Sheer Genius OT....OSHA FAILS

[eagle19952]

[Hard Headed Ken]

On the cutting edge.

[CrabbyMilton]

Yeah the train will just stop and go slowly over that. But hey, if they need a water supply, that may have been the only option. I would imagine that they notified and obtained permission from the railroad but maybe not. Where is this?

[eagle19952]

Where is this?

The internet 

[CrabbyMilton]

I guess I walked into that one. I just forwarded that to the Chicago area fire apparatus board that I visit so I just thought there was a specific location.

[Jon]

I don't even believe that is in the US

[eagle19952]

[CrabbyMilton]

Those are priceless. The goofs in the pool must like their music and/or are so plastered that they couldn't put the thing outside the pool.

[HB of CJ]

Great pictures and thank you.  I got a good laugh ... which I need right now.  Thank you.  I for one think that fire apparatus picture with the train track MIGHT be in jolly old England?

Judging from the size of the rails, the shin e ness of the rail tops, the hose size, the fire apparatus type and RR crossing warning arm type and format.  Maybe Europe some place?

Some help please.  Canada?  Been too long.  Also great comments.  Yikes ... the cutting edge of smartness.  Very funny AND sobering.    HB of CJ (old coot)   Hoo ... hoo!  Ding ding!

[Oonrahnjay]

Those are priceless.

    Yep, and how's this?  If you're going to drive a forest-fire fighting bulldozer working a fire line, OSHA says that you have to have proper heavy-duty, steep-toed, protective boots, right?  Yeah, that's logical.  And if you're a crewman, walking along the fire line, setting "back fires", watching the fire lines, keeping up with windshifts, helping direct the bulldozers, etc., OSHA says you have to wear high, flame-and-temperature-resistant boots.  OK, that's logical, too.  But what do you do when the bulldozer driver has to get off the bulldozer to check the plow, or straighten out the control cables, or check to see if the tracks are sinking too deep in mud?  That's easy, right -- he just does it.  Well, no, it's not that easy since no boot manufacturer makes a boot that meets OSHA steel-toe industrial safety equipment standards AND is certified as fire and flame retardant.  And you have to work out a way for the driver to take care of the equipment and assure safety from the ground viewpoint.  So, how about this.  The bulldozer driver is issued a set of the heavy protective boots and ALSO a set of the fire-resistant boots; when he starts off driving he must be wearing the protective boots and he must be carrying the fire-proof boots in the tractor cab with him.  And when he needs to get down from the tractor, he takes off the steel-toe boots and puts on the fire-proof boots.  Easy problem solved, right?  It's that easy.
    In truth, the OSHA inspectors never ask the drivers to get down to talk to them, and if the driver has to get off the bulldozer, the OSHA guys just turn their head and look away -- also, *showing* that the fireproof boots are available is enough to satisfy the inspectors.  But WTF???   Is this our tax dollars at work?

[Iceni John]

No, definitely no England!   If it were, there would be ten Health & Safety wonks in Hi-Vis jackets standing around and giving each other interminable safety briefings etc etc.   I'm thinking it's somewhere continental European  -  the houses look Eastern European, maybe?

Nah, I'll blame it on the French  -  they're always good for a laugh . . .

John, born on the correct side of the English Channel.

[Jeremy]

From: http://www.statter911.com/2014/05/03/remember-hose-railroad-track-picture-now-rest-story/


Remember the hose over the railroad track picture? Now the rest of the story



A few weeks back we posted the picture above to our Facebook page. It had just begun to circulate around the web. While it provided a nice laugh and I, like most of you, was certain it was a hoax, I knew nothing of the origin of the image. Now we have some answers courtesy of Marcus Wong from the site Waking up in Geelong.
Wong describes himself as a "train nut, amateur photographer, and software developer" from Melbourne, Austrailia.
About two weeks after the initial April 5 posting of the image on Facebook, Wong was able to track down details. The picture came from Tom Bongaerts, a firefighter in the small town of Bornem in Belgium. Wong, who unlike the editor of this rag, actually does a little research, found a follow-up post to the Facebook page of FireRescue1.com from Bongaerts (again, something I totally missed) that explains the mischief behind the picture:

Hey, this past week our funny photo went viral throughout the whole world. Thousands of shares and likes in many different countries! Once and for all: the picture was taken in Belgium, in a small village called Bornem. After a minor intervention, we had some time left near the railway to make this picture. Since there were no trains running at all for a week due to maintenance works, we can state that our joke was a real success! Thanks to our entire team, 2nd sqdn Firefighters Bornem!

You have to love the sense of humor of the Bornem firefighters to do something like that.

[gumpy]

The internet 

LOL!  That's the funniest thing I've seen in awhile!

[Boomer]

In looking and laughing at these photos it struck me.....obumma wants more immigrants in this country??

[digesterman]

Part of the dumbing down process