Animal Premises and Stables

[jokar]

I have just checked and it is true, the animals have gone, perhaps they have bolted.  Issued without announcement, removed without announcement.  Is it 1984, the authors name was the same as the last PM so perhaps its true.

[kurnal]

Proves the means of escape was ok then after all.
Expect they will change the law now the horse has gone.
I thought 1984- and animal farm- were by George Orwell?

[devon4ever]

....and lets not forget the advice within guidance that says the provision of a fire alarm sounder may have an adverse affect on animals and cause them to panic - call me old fashioned but guess what fire and smoke in a stable does!!!  ooh arrr!

[Tom Sutton]

You have been suckered Kurnal his name was Eric Arthur Blair, George Orwell was his pen name.

[kurnal]

Hook line and sinker TW

[nearlythere]

Sorry to have to bring up the Dobbin and Bessie comic again but came across a little problem. Para 2 of 2.2 Manual Call Points says "Break-glass call points are not recommended for buildings containing animals; frangible call points should be used in all areas where animals are likely to be present".
Am I stupid (likely) or maybe it is the lateness of the day, but am I looking at a contradiction?

Can someone point me in the direction of something I can't see?

[slubberdegullion]

Possibly being equally stupid here but is it making a distinction between call points that actually have glass in them and those that have a scored piece of plastic which merely snaps and folds slightly when pressed?  I guess animals and broken glass don't mix.  Maybe.

Stu

[AnthonyB]

It is poorly described as a break glass call point is by it's very nature frangible.

I would agree they mean to refer to 'resettable' call points with a non glass element.

However, for nearly 30 years 'new', glass based call points have been laminated & scored glass that doesn't fracture - thats why they can be thumb operated (KAC being the main example).

Whoever wrote this is still in the old days of the old Gent & AFA Minerva call points with sheets of normal glass in them and a hammer & chain - I know  a lot are still around (mostly without the hammers as they were stolen years ago) though

[nearlythere]

I'm the sort who likes to have a reason for anything I ask for. If I inserted that paragraph into a report and they came back asking me to clarify it, I couldn't.
I go with the dangers of broken glass and animals. Would have thought that broken glass could be dangerous to humans too.