Get out of here..!!
In Australia he'd still be writing up the Safe Work Method Statement.
I agree.. where else could that happen?
In the real world this would not happen.
China...pffft...wolf in a sheeps clothing!
Nothing they say or do can be trusted.
Prepare.....
No mate.. in the "real world" this would not happen because we have lost the desire to get stuck in and get the job done.. we cant move without filling out the statutory red tape first.. it was called " job creation" when implemented. In the "real world" it has restricted us in our ability to manufacture and made most things too expensive to manufacture in Australia.. ask Ford.. Holden..Toyota etc. All are leaving, not because making cars is too expensive, but because making cars HERE is too expensive. I love people who get stuck in.. get things done with no fuss, put themselves out because they are keen to do so and in doing so secure themselves a job. That's how I was taught to work.. its how I try to work now and more and more OH&S are pulling me up asking for a Safe Work Method Statement.. not because im working "unsafe" but because its a level of implemented red tape that now restricts my manufacturing time.. if I don't actually make stuff I go broke.. simple.
Ive been to China and was amazed at just how free enterprise was.. anyone and I mean anyone can buy goods from a factory and try their luck selling them to make some more money.. to buy more goods to sell and so on and so on. Its how people get off benefits.. its how free trade starts and its how incentives are created. You cant do that here as you need a licence.. insurance.. etc etc etc.
China is " the real world" my friend.. its us who have let it slip by
Risk Assessments, Safe work Method Statements, Job Safety Analysis all do have there place for a job with high risk, high value but not for how to do every job from turning on a machine and so on - it has gone way too far.
But China is heading that way as well but hopefully not as bad as us - a good friend of mine worked for 4 years in Dubai on huge money as a Safety Advisor for the tall skyscraper construction companies and just recently convinced to work for even bigger money on China's largest newest railway system controlling the high end of safety with construction / contractors etc right down to every part supplied towards the project must pass a certain level of paperwork / quality.
I am sure even Mike's pinball will have to go through a certain level of documented safety checks to electrically pass for use to sell in Australia. But at some point people have to trust that the operator knows what he is doing even if he is in pajamas - good on him for helping out at crazy hours.
Safety is a way of life but hopefully we Aussies wake up to simplify our ways before every manufacturing shop / plant realises it is too late and shut - but that is a whole other story.
What was the parts for Mike?
