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Appratently the TUC want a legal maximum for workplace temperature. Surely this is really a law for the installation of air conditioning?

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I have finished my NEBOSH course now. Well, the learning, the exam is on Friday.

One of our lecturers/tutors has done a bit of work in the brewery industry (nice work if you can get it… although apparently they only ever offered him tea and coffee) which leads to a strong suggestion that one should not drink beer from the bottle. Bottles of beer are stored in cellars and out houses and places like that. Its not unreasonable to say that a number of these will be visited by rats, and rats like to pee.

Leptospirosis is spread by rat pee.

So, his choice is to always ask either for a glass, or a straw.

Mind you, who would drink softies out of the can either?

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I watched a video on Thursday about using fire extinguishers. I suspect I might be unique in the class, in that I have discharged fire extinguishers in the past – and when doing this with CO2 extinguishers, I am sure we were told to hold the trigger (obviously) NOT THE HORN (obviously) and give support using a hand on the bottom of the fire extinguisher.

The video said not to hold on to the base.

My fellow students of Health and Safety suggested that this was because the extinguisher would get cold, and you don’t want your hand to stick to it but the video said to “support” the extinguisher by placing ones palm against the extinguisher about halfway down the cylinder.

Any ideas what’s going on here anyone?

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