Safety at Street Works

[David Humphries]

liking use of ped barrier under tree, was it to stop brash/wood bouncing into road?

 

Good spot

 

Only needed 5, and then just moved them along to where we needed them as a secondary back up.

 

Cord, timber & brash was being dropped into the gate area on to Type 1 which absorbed most of the impact. The barriers caught a couple of odd stragglers.

 

 

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[cl3525]

Somtimes think when doing these jobs that we should leave the signs and warnings and allow natural selection to take place.

[mendiplogs]

Until someone sues for tripping on a hazard

 

 

 

We had 5 on the ground yesterday, one person at each end.

One lady was prepared to walk her and her toddler out on to the road

 

 

 

Why thank you kind sir.

But surely you must be mistaken.

There must be more than just one thing missing

 

 

 

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HI MATE well that can you do then mate there just mad :001_rolleyes:jon

[Gary Prentice]

Somtimes think when doing these jobs that we should leave the signs and warnings and allow natural selection to take place.

 

Wouldn't that be nice:lol::lol:

[TGB]

Signs and information boards in general - people see and read what they want to see and read. If it doesn't suit their immediate thought pattern, they mentally adjust the presented information and or signage to justify their intended actions.

 

For those people who can connect more than two brain cells at once, signage is just a gentle nudge into the correct action/s. For the, "But the dog knows this way." and "I have every right to walk through here." kind of people, no amount of signage and or information boards, are ever going to divert them from their chosen path.

 

Last year I was watching the reduction on a big tree after it had been struck by lightning some days earlier. I was well outside the cordoned area and able to observe both the work and surrounding paths. (I had nothing to do with operations. Just an interested person walking around the park on that day.) I spied a mother with very young child, who ducked under a barrier, passed a running chipper, (taking care to briefly lift the child to let her see inside), pass through the drop zone and on between groundies with chainsaws or dragging brash. Work soon went to a complete stop. After the initial yells, not a word was spoken. I'm sure not one of the crew had any idea why this person could be that much of an idiot.

 

The mother turned and waved to them all, just before ducking under another barrier and leaving the cordoned area. I think it was only me who witnessed the chipper incident. (I was too far away to verbally warn either crew or the mother of the impending doom.)

Edited March 22, 2013 by TGB

[TGB]

There has been many a time, when I've watched people reading a sign, talk among themselves and agree to ignore what they've just read. Catching up with them, I or one of my colleagues has asked after their chosen actions and location, only to be told they didn't read the sign or that there wasn't a sign. Leading them back to where they were allowed to be and showing then the same sign/s. I've even been accused of affixing the sign/s after they'd passed.

 

Some people are stupid, some are idiots, some are right nerks, some are just belligerent and some are all those with whistles & bells. And in my time, I've dealt with all.