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Offline jokar

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« Reply #15 on: July 27, 2007, 06:23:56 PM »
Perhaps, the Fire Officer takes his calculator with him to adder things up.

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« Reply #16 on: July 27, 2007, 08:49:00 PM »
I won't be rattled by the scale of these comments slithering towards a poisonous conclusion.

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« Reply #17 on: July 27, 2007, 09:23:48 PM »
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Dangerous animals must be licensed with the Local Authority. Expect a further vist from another jobsworth checking on your license for the snake.
there is an obvious gag in this but i'm not going to go there as i am a mature adult.

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« Reply #18 on: July 29, 2007, 06:15:37 PM »
If someone keeps a pet in their car it is a car pet. We are at last back to the original subject.

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« Reply #19 on: July 29, 2007, 10:06:58 PM »
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If someone keeps a pet in their car it is a car pet. We are at last back to the original subject.
Big T will be happy. It seems hisss original post was being taken as a load of old cobras.

Offline Ken Taylor

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« Reply #20 on: July 29, 2007, 11:43:58 PM »
I can recall a London Borough housing department telling tenants of a block of flats to remove all the obstructions from communal balconies providing the only MoE. This included an assortment of doormats, planters, rubbish bins, etc.

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« Reply #21 on: July 30, 2007, 08:53:41 AM »
That sounds about right. I realy don't see the problem with a couple of planters and a doormat outside their front door. It is their home after all, and these people crave personalising their own space.

I appreciate that it could be construed as an obstruction on an MOE but surely within reason it can be tolerated?

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« Reply #22 on: July 30, 2007, 10:34:01 AM »
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Trip hazard on an escape route?
This was actually a flippant remark (as were the previous replies). If I really felt that doormats should be removed in case someone tripped over it causing others to be trapped inside a burning flat, I really would be in line for a jobsworth award. Not only that but Jokar and PhilB would never speak to me again.

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« Reply #23 on: July 30, 2007, 11:25:44 AM »
I still think its a serious problem. Whilst the members here aren't the jobsworths, the ones out there turning up at our premises are.

How can we do our jobs properly when we are told that pot plants and door matts are hazards. We know full well they aren't but when the brigade are insisting they are, what do you do?

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« Reply #24 on: July 30, 2007, 11:38:54 AM »
They might not like it.  But if you have assessed the risk, what can they do about it?

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« Reply #25 on: July 30, 2007, 12:14:13 PM »
The problem is that many operational Ffs don’t have a clue about basic fire safety and fire prevention.  About five years ago, during a 11D visit, a watch commander told me to have all of the pot plants in a large pharmaceutical research site removed from the offices as the sap in the plants was potentially flammable. He really wasn’t joking either, even wrote to me about it. I didn’t have the heart to tell him about the thousands of gallons of solvents we used on a daily basis.

Offline Big T

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« Reply #26 on: July 30, 2007, 12:37:42 PM »
All those pot plants: I'm surprised they didn't shut you down.

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« Reply #27 on: July 30, 2007, 01:35:12 PM »
Have I got this right, Fred keeps a car pet in his car and uses it as a winsdscreen viper? And doormats are no longer a dormant problem? Ok Got that, off worrying about doormats and vipers, potty plants and all those really pressing fire safety issues I had inadvetently missed.

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« Reply #28 on: July 30, 2007, 02:25:31 PM »
I think I would have refused point blank to remove the door mats until the IO couild show me where it says that floor linings should be class "0" surface spread of flam, or that mats could be a trip hazard, or any sensible reason that warrants their removal. And thats me speaking as an IO myself.
It is pratts like this what gives the rest of us such bad press.
I wonder if the IO's boss knows what he/she is up to. It might surprise you to learn that a lot of Safety Officer's work is not checked or monitored.

May I take this opportunity to apologise most sincerely, on behalf of the IOs of the UK, to the victims of the IO pratts in our ranks.
Very shortly I will be in a position to provide a consultation service to help the victims of overzealous (read stupid) IOs.
We're not Brazil we're Northern Ireland.

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« Reply #29 on: July 30, 2007, 02:33:50 PM »
Reassuring to say the least. You will be busy with them. I certainly am. haha.

Perhaps an IO prat badge could be created? Nominations from the people in industry?

I get a lot of correspondance from excellent IO's but in all fairness the good stuff goes to the bottom of the pile when we have to justify mats and pot plants to the jobsworth officers.

I hasten to add they didn't mention the laundry without a self closer on it. Frightening.