Oct 21
Fall Protection
The dangers of falling can be found in the most unlikely of places.
“Better safe than sorry.” – American Proverb
To the masses of Joe Publics walking down your city streets every day, fall protection may only include mittens and a scarf, but it is important for those working at heights to know the important difference between the protective measures required for a chilly breeze as opposed to a large vertical plummet; if you have ever worked in high places then you too have had the ever-creeping fear of slipping and going splat grow in the back of your mind.
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Oct 09
Although there is the odd deviant, obeying the law is important!
The Laws of Tendering
“Law is a bottomless pit; it is a cormorant,–a harpy that devours everything” – Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) prophesizes the current condition of Engineering Law and Ethics as taught at any major university.
For those of you engineers out there reading this blog, you too had to sit through a law course in your undergraduate career. If there is as much similarity between this writer, his old classmates, and the rest of the engineering demographic in the known universe as can be reasonably assumed, then engineering law and ethics was the class we all skipped in our desperate attempts to get a decent passing grade in concrete and steel. With that in mind, this article will cover the section of course notes on tendering that we burnt after the final exam, which perhaps is more interesting to all of us now that we have to be professional engineers while avoiding being sued by everyone under the sun.
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