how safe are you at work?

Question

after it was bought to my attention that a regular poster on herewas involved in an industrial accident (i genuinly hope he has a full and speedy recovery)started thinking spend most of my waking hours at work?
my personal enviroment is both dangerous, with the added difficulty of proven dangerous service users, however all systems and procedures are checked and updated as required
whenever an incidient occours, ELAS are contacted and if it comes under RIDDOR the HSE are informed
guess i'm one of the lucky ones- how safe are you

Answer 1

Getting punched, kicked, spat at, scratched ......tis all in a days work for me :)
and then I come on here for more abuse lol

Answer 2

I've taken my safety for granted up until recently. There are gangs that have taken to brutal beatings and robberies. These robberies are so obviously not about money, as 6 young men or so, will beat a driver unconscious and steal his 20 bucks. That's not much of a take. This I've found out is actually a gang initiation, and has been perpetrated against 6 different drivers for 5 different companies within the past year. People call ask us why we don't go that neighborhood, acccusing us of racial profiling, but how do you explain that it is just not safe.

Another danger I've never thought of in the 11 years of driving, is the danger of lightning strikes. In Florida, during the summer, we have such intense storms (just the summer storms, not even talking about hurricanes) with frequent vivid ground to cloud lightning. I've been less than 10 yards from a lightning strike 3 times this summer. Something that only happened once before when I lived in Michigan.

Another danger, homeowners, and apartment complexes that don't take care of their properties. But I've already bored you enough.

Answer 3

Not safe at all. First I am an electronics technician, I work with devices that give off X and Gamma rays all day High Voltage is another hazard up to 39,000 volts, I work with live sets and have had the stew knocked out of me several times in the 30+ years I have been doing this.

Now my biggest hazard is irate customers. I just got out of the mental hospital because I went into a blind rage with a customer who attacked my physically. They are becoming more and more stupid, as I breathe (while I become less and less tolerant). It has got so bad I wanted to kill him, I was already pi$$ed off with his verbal abuse, but when he grabbed my shirt, all bets were off. Thank goodness there was someone there to help keep me off his dumb ***.

Folks wonder why I no longer come out to the home anymore. I walked into a person's home, to just a bad tempered idiot, and almost got into trouble with their dog being sicked on me because they thought I charged too much. I absolutely will NOT be in a situation like that ever again!

Now they are acting out in the store, I get anxiety attacks just going to work these days, since I never know who is going to be on my *** today.

Answer 4

LOL, my substantive post is in a Youth Offending Team, I undertake a lot of my work by way of home visits so we are subject to all kinds of risk and health and safety policies. I have to say though, in almost 9 years of working with young offenders I have had 1 chair thrown at me (in the office), I have been threatened with a baseball bat once (on a home visit) I have been spat at once (in the office), I have cut my knee once in the process of a restraint (on a residential programme), I have been followed home from work once!.

I am as you know opg, a student at present, and my most recent placement finds me working for IDAP (Integrated Domestic Abuse Programme) within the London Probation Service, indeed I have not long returned this evening from running a group with male perpetrators of Domestic Abuse so you can only imagine the risk and health and safety concerns for a female worker in that context - tonights group just give me a bit of verbal to try and intimidate me - they are getting better already because they have cottoned on very quickly that it is not working!

The form filling after an incident is a nightmare as is all of the movements sheets, movements board, checking in and out phone calls etc that all go to making my work environment as safe as it possibly can be for me.

Answer 5

I work in a school ,so my biggest danger is nits!

But seriously I am a trade union representative here in Spain and the record for industrial accidents here is atrocious.
The biggest offender is the building trade using "illegal" immigrant workers and therefore not implementing all of the safety procedures.


It is incredible to think that so many preventable fatal accidents occur in a European country in2007.

Answer 6

I mainly work from home and here I am safe. My dangerous time is driving from one meeting to the next or class or whatever is on the agenda for the day.

All you can do is always keep your eyes open and if it doesn't prevent an accident maybe it can minimize the injury/damage.

Good luck and stay safe!

Answer 7

Unfortunately health and safety is often only applied where it may suit the employer. They may speak about how health and safety conscious they are but when it comes to getting a job done often a blind eye is turned to get task done as economically as possible

Answer 8

The building I work in has police officers at every entrance that regularly patrol the building, so I think I'm pretty safe.

Answer 9

i got the worst surely, im a security operative at a college. 2000 14-22 year olds, all with bad attitudes to authority.

Gets the blood pumping thats for sure. lol

Answer 10

Not safe at all, I dont think anyone here would have the slightest clue what to do in some sort of emergency!

Answer 11

I am trained in advanced health and safety.
I am as safe as I perceive my self to be and because I work in a public area I endeavor to keep the public safe as best as I am able and as best as the public allow me to keep them safe