Any health and safety advisers on here?

I know. It's mind-boggling. If he had fallen it would have just been 'one of those things'. No accountability, no comeback. Soon be back there if Reece-Mogg gets his way.

Then there's Fred Dibnah ....
 
It's absolutely crazy. I'm by no means a modern safety nut . Yet watching things like this on YouTube almost make me cringe.

Just watch Fed Dibnah. The guy scales heights and stops halfway to have a sandwich. The greatest thing I heard him say was when someone asked if he was affraid of falling? His response.... 'I'd only fall once' 😂

To put things in perspective. I nearly got 'off sited' before Xmas when I stood on a empty blue wooden pallet. The guy said 'what happens if a nail goes through my foot?'. I had safety boots on with steel running down the middle. Yet I was nearly gone lol.
 
As a television director, I was health and safety manager on location for 30 years. The mind boggles watching that. I just can't even imagine how you would risk assess that and then allow it to go ahead without at least somesafety harness in play. For a start, the insurance would not cover that. My only guess is that Noakes must have signed some kind of "all risk" waiver.

I actually watch some stuff that the Top Gear/Grand Tour teams get up to and wonder who passed the risk assessment (bear in mind I worked on Top Gear).
It is a miracle that none of the presenters has been killed.
 
Dibnah took it to a whole new level with his jobs and hobbies.


Will never forget the clip of him bringing down a mill chimney by simply knocking a few bricks out the side and building a big fire to burn the props out…. Then casually walking up to it with a sledgehammer and knocking $hit out of it as it wasn’t going quick enough for him.

Final scene was him running like fcuk as the lot came down nearly on top of him.

Mad as a box of frogs that one


Did anyone see the documentary he did where he dug an actual mine shaft in his back garden?

Bet his neighbours loved him for that🙈
 
I remember being stood on the platform the night before the 2015 play off final and someone fell off! Never did hear if they were ok, though I suspect they were.
 
borolad259 said:
As a television director, I was health and safety manager on location for 30 years. The mind boggles watching that. I just can't even imagine how you would risk assess that and then allow it to go ahead without at least somesafety harness in play. For a start, the insurance would not cover that. My only guess is that Noakes must have signed some kind of "all risk" waiver.

I actually watch some stuff that the Top Gear/Grand Tour teams get up to and wonder who passed the risk assessment (bear in mind I worked on Top Gear).
It is a miracle that none of the presenters has been killed.
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They have tried their best, especially Hammond! :ROFLMAO:
 
His safety flares take me back. I remember jumping from pipe to pipe on a pipe rack at Oil Works in platform soled shoes, flares and a duffle coat in the 70s, that was after a liquid lunch.
 
Acklam_Lad said:
Dibnah took it to a whole new level with his jobs and hobbies.


Will never forget the clip of him bringing down a mill chimney by simply knocking a few bricks out the side and building a big fire to burn the props out…. Then casually walking up to it with a sledgehammer and knocking $hit out of it as it wasn’t going quick enough for him.

Final scene was him running like fcuk as the lot came down nearly on top of him.

Mad as a box of frogs that one


Did anyone see the documentary he did where he dug an actual mine shaft in his back garden?

Bet his neighbours loved him for that🙈
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I went on the pï55 with Fred Dibnah after an industry event at the old TallTrees. Looking back with hindsight he had been diagnosed with cancer, but hadn’t said anything yet. It was a great night and we were on it hard until about four in the morning, great bloke and funny as fcuk
 
I do lots of work in H&S and bring out that Blue Peter film when there are spanners who moan about 'Elf & Safety gorn maad!'

"Ok, you go up that ladder and then talk about how things were better in the good old days. Or perhaps you'd like to send your kids down a coal mine instead."
 
Work prevention officers as they were affectionately known at ICI, the method statements and risk assessment documentation was legendary but absolutely essential and vital.

#UTB
 
Lost a halyard up the mainmast on HMS Liverpool years ago. So instead of going to the Buffers shack and signing out a safety harness, getting the Officer Of The Days permission, getting all the electrical hazards, radars, transmitters etc turned off and getting a safety number, I decided "it'll be reet".
5 minutes later back down halyard in hand. Knackers were probably glowing with RF, but it was "reet" 😯🤣
 
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