All Safety blunders articles 鈥� Page 10
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好色先生TVCheap labour
They鈥檙e organised, industrious and immensely strong. But did the developers of the Birmingham Rotunda really resort to employing insects?
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好色先生TVStep-by-step safety
So the first stepladder leads up to the mobile platform, then you have your second stepladder on top of that 鈥� clever!
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好色先生TVA little circus training is a dangerous thing
No, man, no 鈥� you have to hold the ladder at right angles to the roof ridge if it's to work effectively as a balancing aid!
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好色先生TVA balanced approach to safety
Wearing no shoes makes climbing the ropes up to the roof section much easier for these Indonesian workers
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好色先生TVThey鈥檙e remaking Casablanca!
Our thanks to Gavin Edwards, who sent us this picture of a project in a certain well known Moroccan city
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好色先生TVRock till you drop
And it probably won't be long until you do drop, if your scaffolding rests on a pile of stones on a sloping roof
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好色先生TVAscent into heaven
Not clear at this point whether the heavenward journey will take an upward or downward trajectory鈥�
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好色先生TVTable top rock
Not sure if this is what is meant by 'stackable furniture'鈥� and there must be easier ways to put up a satellite dish
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好色先生TVTrouble at the top
Our thanks to Martin Sheaf of Briggs & Forrester Engineering Services. He writes: 鈥淚 saw this on a recent trip to Mohammad Ali鈥檚 mosque in Cairo. I spent more time amazed at their complete lack of health and safety than the tour we were having.鈥�
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好色先生TVGetting Channel Five in Turkey
Paul Mountford was relaxing at his hotel in the resort of Icmeler, when he spotted these men playing the ancient Turkish sport of giant frisbee. Hmm, on second thoughts, they might just be putting up a large satellite dish...
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好色先生TVLife on the ledge
Standing in the gutter is handy 鈥� if hardly safe 鈥� for cleaning that particular storey, but how's he going to do the next one up?
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好色先生TVThis ain't the school gym
If your workers are that good at shinning up a rope, what's the need for scaffolding?
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好色先生TVStuck in a bucket
It's clear enough how they got up there, but 鈥� as the driver appears to have vanished 鈥� we're wondering how they'll get down again
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好色先生TVThe ladder to heaven
This week we鈥檙e buying a drink or two for Cora Wallet of Hakes Associates
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好色先生TVHow the Trojan War was won
Clearly at least these Greeks are utterly fearless 鈥� even gravity holds no terrors
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好色先生TVRoll out the barrel
So, the ladder's too short - just put it on the bin. Hmm, that's got wheels - no problem, just wedge a pallet against it and weigh that down with a barrel鈥�
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好色先生TVWomen and children first
Chivalry is not yet dead for the good folk of Bolton. Dave Billinge snapped a digger driver who, realising his bucket was blocking a footpath, kindly lifted it out of the way. Seems he can鈥檛 look either...
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好色先生TVStroll in the sky
This chap looks remarkably chilled, given that he's atop the roof ridge of a three-storey house with no visible means of support
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好色先生TVBored of boards
What a bore it is putting up scaffolding boards 鈥� and why bother one can manage fine without them, as this picture shows?