Bowler Hatted Turner,
Thanks for raising this issue, timely reminders on such matters can never be untimely, and the responses received underline this!
Seventhdevil,
I read most of your comments in posts with interest and respect for your knowledge but would never agree with your comment:
"I don't have a first aid kit as i don't need one".
Having trained in engineering and worked in the manufacturing industry all my life, in small companies through to very large global organisations, I make the following points:
> They all took H&S (and EHS) very seriously (as they should have done) with constant focus and routine checks to ensure adequate training and resources were always available.
> I worked with several colleagues who had had the misfortune of having a part of one or more of their fingers missing (as an example) and none were caused through deliberate actions!
> As an engineering manager, and being in the right place at the right time, I hit the emergency stop and comforted a machine setter who had badly injured himself on a rotating hydraulic arm. I won't give the details here, but the 'accident' was caused by his own actions, which were not deliberate.
Apologies to you if your comment was a joke, but I didn't take it as such, and I don't see the need for it if it was.
H&S is no joke, and no-one should ever treat it as such - as anyone who has been on the receiving end of an accident would tell you, if they're around to still be able to tell you!
With regards to all
Sandy