I’ve stolen this idea from Young Masher. I am shameless. And lacking apology.
So anyway.
I’ve had a huge amount of health & safety training, since I started my new job.
My employer is hot on health and safety.
As in engineering health & safety.
At a senior management away day, recently, we looked at H&S snapshot indicators, as well as looking at predictive indicators.
I loved the science behind the predictive indicators.
‘Ladies and Gentlemen, our next incident is probably going to happen here’
*taps map on the wall*
‘And here’s what we’re going to do about it’
OK, so it didn’t quite happen that way.
But it could have.
The thing is, or so I’m told, engineers are globally pretty rubbish at predicting safety failures.
They’re the guys who say ‘I didn’t expect that to happen!’
In my health & safety training we have been told the big details about them all.
- Flixborough, North Lincolnshire
- Freetown Sierra Leone
- Texas City, Texas
- Humber Estuary, Killingholme
- Carson City, California
- Piper Alpha, North Sea
- Buncefield, Hertfordshire
So I thought I’d share a couple of photos, of the latter.
These were taken less than 48 hours after the Buncefield explosion.
In the car park.
Where I was supposed to be parking my car.
Two days after the bang.
Food for thought, huh?
Ah yes, Buncefield. I rmember it well, as the explosion woke me. I ignored it and went straight back to sleep!
But our offices had to be extensively renovated and so we worked out of a Portacabin in the car park. For a year.
When I went into the offices to have a look round, it was a mess, and we weren’t even in a direct line with the blast.
It’s damn lucky that it happened when it did, else there would have been many deaths and casualties, I’m sure.
I’m full of awes for a guy who can have a big bang and then fall straight back to sleep afterwards, young Masher.
Good God that’s horrendous.
Anyway, hello, I’m Juliette AKA, Jules – Mashers mate. I only came here because you said Channing was your cousin and i’m fickle like that. You better not be lying…;)
Hello Jules. Welcome. I’ll drop Channing a Skype to let him know you’re in the area.