Reply to: Scottish and Southern Electric

[cherhill]

Anyone worked for them? They seem to have an overly zealous health and safety regime there.

Reverse park
Hold handrails when using stairs
No hot drinks in lifts
Follow yellow lines when walking around the building

Don't think I'd last 5 minutes.

I work for a different energy company and they do the same. It's normal practice and really not a big deal anyway to be honest.

[Scruff]

I have a friend of mine who contracted there for about 12 months and its true... he would regale us of his tales of an H&S monitor who would stand on the stairwells checking that the handrail was being used and no hot drinks in hand!

Allegedy, it wasn't the most fun place to work. Parking seemed to have also been an issue (office on the South Coast).

Always, remember, always, look after the Invoicing and Collections...

[Project Monkey]

Not worked for SSE, but National Grid have the same policies.

[jimjamuk]

During a spell at a nuclear company

- after walking down some stairs with a Cisco switch under my arm I was turned round and told to go back up stairs and get the lift down
- was given a safety message of the day - at any time you could be asked what it was and if you didnt know it you were in trouble

[northernladuk]

Requiring a beard is surely against the equal opportunities act?

Particularly if you have a beard doomummy as well....

[northernladuk]

That'll be a paternoster.

That's the baby... Very scary bit of kit.

[eek]

Yep, last gig was a manufacturing and logistics co. All sites were dry, including head office - alcohol on any site was a sackable offence.

Had to do a written H&S exam before going onto each of the manufacturing sites. Only walk on marked paths, boots, safety goggles, ear muffs, hi-vis and beard doodaddy required in certain areas.

Requiring a beard is surely against the equal opportunities act?

[meridian]

Yep, last gig was a manufacturing and logistics co. All sites were dry, including head office - alcohol on any site was a sackable offence.

Had to do a written H&S exam before going onto each of the manufacturing sites. Only walk on marked paths, boots, safety goggles, ear muffs, hi-vis and beard doodaddy required in certain areas.

[Antman]

Transport companies are the same regarding blood alcohol limits - essentially zero for all staff on their premises. Christmas do this year was a bit of a downer!

[zoco]

Always found it amusing that the Nuclear Engineering Services (NES) building in Risley had all the H&S rules and more yet instead of lifts they had some antiquated revolving platform thing that was constantly going and you just stepped on and off to get between floors. Looked like an accident waiting to happen. I will bet my bottom dollar they don't have it now. Never got the hang of it and resorted to the stairs.

That'll be a paternoster.

[northernladuk]

Always found it amusing that the Nuclear Engineering Services (NES) building in Risley had all the H&S rules and more yet instead of lifts they had some antiquated revolving platform thing that was constantly going and you just stepped on and off to get between floors. Looked like an accident waiting to happen. I will bet my bottom dollar they don't have it now. Never got the hang of it and resorted to the stairs.

[quackhandle]

One of my contractor chums had a gig at Shell for a number of years and he said they employ people to make sure people were using the stairs correctly and holding the handrails.

qh

[PEEL]

ClientCo has all those and more. It has a counter on its website showing the number of days with "no work-related fatal incidents or other significant incidents impacting employees or contractors"

It's at 42.

BP has something like this when I was there. They also made you walk about 400m away from the building to have a cigarette.

[Pondlife]

ClientCo has all those and more. It has a counter on its website showing the number of days with "no work-related fatal incidents or other significant incidents impacting employees or contractors"

It's at 42.

[TheFaQQer]

Anyone worked for them? They seem to have an overly zealous health and safety regime there.

Reverse park
Hold handrails when using stairs
No hot drinks in lifts
Follow yellow lines when walking around the building

Don't think I'd last 5 minutes.

Had that when I worked at ICI years back - also, if you were carrying a hot drink the cup had to have a lid on it.

Never mind pumping a few tons of chlorine into the Mersey, it's having a lid on a mug which is important.