3:39 don't share pics of your tools or van 8:28 Send us pics of your kit and van.
@efixx2 ай бұрын
Yur, that thought did cross my mind as I was recording... 😬
@GuyChapmanАй бұрын
@@MakeItWithJim I was a bit slow liking this, I had to go and get my Megger in from the van first.
@MakeItWithJimАй бұрын
@@GuyChapman Can you send a picture?!
@icetmad012 ай бұрын
A lot of comments here based in ignorance. I worked for Openreach until recently and without working for them you wouldn't understand the pressures placed on engineers to get the job done. This particular job had been sent back multiple times by different engineers about the difficulties of the job but management kept repinning the job to engineers without any changes to the job or addressing the issues. It's very easy to say the engineer should have done a risk assessment but at the end of the day if you were there you might have come to the same conclusion as he did and who in this world can honestly say they've never chanced it.
@Del1ng2 ай бұрын
Ex BT also, your comment is 100% accurate, unfortunately targets being met at any cost is more important than health and safety. Full and proper training for engineers / new recruits drastically reduced compared to the past. A sad loss to life never the less
@blow0me2 ай бұрын
No, there is no excuse for you yourself behaving in a dangerous manner. Everyone has personal responsibility, and largely common sense dictates what is sensible or not. The same way you wouldn't jump off a cliff, or in front of a bus, etc etc. Well most people, but there are those who walk among us. Well, until they don't. Sad, but true. What this means for Openreach or other employers, is they need to be able to sack people more easily if they're prone to doing stupid stuff. They are clearly a huge liability.
@blow0me2 ай бұрын
@@Del1ng Do you need training to tell you not to jump in a river ?
@kathrynwhitby97992 ай бұрын
the biggest issue is the 'automated' job handling, many times I (CSE then Frames) and other engineers have sent jobs back with copious notes, only to find on getting the job back (again) that those notes are missing, and can only be seen by accessing CSS.
@blow0me2 ай бұрын
@@kathrynwhitby9799 but you don't need notes to tell you to not go into rivers
@malteseowl2 ай бұрын
Sympathy to his family - but do not people realise that when these big companies are fined, it simply means that the consumer will end up paying. The Directors should be the ones fined, not the company. Anonymous fines do not do anything for anyone -= fine people, not anonymous unnamed groups.
@ambiencelectronica2 ай бұрын
Common sense isn’t so common neither.
@georgedeaney72702 ай бұрын
Re Openreach and the guilty verdict. Did the engineer perform a risk assessment before he used a hammer to throw a line across a fast flowing river.? Every day in life, most of perform a risk assessment either in a working environment or crossing the road. Whilst lack of training had a bearing on the engineer working beside water and the risks involved, I don't think Openreach should be 100% guilty.
@deang56222 ай бұрын
He wasn't an engineer. He was a technician. An engineer wouldn't do anything so silly. At the end of the day, people have to apply commonsense and consider the risks involved and not do stupid or dangerous things.
@cag92842 ай бұрын
Yes common sense.. indeed, applies to all of us...even the engineers ...
@chandreshvarsani21902 ай бұрын
Where was the common sense from the engineer and colleagues to call their supervisor for further advise and should not have even attempted a repair if they don't have a risk assessment or even training on suspending cables over water🤷♂🤷♂🤷♂🤷♂
@robertburrows66122 ай бұрын
The law requires a company trained Health and safety officer carry out a risk assessment before and work is carried. The technician was not trained in health and safety.
@deang56222 ай бұрын
@@robertburrows6612 Commonsense says he should know a river in flood and fast flowing is dangerous. I have had zero training in Health and Safety but even I know that.
@Mike_52 ай бұрын
Openreach have reduced the suitable essential training for Technicians working in the field under pressure from BT Group to cut costs and speed up delivery to the point where there is a very significant Health & Safety risk and should be heavily fined for every single instance like this
@Del1ng2 ай бұрын
100% accurate.. Meeting targets at any cost is to the fore, the engineers deserve better support from their management however saw the rapid decline in that over the years.
@blow0me2 ай бұрын
What training do you need to tell you not to go in rivers ? That's like training not to jump off the roof of a building.
@Mike_52 ай бұрын
@@Del1ng very good point about the management as some teams have a new Field Manager now every few months not good
@deang56222 ай бұрын
If you don't realise a fast flowing river which is in flood, with higher than usual level, is dangerous, then you were not mature enough to leave secondary school. Blunt, but accurate.
@blow0me2 ай бұрын
Not secondary school, primary school.
@ElliottHurst2 ай бұрын
This is a pretty blunt and heartless thing to say. If you are to suggest you have never taken a calculated risk at work then, you may as well go home.
@blow0me2 ай бұрын
@@ElliottHurst It's a simple truth.
@deang56222 ай бұрын
@@ElliottHurst Wrong. You consider it heartless because somebody died. But the fact is, I don't believe there is an adult alive that doesn't realise that fast flowing water is dangerous, and I don't believe that any adult when in close proximity to fast using water doesn't have reservations about doing what they are doing. If they have reservations then that means they are aware of the danger. The mistake you are making is linking my post about common sense to the fact someone died. You need to separate the two. You can't address the problem if you try to silence any reasonable debate on the matter by claiming it is heartless Openreach is being criticised because they did not provide training. However, you, I and everyone else knows, that commonsense is relevant here. What is commonsense? The dictionary defines it as: _the basic level of practical knowledge and judgement we all need to help us live in a reasonable and safe way_ . Isn't that exactly what we are talking about here? I think it is. Training can only go so far. Openreach technicians, in the course of their jobs, will encounter all manner of different scenarios, a very large number of different scenarios. Just think where the telecomma cables run. Across rivers, through ditches, up mountains, by the side of roads, across railway lines, underground, over ground and on and on. Weather conditions vary massively from a normal summers day, to blistering heat at 38°C, to winter, sub zero temperatures, ice, snow, rain, fog, even thunderstorms pose a risk. Training can cover some scenarios but it can't cover everything. Commonsense has an important part to play.
@PenumbraeMCMLXXVIII2 ай бұрын
Nonsense. You talk completely out of ignorance. Just add more insult to injury.
@tonywatson14122 ай бұрын
Common sense ...im afraid _ some people need to be told ....dont put your hand in a fire. ...or they,ll do it ,,ffs use your brains
@geraldhutchings84792 ай бұрын
You can't fix stupid......
@DilipDas2 ай бұрын
Kawabunga and Motzarella Really stuck out like a sore thumb that.
@Dog-whisperer74942 ай бұрын
Great news weekly as always Joe. Condolences to the o pen reach engineers family and friends. All these deaths in the industry seem to be getting more frequent . Sad times indeed .
@alanjewell95502 ай бұрын
I don't think these kind of incidents are becoming more common. In years gone by, incidents like this would have just been seen as unfortunate accidents, & an occupational hazard that comes with the job. The H&S landscape has changed out of all recognition in the last few decades, making incidents like this quite rare.
@Dog-whisperer74942 ай бұрын
@@alanjewell9550well this is the third in as many weeks that Joe has reported on. And there has a few over the past year. So yes I think they becoming more frequent.
@blow0me2 ай бұрын
@@Dog-whisperer7494 No, you're just hearing about them more. It's a busier world, with more information available. Even more reason though that such incidents should be fewer, but sadly common sense and self preservation is just a thing of the past.
@hgbugalou2 ай бұрын
Boy that first death sounds awful. That guy should have never been in such a wild and dangerous situation. Someone taking such a risk only shows the pressure the company puts on workers.
@neilblack5924Ай бұрын
on the subject of over loaded vans....... it is much cheaper to do so than using say a 4.5GVW van with 6 or 8 weekly checks, taco and driving cards. or look at it this way £300 fine, if you get caught say every 10 years then its £30 a year you do the maths.
@PaulSmithies-yz1nu2 ай бұрын
Kawabunga and Mozzarella
@simonyapp2 ай бұрын
Hope the family get the £ but still dreadful. Sorry to hear this.
@gmbs3602 ай бұрын
'Cowabunga' and 'mozzarella'. Surely...
@MarcusNailor2 ай бұрын
Kawabunga and mozzarella
@TheChipmunk20082 ай бұрын
Joe, one question... who challenges you with these words? is it gaz
@efixx2 ай бұрын
No, it's usually our scriptwriter Ray, sometimes I'll challenge myself with a word if I don't like the one I've been given for some reason.
@TheChipmunk20082 ай бұрын
@@efixx wait this is scripted? ooo while i have your attention... I sent this to SWA... Your armoured cable glands come with a banjo (earthing tag). A fellow electrician and i have been having a heated discussion about whether such tags are needed on a threaded cable entry to a galvanised round conduit box (AKA besa box) which comes with an earth terminal. I see no way of using one without compromising the IP rating of the enclosure. I hope you can clarify for me Kindest reagrds, Martin
@efixx2 ай бұрын
I think I know the answer. What did they come back with? 🤔
@TheChipmunk20082 ай бұрын
@@efixx They haven't got back to me :(
@Webbster772 ай бұрын
Mozzarella and jam
@geraldpadfield4902 ай бұрын
Karabunga and mozzarella
@stonegrundy1232 ай бұрын
Cwabunga mozzarella
@ted5hhh12412 ай бұрын
Any positives ?? Almost as negative as the bbc !
@mcdon24012 ай бұрын
It's got to be Cowabunga and Mozzarella.
@michaelteasdill6410Ай бұрын
your not allowed to work near water, been that way for over 3 years
@lewismajor7562 ай бұрын
Kowabbunga Motzarella
@bucklelanefarm2 ай бұрын
Cowabunga mozzarella?
@joeamos-somasystemspvbatte62 ай бұрын
OR are one of the worst I have ever dealt with
@gedtierney3742 ай бұрын
Bit insensitive having a competition considering the seriousness of the subject matter.
@efixx2 ай бұрын
We run a competition every week whatever the news, but if you watch carefully you'll notice we never insert challenge words into sensitive stories about loss or injury to respect the people involved and their family.
@manganiphiri43312 ай бұрын
Kawabonga & mozzarella
@123mikeyd3212 ай бұрын
Cowabunga, Mozzarella.
@G1ZQCArtwork2 ай бұрын
Cowabunga & Mozzarella.....
@royw.12202 ай бұрын
Cowabunga & Mozarella 😁
@Jasonf-km5mq2 ай бұрын
Cowabunga, mozzerella
@adoughertycontracting72432 ай бұрын
Cowabunga & mozzarella 🤔
@dieseldragon67562 ай бұрын
_Circumferential_ and _Cowabunga?_ 🔁🐮😇 Sounds like a newly opened Network Rail station! 🚈🇬🇧🙃
@tony9i9i9i2 ай бұрын
Cowabunga and Mozzarella
@harryanderson55292 ай бұрын
Has to be cowabunger and motzerella. Gread vid as always
@mark_just_mark2 ай бұрын
Kawabunga and Mozzarella (...on Master 'Joe' Splinter's pizza!!! 🍕)
@efixx2 ай бұрын
Nice reference from my youth there Mark! 😂
@MartinE632 ай бұрын
Cowabunga & mozzarella
@TheChipmunk20082 ай бұрын
Mozzarella, cowabunga
@rogerbellows29612 ай бұрын
Cowabunga and mozzarellaj
@_eusty2 ай бұрын
Cowabunga & mozzarella 😊
@Dog-whisperer74942 ай бұрын
Mozzarella and pizza
@hughmcnelis24482 ай бұрын
Cowabunga and mozzarella.
@EdwardBretherton2 ай бұрын
cowabunga and mozzarella
@oldman-trikki2 ай бұрын
Cowabunga/mozzarella
@kevinhenryviii2 ай бұрын
Cowabunga and nibble
@andrewwatson35762 ай бұрын
Kawabunga and Mozzarella
@Dog-whisperer74942 ай бұрын
Kawabunga and mozzarella
@thomp4492 ай бұрын
Cowabunga and Mozzarella
@Jakdaw2 ай бұрын
Cowabunga & mozzarella
@fudgedonkey2 ай бұрын
Mozzarella, cowabunga
@kanelawrence2 ай бұрын
Kawabunga and Mozzarella
@Qorn572 ай бұрын
Cowabunga and mozzarella
@efixx2 ай бұрын
Good guesses, listen to next week's show to see if you're right. 😃
@banit02 ай бұрын
Cowabunga and mozzarella
@efixx2 ай бұрын
Good guesses, listen to next week's show to see if you're right! 😃