Rhys

4 Im office based job in Food manufacture, but i often go down on factory floor and is a lot of stuff going on down there.

shifty

10+ for me cos no one at work gives a fook about saftey can only describe it as a gloryfied hgv scrap yard. accidents are fairly regular i even managed to break the bosses back . Weve only had one fatality tho.

Dangerous Malcolm..

Not very dangerous, I'm a postie.
Although I have been bitten by a dog once.

c.fogarty

Spent 10 years as a roofer, back when you could get away without scaffold/harness etc. Used to do 3 up n' overs with back additions in a week with everything carried on your sholder on pole ladders, which could get a bit naughty very quickly

As said before, you'd think with all the H&S/Inductions/PPE/Permits etc, I now have to go through just to fit a Kitchen, is more dangerous than being a Mafia Supergrass

StephenC

best tell that to the court he ended up in then. Take Manchester Royal infirmary. It is fed from two 33kv intakes that transforms down locally to 6.6kv providing two totally seperate feeds to the hospital. On site there a 4 broadcrown 2mva diesel generators for standy generation. When mains fails the sets come online and power the hospital. I know for fact right now that one of those sets is damaged and will not start, one of them will not take any decent ammount of load leaving two sets to run the whole site. They are able to do this providing that the switchgear (namely the check sync) allows them to close on and take the load. It does not take much at all for this supply not to be available. Yes the equipment in hospital is battery backed up, this does not last forever. When the mains fails and the sets also fail there IS a finite length of time before the shit hits the fan. This does happen and HAS happened. Dont tell me my job and I wont tell you yours. As for saying, you cant just turn things off, thats what you think. So 'sorry mate, thats bollocks'

godzilla

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I do a few different jobs. Scaffholder by trade, Doorman and teach Kickboxing.

Doorwork can be a bit naughty..... had a few knives pulled on me.

Teaching Kickboxing.can be dangerous!.... Will ever forget a girl called Sam. 19 years old and wanted to learn Kickboxing as she was being bullied by other girls she worked with as she was only 5'1 and weighed a tad under 7st. She came to my sessions twice a week for 18 months. I sparred with her one day and said 'give it all you have Sam, dont worry about me' within a flash I was on the deck, she had given such a great upper cut it took me straight down!

Psycho Warren

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trafalgar class used to be SSN's but on fitting of Tomahawk Land Attack Missile they have been recategorised SSGN the G standing for guided missile.

im about 80% sure the pic is a trafalgar class as the RN currently has only Swiftsure class, trafalgar class and astute class Attack submarines and that aint no astute

The video i posted was a vanguard class SSBN.

Ellie

We have diesel generators that kick in when power is lost.
Someone shouldnt die because the theatre lost power, they should have had back up surely??

Psycho Warren

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i also thought most theatre esential equipment had short term battery back up for power loss. I know it did when i worked in theatre 10 years ago!!!

Ellie

not just for theatres but the whole hospital.

lozi

i do shot peening which aint very dangerous unless we are peening huge oil drilling components.

altho i got abit of shot in my eye the other day and went to A&E as i couldnt get it out so as your eye is important ill say 10

cosy trav

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Im a sparky and other than getting at least 2 shocks a week ( work on a lot of live stuff by choice , kind of makes the job more interesting ) the closest to serious injury ive been to is when i was working in an iron foundry working on a 100 amp 3phase machine , changed a coil in an oil filled starter , my mate told me to start it but i refused telling him it was going to explode ( 6th sence ) , so we got a fitter to start it and it did explode , throwing a 1.5 inch thick cast iron lid 20 ft into the air , set the fitters arm on fire with burning oil . He was ok though but if i would have switched it on the lid would have hit me in the face and took my head off due to me being taller than the fitter . so a 10 that day and normal day i would say 8 due to me loving the challenge of live work .

spookie

work with hot plastic, so there only burns to mainly worry about.

StephenC

it does, SHORT term. When someone fucks up who reckons he knows what he is doing then the backups of backups eventually fail. Jees, is it that hard to believe that someone died! All I know is that he ended up in the dock because of his actions that lost ALL power to the hospital and caused a death. When people arent prepared for something bad things happen.

fuzzy

mine has got to be a 10. im a paper clip counter for the mod. nasty sharp points you know.
im also laughing at those who reckon they have dangerous jobs when theres soldiers on here dodging bullets on a daily basis.

sbd16v

well them being reclassified as SSGN is news to me, and i was on the first SSN it fire tomahawks in anger H.M.S Turbulent

i know the yanks are classed as SSGN but i did not think we had changed the classification.

Psycho Warren

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God knows if its official or not, but the two fleet boats i was on had SSGN on the paperwork and i had to say "SSGN" for my TWS board Guess thats CO/XO perogative though!!

ballin

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I'll say

Smit

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I would say 9.5

Work with highly flammable toxic chemicals every single day. This including lead chromates and low flashpoint reactives. Have to wear the Correct PPE for the job at ALL times. This may include a full space suit with is air cooled system (think yellow suit micheal Fox wears in out of back to the future lol) I Have to have a COSHH assesment every 12 months and have to know the manufactor data sheet off by heart unless u cannot touch the product in question.

It can be very very difficult and genuinely hard.. But on a scale of 1-10 of enjoying my job i'd have to say 11. I love it!

c0ss1e9i6

It is official!

Lambchop

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i work in the congo now...sounds dodgy but all good so far

mozzy

mine is very dangerous, may only be a mobile security officer., but have had needles pulled on me, knives pulled on me, been resetting an alarm in a bank when armed raiders came in, had my van trashed by pikeys, some one attempted to throw bleach in mt face and nearly got caught shagging a fat bird once by work colleagued, that was dangerous lol

ace3444

lol, id give that a 10

gus

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well i would have to say 0 as health and safety will not allow me to do anything dangerous

im a scaffolder

i find working in accordance of these rules / guidlines makes it worse

i know what i can and cant do so would still rate it pretty low

fuzzy

arent you like all other scaffolders? they wear a harness several floors up but never attach them to anything whilst stripping the scaffold?
shagging a fat bird isnt dangerous. embarrasing and desperate but not dangerous.

gus

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if i could i wouldnt wear the thing at all

we didnt when we done city group and hsbc buildings at canary wharf
so if that didnt bother me then what will


i think its more dangerous when you use it properly

gus

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my harness has detachable lanyard so i leave that in the boot of the car anyway

BigChuck

just noticed ythis thread, my last job would have to get a 10,

basically it involves sticking explosives in a lathe and machining it so it fits into missile casings etc.

not a fun job, the slightest mistake and the whole lot goes bang,

fez2i16v

i take it you work at heysham p/s i hate going there you have to wait 1000 hours for a permit to turn a light on,lol

i fit shutters etc id say its a 6 carrying weight at hight can be tricky

gus

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now days i should think all jobs should have minimal danger involved

fuzzy

a little bit of danger keeps you on your toes.

.Ross.

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Aye very dangerous ... If you tangle with a haul truck its game over .. Night shift is the worst time to be in the pit or running the main haul roads.

Also grabbing 7200v will 99% of the time mean instant death.

Few people killed when I was working the North ... Squashed flat mainly buy haul trucks.

Good Video on U tube .. Westrac CAT demo a 793 rolling over a Pick-up truck. Not even loaded. Ran around with these trucks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfnK8uBPW7E

biggiejody

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not much here really, putting upto 145psi in a crane tyre or jacking up a trailer on a motorway.

had a few scary bum moments when lorrys have jumped off the jack etc but thats it

unless a wheel falls off when its driving, then whoever it hits are getting messed up

StephTell

VERY.

JTECH James

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id say mines quite dangerous

Dub604

At the minute im working in the mountains in B.C Canada, lots of snow, bears, wolves.... drivng a big truck with a shitty diff, and chains along narrow icy roads with steep sloaps and big sharp rocks at the bottom. 8.5/10 maybe.

.Ross.

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Dont forget Moose, Cougar Cats and Gun wielding Canadians.

Where abouts are you at?

turbolee

8 are 9 i work in a foundry the steel is melted at 1650 degree so if you get in the way of that say good bye to what ever it splashes on

ossie cossie

I work underground in the biggest (Copper / Gold Mine) in the southern hemisphere, working on high voltage elactrical equipment, which is quite dangerous but the bus ride to work is even more dangerous as sometimes we get shot at by local malisha, We have a military escort to and from site, The bus driver was shot just the other day (hit in the elbow and hip.) Thankfully i was not on that bus, the company now chopper us in and out when we go on R + R just to be safe. (Bless them) We often see the local army waling around camp with AK47 type guns over there sholder, or sticking out the window of a landcruiser. (for our protection)
But we will probably just die from food poisoning as the camp food is only just eddible. Also not able to drink the water (bottled water only) So all in all just getting home from work in its self is a big plus, that even before we have to work on the 13,800V HV switchgear, and bieng away from home for 2 months at a time. But as they say (thats why i get paid the big dollars)
PS. We have haul packs working here as well, about 100 of them, But we are OK as we have a long antenna with a red flag and light on the top.

Dub604

and drunk redneck canadians with guns.....


mostly ill be working in Whistler, and north of. my company has been contracted to do the perimeter fence for all of the olympic venues. 80,000' minimum in the whistler area.