No more chrome?

[elvimto]

Just have it sent over to the US I believe they still do triple plate in Arizona and I have a local guy in L A that does chrome at a good price. I work in the refining game and they, the oil companies,unions and CAL OSHA, have really helped worker exposure to what we do in regards to products i.e. benzene to name but one. H&S get a bad rap but that's just when they go over board some workers need it to be protected from themselves, I just want my chrome done right.

[Staggard]

Don't worry lads your still be able to get your chroming done here or mainland, as the Spanish ignore all EU directives that does not suit them. It seems to me its only Britain that do as they are told and are first to comply.

[dasadrew]

...How ridiculous they don't ban the obvious cancer causing things such as cigarettes.
Edd

....not to forget the enormous damage done by beer and wine!

[grumpy2]

I'm expecting a full H&S inspection in the coming months as one of my Technicians had a 'significant injury at work'.

A piece of equipment had been incorrectly stored and due to its insecurity became dislodged causing multiple and sever lacerations to limb resulting in hospitalisation.

what actually happened was he was washing a coffee jar and it fell off the drainer, in his attempt to catch it it smashed and cut his finger resulting in two stitches

I really do now have to have a risk assessment for washing dishes and will have an H&S inspection in the coming months where the incident and control measures will be discussed

amazing!

[Guest]

I'm expecting a full H&S inspection in the coming months as one of my Technicians had a 'significant injury at work'.

A piece of equipment had been incorrectly stored and due to its insecurity became dislodged causing multiple and sever lacerations to limb resulting in hospitalisation.

what actually happened was he was washing a coffee jar and it fell off the drainer, in his attempt to catch it it smashed and cut his finger resulting in two stitches

I really do now have to have a risk assessment for washing dishes and will have an H&S inspection in the coming months where the incident and control measures will be discussed

amazing!

FFS! Really, a risk assessment for washing up, easier to buy a dishwasher. We are supposed to have "tool box talks" for driving our vans!!! Barmey

Jason

[Trigbush]

Chrome question (and I realise that I may be opening the proverbial hornet's nest):

The chrome on my car looks good. But the door handles are pitted and faded. I have heard that they are a b*gger to remove and that getting them done is a real pain. Is this true?

[jleyton]

China in the mean time will carry on belching out every toxin known to man . Even our used tyres power some power station brought through the back door.
Edd

Hi Edd,

I know what you mean about China and pollution however it's taken us a couple of hundred years to get to the level of 'clean' air that we have today in this country. China, on the other hand, has effectively gone through it's own industrial and technology revolution virtually all in the space of just a couple of decades

They are now waking up to the fact and are beginning to try to clean things up - here's an interesting article that was in The Economist recently.

Cheers

Julian


China’s parliament
The smog of war
The prime minister opens parliament by declaring pollution the enemy
Mar 8th 2014

THE annual session of China’s rubber-stamp parliament, the National People’s Congress, is rarely remarkable for the rhetorical flourishes of the leaders who address it. But at the opening on March 5th of this year’s nine-day meeting the prime minister, Li Keqiang, in his maiden speech, deviated at least a little from the usual stodgy fare. China, he said, must “declare war” on pollution. The blanket of smog that often shrouds much of the country, he said, was nature’s “red light”, warning about the risks of “blind development”. Growing public furore about pollution has at last goaded China’s leaders into admitting the urgency of the problem.
On February 21st the capital issued its first “orange” smog alert since it introduced a new four-tier warning system last October, with orange as its second-highest level. The warning meant schools were supposed to suspend outdoor activities. As the noxious haze lingered, microbloggers expressed outrage that a top-level “red” alert was not issued. Many accused the government of failing to deal with the smog.
Such criticism has clearly stung. Mr Li’s state-of-the-nation speech dwelt on the problem of air pollution much more than those of his predecessors. He acknowledged that smog was affecting an increasingly wide area and said authorities would fight pollution “with the same determination with which we battled poverty”.
That may be an unfortunate comparison, much of China’s success in dealing with poverty having been a by-product of the same rapid growth that has wreaked environmental havoc. But Mr Li is not aiming for another boom. He said China’s GDP would grow this year by about 7.5%, slightly slower than last year’s rate of 7.7% and considerably below the double-digit rates of the first decade of the century. He said that plans to shut down “backward” production facilities in the steel, cement and glass-manufacturing industries would be completed a year earlier than forecast.
Mr Li also said the amount of energy consumed per unit of GDP growth would be cut this year by 3.9%, after a 3.7% drop last year. He omitted to mention that coal consumption, China’s biggest source of energy and a major cause of smog, is expected to continue rising. But he did say that emissions of sulphur dioxide (which result from burning coal and contribute to smog) fell by 3.5% last year and would drop another 2% this year. Smog notwithstanding, researchers at Harvard University last year said China’s cuts in sulphur-dioxide emissions in recent years may have been “one of the most swiftly effective air-pollution policies ever implemented anywhere”.
In recent days internet users have heaped scorn on a Chinese general who said on state television that smog might protect China from attack by American laser weapons. Mr Li wisely avoided repeating the claim. But his government is not scrimping on defence. A draft budget submitted to the legislature calls for a 12.2% increase in military spending this year (up from 10.7% last year); overall government spending will rise by 9.5%. In a pointed jab at Japan, he said that China “would not allow anyone to reverse the course of history”. The war on pollution was, however, the only one he declared.

[grumpy2]

FFS! Really, a risk assessment for washing up, easier to buy a dishwasher. We are supposed to have "tool box talks" for driving our vans!!! Barmey

Jason

Dishwasher! Not allowed one of those unless it's from an approved supplier! Ie 30% above retail prices.

[edd]

Smoking is banned from workplaces, ie where people have no choice but be exposed.

I'll get me coat.

Yes very true but how about those kids sat in the back of a car. I love the law on putting a sign in my van seeing as it's a public space . All my smoking mate smoke whilst driving the law is a joke as are mobile phones I see them in use every day .

[mike@thenook]

Don't worry lads your still be able to get your chroming done here or mainland, as the Spanish ignore all EU directives that does not suit them. It seems to me its only Britain that do as they are told and are first to comply.

Yep - you've hit the nail right on the head there!

Everyone else in Europe must just laugh at our (British) desire to comply with all this cr*p.

[Goldstar]

FFS! Really, a risk assessment for washing up, easier to buy a dishwasher. We are supposed to have "tool box talks" for driving our vans!!! Barmey

Jason

See it from the employers' side as I do and you will think differently. If we don't do toolbox talks or risk assessments for the bleeding obvious, the minute someone has an incident, they are off to the ambulance chasing lawyers. Sadly we have to protect ourselves against the unscrupulous legals who know that an employer is more likely to settle than fight. If ew haven't done the 'barmy' things, we're screwed.

[mike@thenook]

That was the other point I missed that H&S is mainly born out of those thieving lawyers lining their ever deeper pockets out of someones miss-fortune - they lend absolutely nothing to quality of life just make everyone scared stiff of doing anything.