Yes Paul is spot on. As for our job being "Dangerous" and getting "Danger Money" i think i may have mentioned this before (possible dig at me perhaps?)
The thing is that our job IS dangerous or hazardous if you prefer and it is our skill that stops us from being killed or injured. I think my point about danger money in another thread was more tongue in cheek than anything else but it is valid. Do you think we get paid enough for our skill? I certainly dont think we get what we are due and the danger money was just a way to try and bump up our price. Anyway thats not what this thread was about, it was about injuries.
I think the most valid point Paul mentioned was about training but how can you train someone how to do something that takes years of experience to do in the safest and most economical way. Simple answer is you cant. What can be done is to train people as best as possible and make sure they understand simple things like exactly where tensions and compressions are, how important it is to have a stable work position, an understanding of where the hazards are and how to avoid them etc etc. My point before about people i have seen working is that they have no clue where the danger is and to me this is why we need to make sure they DONT pass chainsaw tickets unless they can show a degree of common sense, which automatically points you in the direction of seeing hazards and avoiding them.
I see AA Teccie's point in the accident book and all the other guff that goes with H&S but it is more useful to the robots than anyone else IMO. We have our PPE, we have our chainsaw tickets, we have a brain so let us get on with it.
I worked with a guy that was very appreciative of advice that i gave and the best way to do this and that blah blah which sometimes he listened and sometimes he didnt. The times he didnt and something went wrong he explained to me that he prefers to make his own mistakes because that way he learns better. Now that to me sums it up perfectly. I read an accident book once and i just pissed myself laughing at some of the stupidity in it, i learned nothing from it except there is more stupidity in the world than i thought.
Anyway i am going on a bit again:blushing:
Before i go AA Teccie i am getting on a bit in arborist terms and i do have aches and pains from a physical job but i regret nothing. My working life has been full of excitement and wonderful things and i learn more every day, including the fact that i am more dangerous with a silky in my left hand than with the right. So to avoid cutting myself more i use my right as a preference and the left is used only when cutting full stretch, or is helping the right:001_rolleyes: