Re: Was there any disciplinary procedures in British R & TV factories?
Hi!
There are no written procedures and the only training was a brief chapter on Electrical Shocks from one of the public domain electronics theory books.
We have to provide all our hand tools except a soldering iron and a meter – the accident occured on Tuesday after the bench power had been switched off, and whilst packing away my tools to go (we had been warned that late departure would incur disciplinary proceedings due to c.v. precautions) I must have accidentally knocked my iron out if it's stand and it melted a hole in the lid of the isolated 110V socket at the back of the bench.
The damaged socket was immediately replaced by the shift manager and an electrically safety certified colleague and a replacement soldering iron issued to me. Nothing was said about the incident at the time it was noticed next morning.
I didn't realize this mishap had happened until next morning when I was shown it by the shift manager. He did acknowledge the power had been correctly turned off, so the mishap happened whilst the iron was cooling anyway.
No official guidance on how many or what tools we are to use is provided, each engineer uses their own personal ones!
(My previous employer had standard tool–kits with all tools laid in foam which were issued and returned for each shift, and soldering iron stands fixed to a safe place near the left hand bench edges, my current place has neither!).
Chris Williams
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Last edited by Chris55000; 1st May 2020 at 5:09 pm.
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