Crew Evacuated from International Space Station

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Just saw that headline from Sky on twitter [news item link below] My first reaction was 'how the hell do you evacuate a space station?', close followed by the image of them all hanging around outside, in space suits, drinking coffee, a couple of them sneaking a ciggie and all moaning about how cold it is, whilst waiting for a passing fire engine ship to do safety checks :lol:

http://news.sky.com/story/1407687/crew-evacuated-from-international-space-station
 
Yv said:
Just saw that headline from Sky on twitter [news item link below] My first reaction was 'how the hell do you evacuate a space station?', close followed by the image of them all hanging around outside, in space suits, drinking coffee, a couple of them sneaking a ciggie and all moaning about how cold it is, whilst waiting for a passing fire engine ship to do safety checks :LOL:

http://news.sky.com/story/1407687/crew-evacuated-from-international-space-station
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Thats pretty much exactly what I pictured when I saw the title of the thread :D
 
neil_g said:
Me too :D

I got a shoeing for taking my coffee out once. Aparently it's a h&s issue :rolleyes:
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What isnt these days. Pathetic. I kid you not we've got signs here above the hot taps in the loos saying "Warning - Hot water". The mind really does boggle.
 
neil_g said:
I got a shoeing for taking my coffee out once. Aparently it's a h&s issue :rolleyes:
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The only person I've ever bo*****ed during a fire drill was the MD who decided he had better things to do. He got a drubbing from Group MD the following month because the roll call sheet was next to the staff entrance and had "FAILED TO EVACUATE" neatly inked against his name. And it was a new sheet, good for another four drills. I've never had a boss pressure me to run extra drills before or since, but I was adamant that sheet was staying up until it was full.
 
Alastair said:
The only person I've ever bo*****ed during a fire drill was the MD who decided he had better things to do. He got a drubbing from Group MD the following month because the roll call sheet was next to the staff entrance and had "FAILED TO EVACUATE" neatly inked against his name. And it was a new sheet, good for another four drills. I've never had a boss pressure me to run extra drills before or since, but I was adamant that sheet was staying up until it was full.
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Reminds me of a real fire, many years ago, in a furniture factory - not a good place to have a fire.
These guys were generally good when the sirens went off, they knew better than to hang around, but there always has to be one joker...

This guy had gone into the toilet, probably for a smoke, he had locked himself into the cubicle and ignored the alarm. This caused a major panic as there was a man unaccounted for in the roll call, so a couple of firemen went and got him. One of them kicked down the toilet door, the man refused to leave so the other one hit him hard and carried him out on his shoulder:)
 
had a similar one Alastair, used to be the office "fire/ammonia alarm person" at a large icecream plant. Worked in a open plan office with the Finance Director and a couple of others. Alarm went off, everyone else got up and started to leave. FD sat there. I tapped him on his shoulder and informed him he had 2 choices - either to walk out or to leave in a firemans carry over my shoulder... He didn't move fast enough, and ended up making a rather undignified exit over my shoulder with me kicking the fire-doors open... Got something of a round of applause for that one ;)

(it was the Ammonia Alarm that went off, and if there was anyone missing on the list, I had the lovely job of putting on breathing aparatus and checking "my area", so it was a bit of a no brainer really)
 
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Sounds like the FD was a no-brainer too!
 
neil_g said:
Me too :D

I got a shoeing for taking my coffee out once. Aparently it's a h&s issue :rolleyes:
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The only time I've ever been involved in a real fire evacuation was at a hotel in London

It was 1am when the alarm went off, my wife left me for dead and legged it downstairs with the kids.

I made it down 5 minutes or so later, we all had to stand outside until the fire brigade declared it safe

It was at this point I noticed all the women with kids had just ran out in what they had on which wasn't very much, I'd never seen so many erect nipples in my life, it was freezing.

Turned out the fire was a couple that we're having a romantic encounter in the bathroom where they'd lit 20 tea lights and set the alarm off.

The one thing I took away from it was always ask for a room on a low floor, the stairs were visible from the lobby through a glass wall , it took a good 15 minutes for everybody to get out
 
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neil_g said:
Me too :D

I got a shoeing for taking my coffee out once. Aparently it's a h&s issue :rolleyes:
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I had a similar thing a while ago. Well, I actually wanted to take my pint of Heineken with me from Wetherspoons in Heathrow's terminal 1 when it was evacuated because of a bomb threat. Policeman with a big rifle in his hand was less than amused!

Then again, I was also less than amused. It was a bomb threat and they kept us all in the middle of the terminal, I can think of few greater H&S risks than being in the same building as a bomb...
 
Depends where the threatened bomb (or suspect device) was, I suppose.
 
they'll have escape pods , for the last survivor to use after they've blown the alien out of the airlock ... i saw the 'documentary' (sigourney weaver in her prime, hmmm mmmm)
 
All these remiscences put me in mind of the bomb scare at the major teaching hospital I worked in the 70's the phone call claimed "it" was in the department I worked in. After we had been standing around outside for an hour, the police said they could find nothing......but as the department had items that they were so unfamiliar with they could not identify 100% if all was as shoild be!! If I recall we the staff took a kind of vote and decided we should return and get on with our jobs, all the while being vigilent for anything out of place.
 
neil_g said:
I got a shoeing for taking my coffee out once. Aparently it's a h&s issue
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I was once told off for picking up my coat on the way out during a fire drill. I was told "you wouldn't do that if it was a real fire" to which my response was "yes I would and how would I know if it was real or a test?".

DorsetDude said:
What isnt these days.
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Most things. Health and Safety is used as an excuse to stop things. The reality is that it's nothing to do with health and safety and it's more likely to be management wanting to take absolutely no risks, no matter how small.

Check out the Health and Safety Executive's Myth of the Month and Mythbusters web pages.


Steve.
 
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The coffee is actually a h&s issue, I don't know your workplace but I can imagine a workplace where there are a hundred staff filling down a staircase and the last thing you want is someone spilling a cup of coffee and people going ar*e over tit down the stairs.

But as Steve says, most of the time h&s is used as a smokescreen to hide other motivations and general ignorance. The myth busters panel is very good at picking apart situations put to them.
 
Alastair said:
But as Steve says, most of the time h&s is used as a smokescreen to hide other motivations and general ignorance. The myth busters panel is very good at picking apart situations put to them.
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The most famous case is the one about the school which banned playing conkers on h & s grounds. In reality, that was perpetuated by The Daily Mail.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/myth/top10myths.htm


Steve.
 
I prefer the Bury St Edmund's hanging baskets.. bloody lethal they were, death toll in the thousands until the council stepped in and banned them on h&s grounds.. ..


(or maybe it was just to much hassle to send a man round with a stepladder and check the brackets were in good condition at the start of the season.. .. and the countdown to someone talking b'ks about ladders and h&s .. 5, 4, .. .. )
 
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