4 Jun
2010
4 Jun
'10
1:54 p.m.
On 04/06/10 17:43, Andrew Burton wrote:
It's also possible that some idiot (or kids) would
plug in the ballast with
no tube at all! Maybe even stick some wire or something into it that
shouldn't be there.
Either way, I'm sure the HSE wouldn't like it
here in
the UK. As an employee, I am not allowed to change fuses at work or do
anything with our machines unless we have been trained by the appropriate
engineer first.
At a previous employer, we had a "Health and Safety Officer" who did
this, arranged for additional mains sockets to be added to desks, and so
forth. By default you'd get a 3A fuse fitted to a set of desk sockets,
even if you requested an 8-way socket with a 13A fuse. Plug in eight
set-top-boxes for a network test, hit the ON switch... and watch as the
whole desk loses power. This was his policy, even if the socket strip
was itself rated to 13A.
Order a fuse replacement, and you got another 3A. To get something more
sanely rated, you had to get approval from the Head of Engineering, your
Line Manager, and H&S Officer, and also provide a side of A4 explaining
why *exactly* you needed 13A of power. "Running networking tests which
requires 8 boxes" wasn't good enough -- he wanted an essay. That was
always fun...
In my current place-of-work, H&S and training seem to have gone by the
wayside. We've got a Fuji Frontier digital photo printer, and there's a
strict company policy that in order to do maintenance work on it, you
MUST have attended the Fujifilm training course and have the shiny
little certificate that says so. I wouldn't be surprised if this was
part of the service contract...
So anyway, there are a few problems with this:
1) The only two members of staff in our store who had done the Fuji
maintenance training... were made redundant (along with all the other
specialist Lab Supervisors and Lab Operators in the company).
2) The company will no longer pay for people to take the Fuji
training courses.
3) ... so now we have one-and-a-half people who can do the
maintenance work. That is, one person (me) who can do all of it, and one
who can handle the basic weekly maintenance.
You can probably guess what's happened to the weekly / monthly /
quarterly maintenance (and the yearly machine service for that matter).
Fun.
--
Phil.
classiccmp at philpem.me.uk
http://www.philpem.me.uk/