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My old supervisors would routinely have us dawdle around during fire drills in hopes that we wouldn't have to leave our stations and cause delays in the hospital. In the two years I was there we only actually evacuated once for a fire drill and even then we didn't actually leave the building, just went to the bottom of the stairs and were told to go back up immediately. I grew up a short distance from where The Station was, and it made a big impact on me so I was really uncomfortable with our lack of fire training and preparation. Another time I smelled gas in our (large room of machines). The boss had me crack a window and told us all to keep working because it was "probably just smell from the construction". I went ahead and called safety myself and they told us to stay put too because it 'wasn't an issue'. We also didn't have fume hoods/safety cabinets for our biohazardous decanting area. I'm glad I don't work there anymore 
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Since we're doing personal OSHA, the company I work for has offices on the top floor of a building, and there's access to a very nice roof deck, with plants and tables and a scenic view of the other skyscrapers nearby. It's the scene of most company parties (weather permitting) and a common place for people on break to hang out. A little while back, a department which shall remain nameless had a party out there which got a little out of hand. In the grand tradition of Ruining It For Everybody, the powers-that-be decided to lock the door to the roof every night at 6pm or so. The only problem is that there's no lock on the door, since it's a marked fire exit. (Well, a fire entrance, technically. If you're on the roof when an evacuation happens, you need to get back inside to get to the stairs.) Undaunted by this, they have resorted to putting a bike lock on the door handles every evening. Word is that this is just temporary, and there's a new door on the way which won't be a crime reminiscent of one of those factory fires in Bangladesh. But for now, follow the lighted exit sign and hit the bike lock!
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Jul 29, 2015 16:37
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There's a guy across the street on the roof, doing something unspeakable to a chimney. I can't see any PPE.  lovely image because I don't want to be conspicuous: 
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Jul 29, 2015 16:49
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Tunicate posted:What irritates me is that they have the emergency warning alert sound playing in a tv commercial for the emergency warning thing. I swear I recently heard about a company getting in trouble because they were using the EAS sound in their commercials. Now if only they would ban sirens from radio commercials and alarm clocks in all commercials...
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Jul 29, 2015 16:56
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Pyroclastic posted:I swear I recently heard about a company getting in trouble because they were using the EAS sound in their commercials. It was the movie Olympus Has Fallen: http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/broadcasters-warned-new-movie-trailer-uses-actual-eas-alert-tones/84447 E: And where some broadcasters got tagged for playing the trailer: http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/3/5466892/tv-networks-fined-2-million-for-emergency-alert-olympus-has-fallen-trailer
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Jul 29, 2015 18:01
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Powered Descent posted:Since we're doing personal OSHA, the company I work for has offices on the top floor of a building, and there's access to a very nice roof deck, with plants and tables and a scenic view of the other skyscrapers nearby. It's the scene of most company parties (weather permitting) and a common place for people on break to hang out. I bet there's some way to turn whistleblowing on that into cash.
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Jul 29, 2015 18:59
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Fires in clubs makes me feel ill. Pls only post fun osha with destruction but no casualties 
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Tunicate posted:What irritates me is that they have the emergency warning alert sound playing in a tv commercial for the emergency warning thing. that's actually an FCC violation and a hefty fine.
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Jul 29, 2015 20:58
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Zopotantor posted:There's a guy across the street on the roof, doing something unspeakable to a chimney. I can't see any PPE. He's the home owner. Don't you know that you only need PPE when you are at work? 
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Jul 29, 2015 21:09
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Zero One posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21JGEGZ4Hyo  The conductor was questioned after the accident. Witnesses heard him screaming what sounded like "ABUNAI!" before the impact.
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FIRST TIME posted:The Great White Station night club fire. Interesting fact: this incident is why you are no longer permitted to construct buildings out of crepe paper soaked in lighter fluid.
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Jul 30, 2015 00:15
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Most notably no one knows how to park a loving car nose-in.
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Decrepus posted:Most notably no one knows how to park a loving car nose-in. Why are those parking spaces so loving huge?
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Jul 30, 2015 00:27
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Decrepus posted:Most notably no one knows how to park a loving car nose-in. I bet the car on the left parked first, and the rest had to park too far to the right to make up for that person's bad parking job. It seems to happen all the time. Had one time where I had to park right on the line because of someone like that, and it was the only spot available anywhere near where I wanted to go. By the time I got back, the other cars around me had left and it looked like I was the bad parker. Someone even wrote a passive aggressive note on my windshield telling me to learn how to park.
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The car on the left isn't even in a park. So if they were the first one there, they're retarded.
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IPCRESS posted:We also planned a multi-organisation emergency plan test in which everyone was meant to preface every radio and telephone call related to the exercise with "Jameson Jameson Jameson". See if you can guess what happened when the fire brigade were callled for a faux-chemical spill. I don't get it. Did they go looking for the Irish Whisky?
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Zopotantor posted:There's a guy across the street on the roof, doing something unspeakable to a chimney. I can't see any PPE. Reminds me of the single year of college I did. I was active in the theatre department, including building and tearing down all the sets and lighting. They have a big, rickety mobile scaffolding platform about three stories tall for hanging lights. I was cool with hanging off the side to hand lights up to people, but gently caress getting on the top. Not only was PPE not mandatory (not even sure if it was available), the platform had no railings. One mild enough nudge to lose your balance and you'd better have some quick loving reflexes. Still not the most danger I was ever in thanks to stupid theatre kids. During a teardown of the set for The Piano Lesson (we even got loving Woodie King Jr. himself to direct it), we had brought down the wooden frames for stuff like the archway between rooms and were tearing them to pieces; most of the wood could be recycled as long as it wasn't stapled together. One of the kids with me, James, is goony as gently caress. Major "Nice Guy" creeper toward women and obsessed with nerdy pursuits to the degree that he came to school dressed as a Jedi so he could practice a fan film's lightsaber sequence. He went through a phase of extreme Metal Gear Solid addiction and showed up to school regularly wearing Snake's headband, had a FOXHOUND patch on his backpack, and changed his ringtone to the Codec tone and text tone to the alert noise. James decides that the best way to disassemble the archway's lumber frame is to get a crowbar....and beat it apart. As I'm standing behind him asking if he's really sure he should be using that (as I'm pretty aware by this point that his competence in stagecraft is quite low), he pulls back in a big golfer's drive that comes inches from breaking my jaw and smashes a piece out, sending it flying across the room. Then he runs over to the opposite side, and I literally have to stop mid-sentence in telling him to be careful because he just did another golfer's swing at a piece of wood and sent a chunk the size of my head and studded with nails hurtling toward me, and I had to literally jump out of the way. It was finally the intervention of one of the girls helping that he was redirected to a new task and gave me the crowbar.
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baquerd posted:I don't get it. Did they go looking for the Irish Whisky? They deployed their hazard guys per the exercise intention, but did not mark out in their system that they were deployed on-exercise. The event plan was that should a real incident occur the exercise hazmat team would still be available to respond; due to the missed exercise identifier and thus flag, that unit would have been unavailable.
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Jul 30, 2015 03:16
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Re: alarm chat, this toy for children! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcDgOGC5Lcc
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The Nedelin Catastrophe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpX6HHBdEwo
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surebet posted:Re: alarm chat, this toy for children! The Video Description posted:Since I've now been asked several times if it's a real product I have to confess that the product in the video was actually made from a few different items all sourced from Poundland.
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doodlebugs posted:The Nedelin Catastrophe That's cool thanks
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So this one time, my bud and I were building the frames for an apron, and We're setting the pins on the string, I'm holding them, he's hammering them. And it wasn't till we had 4 driven in that I realized the wood had shrank and the head was coming off the hammer. Whoops! we put a screw in that and continued along.
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Jul 30, 2015 03:45
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chitoryu12 posted:It was finally the intervention of one of the girls helping that he was redirected to a new task and gave me the crowbar. 
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Zopotantor posted:There's a guy across the street on the roof, doing something unspeakable to a chimney. I can't see any PPE. As someone who works on rooftops every day, that is probably at least a 40-degree pitch on what look like slippery lichen dust-covered tiles Even with fall protection there's no way in hell I'd set foot on that portion of the roof
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DemonToadGoat posted:So this one time, my bud and I were building the frames for an apron, and We're setting the pins on the string, I'm holding them, he's hammering them. And it wasn't till we had 4 driven in that I realized the wood had shrank and the head was coming off the hammer. Pins and string are good, but you should really use a sewing needle, not a hammer, if you want to make an apron.
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FIRST TIME posted:The Great White Station night club fire. stangman posted:Christ, fire department was on scene in like 5 minutes and it made no difference at all. By 60 seconds the guy that just got outside is filming thick smoke and nothing else getting out. Scariest thing is the people all not panicking at first, like you'd expect/hope for, but literally within 70 seconds if you're not out you're dead. Yeah, the nearest fire station was like half a mile down the road but there wasn't much they could do to save people; it was calculated that anybody who wasn't out of the building within 90 seconds was done for. That whole fire was a testament to how a lot of little things can add up to disaster. Probably crucial to it was that there were two layers of foam stuck on the wall around the stage for soundproofing. The bottom layer was screwed onto the wall by a previous club owner in the mid 90s, and it was closed-cell polyethylene foam like this, the relatively stiff/firm kind often used to pad computer boxes and other things nowadays:  That club owner found the foam planks in a dumpster and didn't bother to figure out where it came from or if it was fireproof or what. Later some new super-cheapskate guys took over the club and were still being hounded by a neighbor about all the noise, so they bought some different foam that just happened to be sold by the company the neighbor worked for. They used 3M spray adhesive to stick the foam from the neighbor's company right on top of the other foam that the previous owner had found in the dumpster and screwed to the wall. This second layer was open-cell polyurethane foam, the floppy/squishy egg-crate kind like this, and while you can get this stuff in a fire-retardant variety, the owners of the club didn't bother:  Now, the egg-crate polyurethane foam was really flammable but it also burned up really fast. There's a good chance it would have gone up like flash paper without catching the whole building on fire. The firmer polyethylene foam underneath it was flammable, but its firm closed-cell construction meant it was hard to catch on fire, and the sparks from the pyrotechnic gerbs probably would have just bounced right off it without catching it on fire. So if the club had only had the polyurethane foam or only had the polyethylene foam, there's a strong chance that there wouldn't have been such a deadly disaster, and maybe not any fire at all. However, the fast-burning polyurethane foam turned out to be pretty much the ideal fuse to get the polyethylene foam burning, and as it happens, the polyethylene foam burns hotter than the blazes of hell and keeps burning for long enough to catch the whole place on fire. Meanwhile, the polyurethane foam was releasing hydrogen cyanide gas into the air while this was all going on. Of the 96 people who died at the scene (four more died of their injuries later) twenty of them had hefty amounts of cyanide in their bodies. If you're interested in this nightclub fire, I can't recommend the book about it called Killer Show highly enough. It's written by one of the lawyers for the victims of the fire, so it's harsh as hell on everybody involved while also being pretty engagingly written, with judicious amounts of dark humor and sarcasm directed at the people the author finds responsible. I checked out the Amazon "Look Inside" and was so quickly hooked by how the author tells the story that I bought the Kindle version right away so I could keep reading.
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Karl Rove posted:As someone who works on rooftops every day, that is probably at least a 40-degree pitch on what look like slippery lichen dust-covered tiles The uh... lichen you're seeing wouldn't happen to be that big bush or tree or whatever that is in the foreground would it?
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Tunicate posted:What irritates me is that they have the emergency warning alert sound playing in a tv commercial for the emergency warning thing. I think that tone gave me undiagnosed PTSD from heading it as a kid and at the same time being really interested in nuclear bombs. Even today when I hear the EAS tone it takes all my willpower not to crawl into a corner and have a little cry.
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Chomp8645 posted:The uh... lichen you're seeing wouldn't happen to be that big bush or tree or whatever that is in the foreground would it? Yeah that's it mate. It doesn't matter though, if he slips he can just grab the giant scaffold attached to the side of the building. However, I'm worried because I just now noticed the telephone pole clearly emerging from the center of the roof! That surely can't be safe.
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tacodaemon posted:foam Holy poo poo
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Chomp8645 posted:The uh... lichen you're seeing wouldn't happen to be that big bush or tree or whatever that is in the foreground would it? No, I've been on enough tile roofs like that that they're typically covered in some combination of a fine dust or little bits of lichen growth: obviously it's impossible to tell 100% from a grainy low-res photograph but the color seems to suggest it. It makes working on any roof that's remotely north-facing extra dicey. Karl Rove fucked around with this message at 06:05 on Jul 30, 2015 |
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Slanderer posted:Why are those parking spaces so loving huge? you are actually quoting the answer to your own question Decrepus posted:Most notably no one knows how to park a loving car nose-in.
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I found out that many/most installations of wood stoves are done without actually getting anyone qualified on it. I love people with plumbing contractor licenses use them to install heater systems and do then wrong. Is there a cash bounty for reporting this poo poo?
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BadSamaritan posted:My old supervisors would routinely have us dawdle around during fire drills in hopes that we wouldn't have to leave our stations and cause delays in the hospital. My old school in Korea had one fire drill. Everyone evacuated... to the cafeteria, which is on the far end of the building next to a cliff. The opposite end of the building was the sports field thing that you would actually want to go to. After the single drill they disconnected all the fire alarms because they were "too loud".
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Grand Fromage posted:My old school in Korea had one fire drill. Everyone evacuated... to the cafeteria, which is on the far end of the building next to a cliff. The opposite end of the building was the sports field thing that you would actually want to go to. School evacuation drills always seemed like the absolute worst idea, because they're focused around gathering everyone in a single large place (or several places) to wait out the danger. It makes the assumption that anyone planning on doing damage to the student body would just attack the school building itself and either set off a bomb in an empty classroom or mill about with their gun wondering where everyone had gone until the police came and/or they commit suicide. We ended up having one rather embarrassing problem in high school, though. There's a dance team that's notorious in the school for being extremely haughty and stick-up-the-rear end. If an evacuation happened, their instructor expected them to march single file out of the building in their marching pose: nose so far in the sky they can barely see the ground, chest puffed out, arms behind their back. She would even insist on them remaining in single file when it was blocking doorways.
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wedgie.blowjob ahahaha
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Jerry Cotton posted:How the gently caress does single file block a doorway? well let me put you a picture
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