Snowball wrote:
It's coming to that time of the year again when stories like 'THIS'
(http://www.diyplace.co.uk/blog/) are becoming more common.

It's too cold to run back to the van to get your protection and it's
too cold to cold to do anything about it and it's JUST TOO COLD!

Well... safety in DIY is paramount... the traders should know this so
it's their fault if they loose limbs and what not but the DIY are less
aware due to us not really seing too many things go wrong.

Enough said: I just thought as a new commer to the forum i'd try my
best to make people aware about the importance of H&S.

I nearly lost a butty once due to me falling off a couple of buckets I
was trying to sit on and we wouldn't want that to happen to anybody!

People will now rush out and buy direct vented goggles, and some will
still wind up in hospital. Indirect vented are needed with dangle
grinders.


Next thing ya know these tools will be illegal. To use one you'll have
to pay £500 for a 4 week long training course run by some slightly
clueful 17 yr old who'll try and teach you what you realised was
inaccurate and inadequate 15 years ago. Then you'll need to buy your
license card, which contains all sorts of inappropriate data, and
enables you to buy 1 angle grinder per year after more exhaustive
checks and form filling. For which you pay of course.

The popularity of dangle grinders will drop dramatically due to the ban
on retail sales, so the prices will go up to above where they were 15
years ago.

Admittedly all this could have been avoided by mandating the sale of 1
pair of indirect vent goggles with every retailed grinder, but who
cares if the average Jo is fleeced and our national productivity goes
down the plughole in one area after another.

Think I'm kidding? I am now, but trust me, it will happen. Your basic
freedoms will be whittled away to the point that you become fully
dependant in every area, and you will be thus fleeced into poverty, and
prosecuted for making your house better or safer.


NT