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The good thing about social media is, it's not mandatory. However, you will be falling light years behind the rest.

Er Ernie Sigley was one of the very young DJs on Radio Luxemberg.

Just be careful of those rabbits mate, they can turn feral.

...and sydinay.

and "wunder" as well

One of my school friends slid off a roof over a gutter and broke his arm, one of my fleet customers decided to clean the leaves out of his gutters, fell and broke his neck and died, leaving behind a young family, a workmate retired and the forst job he decided to do was clean out the gutters - broke his neck and died. in all cases just out of reach for a tall man.

It must seem like it, what a massive job you took on!

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Three Quarter Midgets in speedway racing in the 1960's were having a run of fatal accidents, mostly caused by an error from the leading cars then everyone stepping on the brakes resulting in an avalanche of cars from rear of field running over the top of the leaders. Rules were changed to brakes on rear wheels only, hand operated only, so the reaction had to be to use up that valuable fraction of a section to steer round the issue. Result, no fatalities since.

How do you calculate stopping distances?

Because the cunning little sh!ts supersede drivers or when you buy new peripherals the drivers will not work on the old [in nerd years, sometimes three years old] computer systems, such as a new screen, or a printer.

Wouldn't have happened on a Jab!

That's the way it used to be, but it never worked - the injuries and bodies just stacked up more and more. Many of us signed those forms without a thought, and many went on to do what they did at home; how you could cut your toe off at a local hall working bee mowing a lawn on flat ground I don't know, but I know someone that did. How you would managed to get your thumb between the top of a jack and a slipping double decker bus, I don't know, but someone I know did. In fact how many of us have signed out at a flying school and ever read the contents of the attached pages, if after years, they were even still attached.

We have covered this quite extensively in a previous forum, and some very good ideas came out of it. Can't remember the thread, but maybe search "refuelling"

PM it might pay to ask this on a Ferguson forum, or historic tractor forum; they should be on to it in a minute. I haven't worked with the diesel.

Mark, I include any indoctrination, safety gear or processes in my quotes. Sure it magnifies the cost of a short job if you only go in once, but your computer/charger system can trip their safety switches and cost them downtime, and the bulk of that training, for regular employees is only done on average once per 5/10 30 years or whatever the turnout is. It guards against the visiting wanker, and I've seen them drive off tearing 240 volt lines out, rewire into lines which were already carrying their maximum, chop a 240 volt cable off by installing a guillotine over it, climb 7 metres up a shaky ladder, with no one stabilising it, then sit on the roof and paint up to and around the high tension wires coming into the factory, and the doozy, operate an excavator under 22,000 volt lines and lift the bucket which triggered off a sound like a stick of gelignite and left him rocking in the excavator for a minute or so with his legs off the floor and arms around his shoulders, cutting off our power for half a day (40 workers), and weakening the 66,000 volt line on the nearest pole which dropped off the insulator a week later and let of a bang like 20 sticks of gelignite and set fire to the pole - 40 people idle for another half day, and a fire truck call out.

There were many companies with many employees, including one I worked in manufacturing truck bodies where the operator didn't bother to check electrical cables until they failed somewhere. We never had an electrocution, but others did. The tagging program is designed to avoid this, and you're right, many companies have developed a safety orientated culture and have someone independent, not a penny pincher covering his expense budget, to sweep through the factory at regular intervals, which usually results in earlier, lower cost repairs to equipment anyway. Unadulterated posers, usually 50 km from the fires - not even in the zone where a fire officer would pull them up for not wearing gear.

If all those "lost count" accidents exist there'll be statistical figures on them, otherwise it's just puffery.

The truck fleet managers buy the stickers for peanuts - they're a generic sticker. The reason they do it is not because of macro-economics, but because most drivers of the heavier/higher trucks have specialised skills and the costs ARE big if the driver is off work for three months with a broken ankle. I'd like to see you step up at a truck stop and call one of these drivers a git. I'm on planet earth, show us all these statistics, and I think you might have made a dislexic statement about my eyesight being poor - I'm the one saying that like about 99% of the population I manage to get past emergency scenes without mowing people down.

Each year, farmers usually top the injury/fatality numbers, but the reason is they are not trained for milk tanker work, just as a milk tanker driver would have to be trained to crutch a sheep. The benefit of a sticker is that if a new person drives the truck the safe method diagramme is there for him to learn; most of us gut up facing the truck and jumped down facing out in the 60's, 70's, 80's; someone was smart to come up with the 3 process. Workcover visits farms these days so it's only a matter of time when people who haven't caught up are caught.

Yes they are very intense, but the surrounding vehicles and road are still visible. I'm not blinded, and we haven't had hundreds of accidents where unsuspecting motorists, blinded, crashed into vehicles or superstructure, so one way or the other this one's your personal issue.

Multistop truck drivers have a high history of long term knee injury, and long term back injury, and broken ankles, legs, severe injuries from falling off a truck when getting in or out. Often farmers drive milk tankers for extra money in the season. Those stickers are to teach them to face the truck, and use the "three" system, ie two hands around hand grips and one foot on a step, or two feet on the steps and one hand around a hand grip. If they happen to slip on a handgrip or step, this system gives them a chance to arrest the descent. Prior to that it was common for drivers in the extractive/earth moving/milk industry to come out of the truck facing outwards and do the long jump. If there was a piece of 4x2 on the ground hidden by grass they broke their ankle.

If that's the case you have a medical issue, and should get it checked before flying, or driving.

There is a syndrome, which we've mentioned on this site where human factors kicks in and two people will collide with each other, neither having consciously seen the other vehicle/aircraft regardless of its markings - fatigue related. It would be interesting to see the actual Workcover statistics of the rate of injury and death reduction over the period where more stringent safety standards were introduced. I saw something a few years ago which indicated the reduction was very substantial. Like the old seat belt arguments, most people who complain, give examples which might be true, but are very low volume exceptions.

Hail Creek Mine has the strictest standards by a mile in the Bowen Basin, but is the most productive mine.