Knives banned on drill rigs

One of our City Councillors made the news this week because he's trying to generate support to pass a bylaw banning knives in our city, PERIOD! He's concerned about the number of stabbings. What he wants to ban are knives (of any size) and 'anything that could be used as a knife', so technically, the saw that fellow is using could be banned here, 'cus it could be used as a knife. All the baddies will have to carry hammers, I guess, and ones with no sharp edges! (Like a law if going to make them stop carrying knives - just like banning guns will make criminals stop using them.) :barf:

I don't think he's got much chance of making this fly. I hope not. My collection will be useless as they're all users. Grrr.... :mad:
 
Artfully Martial said:
Oh man. A sharpened boomerang. That'd be like, super fun.
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I want one too! But - if I throw it and miss, would you mind catching it for me when it returns? ;)
 
toto said:
One of our City Councillors made the news this week because he's trying to generate support to pass a bylaw banning knives in our city, PERIOD!
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That's pretty scary. Even if it has no chance passing, the mere fact that some people think like this, especially ones in positions of power, is very disturbing. Do you mind revealing what city you are talking about?
 
DGG said:
Aren't the Aussie politicians the same goofy bunch that made law abiding citizens turn in their .22 rifles and 12 gauge shotguns or else go to jail?
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Yep our politicians are oxygen thieves allright - but not guilty in this case. It's an American owned company.
 
I worked for a wireline company for 3 years. There's way too much crap other than knives that will cut your hands on a workboat/rig. Hell, I tore open my pinky (5 stitches) moving a cylindrical airgun-no sharp edges, just 130 lbs. and a rusty/pitted surface I shouldn't have been lifting from. I carried a knife daily, and couldn't have worked without one. Some companies had a rule against them, but the toolpusher never gave us 2 looks, & the safety rep sits in the office all day (or counts band-aids).

I never worried about getting cut when I had overhead loads weighing 30,000 lbs, stepped around air lines holding 5000 psi, and kept one eye on the H2S alarms.
 
Just in case you rig boys were getting homesick..

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Helluva way to make a living...
You have the same problems everywhere, though. Those who don't know, are always telling those who do how to do what they don't know. Reminds me of a bumper sticker:
We, the willing
Led by the unknowing
Are asked to do the impossible
With the improbable
We are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
 
I'm just a mudlogger. It's a relatively clean job compared to being a drill hand.

-Bob
 
I'd say a big component of that "desk jockey's" big fat bonus each year depends on yearly safety results.
 
Its funny- I work for an oilfield supply company and everybody is used to seeing me carry a neck knife, folder and multitool (total of 4 blades) and nobody bats an eye yet here are men in the field who can not cut open an apple if they wanted to. What would they do if an accident happened and somebody needed their clothes removed- chew them off???
 
Yeah, that wood saw is soooooooo much safer!!

The management folk that made THAT desicion is a freakin' genius!
 
A company that periodically goes through its table of organization and eliminates desk jockeys has got to save money and increase efficiency.

The Postal Service is vitally concerned with safety, so many of our operations being inherently hazardous. Try driving all day long through New York City traffic :p

At one time, though, we were mandated to follow a new program where we would have to follow each employee through a workday, writing down everything they did, and noting at each step what could go wrong and how we would correct that safety hazard.

Naturally, the program was totally ignored at the workfloor level. Whoever came up with it forgot to notice that management AND labor were too busy getting the job done, with no extra people sitting around looking for a paper project to fill out. :rolleyes:

But to people in offices, filling out forms is all the "work" they do. Actually handling the product is a meaningless concept to these parasites.
 
Well said Essav. I did a paper for my Masters on the dysfunctions of beauracracy. So much of what happens at the middle level has nothing to do with getting the job done.

I flew to Darwin with a management team from an oil company once. We were due to fly offshore the next day and they knocked on my hotel room door inviting me to go out for dinner with them. I should have done the coporate thing and scmoozed with these guys; they were my clients after all. But I couldn't stand to spend the whole evening with them listening to their empire building BS and reptilian disregard for the lives of people working for them. I feigned a cough and had an early night.
 
Artfully Martial said:
Oh man. A sharpened boomerang. That'd be like, super fun.
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Emil Minty as "The Feral Kid" in Mad Max 2.

(I remembered his name! Am I sudden death at Trivial Pursuit or what?)

maximus otter
 
trout #2 said:
That's pretty scary. Even if it has no chance passing, the mere fact that some people think like this, especially ones in positions of power, is very disturbing. Do you mind revealing what city you are talking about?
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A medium-sized city in the wilds of the Canadian West. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. (Say that five times fast! :) )! Yes, it is disturbing, particularly due to the fact that the City solicitors are taking it seriously and looking for precedents and possibilities, and that this Councillor is a member of the Police Commission, so he does have some weight. Bah, humbug! :mad:
 
Notice how many of these common-sense restrictions on our dangerous weapons have the side effect of providing more government jobs (for the Councillors' family?)

How much is gun registration running in Canada now? A little over budget ...
 
Sure it's over the publicly stated budget, though I doubt it has reached the yearned for level quite yet...

Sakatoon isn't sounding all that good a place to set up my residential knifemaking forge.

Been there numerous times. Lovely town, handsome people. The winters would make me want to cut my own throat.
 
We have a saying about desk jockeys in Argentina: "El que sabe, sabe. Y el que no, es jefe" which would roughly translate into "There are those who know, and then there's the boss."
 
maximus otter said:
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Emil Minty as "The Feral Kid" in Mad Max 2.

(I remembered his name! Am I sudden death at Trivial Pursuit or what?)

maximus otter
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Emil Minty is now a sucessfull jeweller in Sydney - so I hear.
 
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