How dangerous is your job ??
31-10-2008, 08:13 PM
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How dangerous is your job ??
Ive been on a customers product awarness course (they are a large specialist chemical haulier) today and it reminded how dangerous my job is not just personally but as in how many people could be injured or killed if there was a accident in some way or form wether mechanical or human error !
How dangerous would you rate your job ?
1 being i might get a papercut once a year
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10 being there is a hole town or more could be seriously at risk of being wiped out.
Id rate mine at a 8.5
How dangerous would you rate your job ?
1 being i might get a papercut once a year
and
10 being there is a hole town or more could be seriously at risk of being wiped out.
Id rate mine at a 8.5
31-10-2008, 08:29 PM
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Hard to say really, I test at 50,000V but thats often safer than regular 240 as theres so many safety nets in place so to speak. Saying that though, we do alot of works for hospital electricity feeds and not me thank god but someone in the same game turned them off (by accident) whilst someone was on the slab who died because of it. Danger to me is about 7, what I could inflict on others is definatley a 9. Bit morbid for a friday night
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31-10-2008, 08:30 PM
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I'd rate mine at abou 6/7. Work on the Manchster Ship Canal, sure i/someon could fuck something up if a mistake was made. Lol.
You get a new job Kev?
You get a new job Kev?
31-10-2008, 08:33 PM
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id go for a ten for mine especially this time of year, in the last 2 years iv had a gun to my head twice, a work mate has been shot, (only in the leg) but other than that its not to bad.
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31-10-2008, 08:34 PM
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I class mine as 8.5 because daily im dealing with the mechanical side of commercial vehicles eg servicing and brakes etc so some personal risk and if i miss somethin coul easily cause a pile up on motorways and roads etc,
but also due to the chemicals they carry on weekly have to solve problems with fully loaded tankers carrying all sorts like pure chlorine, petrol, every strength of acid and alkalie's, ollum etc so if there was a leak or explosion would put hundreds of lives at risk !!
but also due to the chemicals they carry on weekly have to solve problems with fully loaded tankers carrying all sorts like pure chlorine, petrol, every strength of acid and alkalie's, ollum etc so if there was a leak or explosion would put hundreds of lives at risk !!
31-10-2008, 08:48 PM
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I'm a steel erector/shed builder. Been in some pretty hairy situations!
Working over slurry pits. Sheeting roofs at 80 feet plus.
Almost crushed my dad when I pushed a 1.5 ton concrete panel over towards him with a forklift, and he only had about a foot between that and the wall once it had fallen. Lucky he's as quick as he is, or he would have been in a bad way.
Working over slurry pits. Sheeting roofs at 80 feet plus.
Almost crushed my dad when I pushed a 1.5 ton concrete panel over towards him with a forklift, and he only had about a foot between that and the wall once it had fallen. Lucky he's as quick as he is, or he would have been in a bad way.
31-10-2008, 08:53 PM
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i work in a secure housing unit with young people who are autistic and some are very violent, we are trained in team teach and how to hold kids and young adults some times it can take up to 4 of us to hold one child that is kicking off!! iv been hit in the face a few times , gone to hospital twice once when i nearly had my finger bitten off, one of our lads is over 6 foot and over 16 stone!! he takes some calming down, the rest i cant talk about.. bit i can say its the best job ive ever had , you feel that you are doing some thing for these kids and its not all bad , i get payed to go to alton towers and see all the latest films and play psp,s all day and the pay is very good
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31-10-2008, 09:05 PM
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Looking at how people panic buy food when the supermarkets shut for 1 day at Xmas, and I deliver food I count my job as very dangerous, If i dont turn up then the whole country will PANNNNNNIIIIIIIICCCCCCCCC 
and you will all be doomed
and you will all be doomed
31-10-2008, 09:10 PM
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My job is very dangerous. I sell carparts, and with the amount of paper I handle in one day; It's bound to be one or two papercuts.
Nah, that'll be a 1 or a 2 for me
Nah, that'll be a 1 or a 2 for me
31-10-2008, 09:35 PM
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For me in my job would only be a 1, its the situations around me that i fear could occur as i work in a London college where we have the knife and gun happy little fookers attending. As staff we are suppose to "deal" with possible situations and alert security etc etc but my personal opinion is walk past it then tell security !
31-10-2008, 09:42 PM
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id class mine as a 9 as im a gas mixing techy.....i fill bottles with all sorts of nasty stuff, if i wasnt paying attention i could easily die, i was mixing cyanide in oxygen today, my bum was squeeking a bit!
Seen a 1.5ltr can break on the seal at 100bar, fly off and hit someone breaking there hip, when ur putting 1000psi in a little bottle and u hear it ping as it expands u wanna duck
Seen a 1.5ltr can break on the seal at 100bar, fly off and hit someone breaking there hip, when ur putting 1000psi in a little bottle and u hear it ping as it expands u wanna duck
31-10-2008, 10:17 PM
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Currently mine is about a 1, the highest risk is if i dehydrate from not getting to the kettle quick enough for a fresh cuppa while sat at home on a daily basis - or i could class it as a 10, from complete boredom and my brain could go crazy at any moment!!
but in reality, id say mine was up there around an 8 or 9 on an average day, but then dependant on how the work pans out there would certainly be days where id class mine as a smidgen over 10.
but in reality, id say mine was up there around an 8 or 9 on an average day, but then dependant on how the work pans out there would certainly be days where id class mine as a smidgen over 10.
31-10-2008, 10:22 PM
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Same as kelv really, in most danger when i need a cuppa and we ran out of milk!
Normal job is a chippy, so about 4/10. Slip with a chisel, saw, circ, table saw and lose a finger etc.... 0/10 at the minute, got no work
Normal job is a chippy, so about 4/10. Slip with a chisel, saw, circ, table saw and lose a finger etc.... 0/10 at the minute, got no work
31-10-2008, 10:42 PM
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in my contract as a Firefighter it actually says "we will risk our lives, in a highly calculated manner, to save lifes that can be saved". To be honest I've only felt scared and actually though "hey up, I could die here" 4 thimes in 6 years in the job so it's not all crawling through a ditch under a car to get to a casualty or commit to a persons reported housefire every day!
The thing is, even when you risk yourself it's such a rush that yeh, it's so worth it.
The thing is, even when you risk yourself it's such a rush that yeh, it's so worth it.
31-10-2008, 11:09 PM
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i dont know.
Im a pharmacy tech. Worst case scenario-i give the wrong drugs, the pharmacist doesnt see the error, patient takes it and dies!!! 10 for them then!! Chances are unlikely.
Danger to me-stabbing myself with a syringe containing cytotoxic drugs when making chemotherapy. Fairly dangerous but unlikely as they dont let u do it without sufficient training.
4/5 on average.
Im a pharmacy tech. Worst case scenario-i give the wrong drugs, the pharmacist doesnt see the error, patient takes it and dies!!! 10 for them then!! Chances are unlikely.
Danger to me-stabbing myself with a syringe containing cytotoxic drugs when making chemotherapy. Fairly dangerous but unlikely as they dont let u do it without sufficient training.
4/5 on average.
31-10-2008, 11:10 PM
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i dont know.
Im a pharmacy tech. Worst case scenario-i give the wrong drugs, the pharmacist doesnt see the error, patient takes it and dies!!! 10 for them then!! Chances are unlikely.
Danger to me-stabbing myself with a syringe containing cytotoxic drugs when making chemotherapy. Fairly dangerous but unlikely as they dont let u do it without sufficient training.
4/5 on average, although some people might say walking round a hospital was a 10 these days!
Im a pharmacy tech. Worst case scenario-i give the wrong drugs, the pharmacist doesnt see the error, patient takes it and dies!!! 10 for them then!! Chances are unlikely.
Danger to me-stabbing myself with a syringe containing cytotoxic drugs when making chemotherapy. Fairly dangerous but unlikely as they dont let u do it without sufficient training.
4/5 on average, although some people might say walking round a hospital was a 10 these days!
31-10-2008, 11:17 PM
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stopped doing theatre stuff due to the number of near misses - big heavy bits of set landing on top of people who've just managed to find a gap to hide in.....600kg of flooring crush a truck driver against a scenery roof apex.....fly-bars careering up to the (wooden) grid assisted by half a tonne of counter-weight after the brake fails... hmm!
31-10-2008, 11:20 PM
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How dangerous for other people or myself?
I work for a government run company doing IT support, and although it involves clicking a few buttons and plugging the right cables in, I was in a bit of a situation the other day
Went to one of our branches (homeless/druggysingle mums housing) and was waiting to be let through the security door
This guy who was waiting starts kicking off (I'm the same side the fence as him)
He was drinking some random stuff out a bottle, could smell it god knows what it was, and this was 8:30am of a morning.
Saw my shirt having the company logo on and starts havin a go why his lounge had been flooded cos someone broke in and whacked his taps on full
Damn, I was only there to reconfigure an Avaya IP phone
Hence since then I've got the code to the security door, I'm not hanging around in the waiting area with people sharing drugs and the like again
I work for a government run company doing IT support, and although it involves clicking a few buttons and plugging the right cables in, I was in a bit of a situation the other day
Went to one of our branches (homeless/druggysingle mums housing) and was waiting to be let through the security door
This guy who was waiting starts kicking off (I'm the same side the fence as him)
He was drinking some random stuff out a bottle, could smell it god knows what it was, and this was 8:30am of a morning.
Saw my shirt having the company logo on and starts havin a go why his lounge had been flooded cos someone broke in and whacked his taps on full
Damn, I was only there to reconfigure an Avaya IP phone
Hence since then I've got the code to the security door, I'm not hanging around in the waiting area with people sharing drugs and the like again
31-10-2008, 11:29 PM
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It's interesting reading all the above, in my opinion (and what would I know!lol) a lot of accidents happen, by accident. What I mean by that is when you are working in a risky environment you adopt a safe attitude to your work and apply the relevent safeguards to protect yourself. However, when you are relaxed, accidents happen, that's why it's called an accident.
Sea trawlermen for example are in my opinion in the worst and most dangerous job. long hours and a risky environment which results in a lot of danger. A risk assessment for a firefighter entering a serious housefire cant be passed as anything below a high risk as no matter what safeguards it's dangerous. However, due to a great deal of training and good Oic's you hardly ever hear of Firefighters dying as when you go in you're so switchhed on it's unreal.
Now, imagine working everyday on a building site, doing the same thing everyday and maybe working at height, that's where the accidents will happen when you least expect it.
Sea trawlermen for example are in my opinion in the worst and most dangerous job. long hours and a risky environment which results in a lot of danger. A risk assessment for a firefighter entering a serious housefire cant be passed as anything below a high risk as no matter what safeguards it's dangerous. However, due to a great deal of training and good Oic's you hardly ever hear of Firefighters dying as when you go in you're so switchhed on it's unreal.
Now, imagine working everyday on a building site, doing the same thing everyday and maybe working at height, that's where the accidents will happen when you least expect it.
31-10-2008, 11:30 PM
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how dangerous is my job?
Im a crane driver, not only am i required to work at a height, Im also responsible for lifting around 30tonne's of bundles of steel bars onto awaiting trailers and rail wagons....
If someone got under one of those and my crane fail........
I'd say a ten.....
Im a crane driver, not only am i required to work at a height, Im also responsible for lifting around 30tonne's of bundles of steel bars onto awaiting trailers and rail wagons....
If someone got under one of those and my crane fail........
I'd say a ten.....