
                    We had to train associates on chemicals when I worked in an amusement park. I mean, baby powder is so dangerous... That was a wasted day.

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                    • #11
                      A thing to remember is that it's often not the HSE (Health and Safety Executive) that push this, it's overzealous head office types (who've never worked a proper day in their lives) compounded by Insurance companies having to pay out to thanks to the ambulance chasing lawyers.

                      Although I think it would probably calm down a lot if companies weren't so eager to settle out of court thus propagating the injury lawyers, it's a vicious circle that's going to get real messy sometime down the line
                      Lady, people aren't chocolates. D'you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling. Dr Cox - Scrubs

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                      • #12
                        I haven't had any that crazy, but I don't see why you have to be 18 to load the trash compactor or cardboard baler. I can see the liability issues that could arise from have minors actually operating them, but how the hell are you going to dangerously load it? I've seen people over 18 using it as a target for a game of cardboard frisbee, I wouldn't do any worse than that.....

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                        • #13
                          This is not new. IN the 70s, The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) actually released a 17 page(!) booklet on the proper use of a ladder.

                          Another one of OSHA's greatest hits was a farm safety booklet that they distributed to (who else?) farmers, which contained such gems as, "Manure on a barn floor may be slippery."

                          Said booklet was the comedy highlight of the year for our local farmers.

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                          • #14
                            BUT

                            Baby powder is bloody dangerous. Years ago they used to sell horrid red rubber puffer bottles, that you filled with your own talcum powder. They looked like kids toys, and parents would use them as such. But babies would puff them and puff them, having fun, and coat the linings of their lungs with a scented alkaline powder, and then suffocate...

                            It's bad for your eyes, too.

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                            • #15
                              Quoth anotherroundplease View Post
                              We had to train associates on chemicals when I worked in an amusement park. I mean, baby powder is so dangerous... That was a wasted day.
                              My son's school made him look up the MSDR (I think that's the term: manufacturer's safety data resource or something like that) sheets for Sharpie Markers since they were being used in school.

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