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James (Munro)
07-08-2006, 01:36
Just a quick question, what does HSE stand for? ...i'm assuming that it is an extrememly high qualification? ...i also apologise if the answer to you guys is a lot more obvious than it is to me, but better to look a fool for 5 minutes than to be one for the rest of your life :p any help would be appreciated, cheers :D
ardhill
07-08-2006, 06:49
Health & Safety Executive

It is more a safety and commercial qualification than a technical one http://www.hse.gov.uk/diving/index.htm

They are the boys and girls who look after all the safety rules in the workplace. For instance it's their fault that you are not allowed to tie a trainee up with a rope by the ankles and pull them up the outside of a 30 storey building anymore :rolleyes:

HTH
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Mark Cowgill
07-08-2006, 12:44
Health & Safety Executive

It is more a safety and commercial qualification than a technical one http://www.hse.gov.uk/diving/index.htm

They are the boys and girls who look after all the safety rules in the workplace. For instance it's their fault that you are not allowed to tie a trainee up with a rope by the ankles and pull them up the outside of a 30 storey building anymore :rolleyes:

HTH
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Yes Paul and that is why we dont get the same standard of apprentices anymore, When I did my apprenticeship it involved a tub of grease and a sling hanging from the arm of a JCB, perfectly safe though:eek: The trainees at our place think you have insulted them if you ask them to have a quick sweep round, they come back at you with the reply I have come here to be a welder not a skivy, getting away with too much at home if you ask me.
James (Munro)
09-08-2006, 01:04
Yeah, long live the carrot method :D (untill i have kids...then start handing out the sticks!! :cool: ) nah i agree with you though, and its probably my generation who are the snotty nose brats who dont even know what HSE means! :p
ardhill
09-08-2006, 09:28
nah i agree with you though, and its probably my generation who are the snotty nose brats who dont even know what HSE means! :p
No James, it's the snotty nosed brats who DO know what it means and threaten you with them just because you leave them parked in the middle of a warehouse on the end of a fork lift 30ft in the air :rolleyes:

No sense of adventure these kids today.
JimW
09-08-2006, 11:46
No James, it's the snotty nosed brats who DO know what it means and threaten you with them just because you leave them parked in the middle of a warehouse on the end of a fork lift 30ft in the air :rolleyes:

No sense of adventure these kids today.

not like the oldies snubbing their noses at the nanny state Eh!
Telegraph article (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/08/04/nswim04.xml)

pmp:D

Jim:cool:
James (Munro)
09-08-2006, 17:14
"No sense of adventure these kids today"

Yeah but i know oldies who think an air dive down to 90m would be "dangerous" meh, where is their sense of adventure? ... i might not enjoy being 30ft up in the air on a forklift truck because i prefer being below sea level, not above it (well not too high above it) :p