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Off The Couch said:
So many small bars by the sound of it - is Perth finally coming of age.

Has anyone tried the Budburst in Oxford Street
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Yep. Quite nice, does good food too. Not cheap though. Usually a quiet place for a bottle of wine or premium beer (imported IPA or similar).
 

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Beerfish said:
Heard about that on the way home. What a way to go. Jesus.
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Sounds like a lack of common sense caused it too in the East Perth case.

We've got 8 heavy concrete slabs stacked on the back of the truck in 2 columns, lets only take them from one side, I'm sure that will remain balanced.
 
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Beerfish said:
Heard about that on the way home. What a way to go. Jesus.

The Alcoa one is a bit odd. Those guys would have had to have been wearing harnesses surely.
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You don't wear harnesses on a scaffold unless it's not finished/there is an opening in a handrail, otherwise you'd have to wear them everywhere. If he was working outside the platform or near a fall risk it's different.
 
kane249 said:
Sounds like a lack of common sense caused it too in the East Perth case.

We've got 8 heavy concrete slabs stacked on the back of the truck in 2 columns, lets only take them from one side, I'm sure that will remain balanced.
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It's all about training isn't it - we think common sense is just a given but if that was the case we wouldn't have things like a packet of airline nuts telling us "this packet may contain traces of nuts".

The boys could of just been in the groove and just not given it another thought. Absolute tragedy and my thoughts are with their family and friends.

These sorts of deaths always play with my head - how fragile and tenuous our lives are.
 
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You don't wear harnesses on a scaffold unless it's not finished/there is an opening in a handrail, otherwise you'd have to wear them everywhere. If he was working outside the platform or near a fall risk it's different.
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Surprised by this one, the guys who work up north aren't allowed to work above a certain height without being clipped on at all times.

But I have also heard that restrictions up north tend to be stricter than those working local.
 
You mean on mine sites? I wouldn't have thought that's a general rule, because a fall from 10m and a fall from 20m+ are both likely to seriously injure or kill you. I've certainly been on the top story of mine buildings without wearing fall harnesses. They're designed to not need them.

As I said, it's different if 'working' means removing the already existing fall protection devices such as handrails or working outside of them.
 
Yeah have had to do safety inductions for visiting remote sites, and from memory one of the working requirements for heights was at least one harness clipped at all times.

Whether it's actually enforced or not I wouldn't be able to tell you, I don't get a chance to go up there.
 
'Working at heights' means without edge protection.

Edit: If I remember the codes of practice/standards correctly, if you can fall over 2 metres, you need some form of edge protection or a fall prevention/arrest system.
 
Beerfish said:
Heard about that on the way home. What a way to go. Jesus.

The Alcoa one is a bit odd. Those guys would have had to have been wearing harnesses surely.
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My dad works at Alcoa in Wagerup, safety is pretty 'lax. Wouldn't be surprised if they were without harnesses.
 

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Off The Couch said:
It's all about training isn't it - we think common sense is just a given but if that was the case we wouldn't have things like a packet of airline nuts telling us "this packet may contain traces of nuts".

The boys could of just been in the groove and just not given it another thought. Absolute tragedy and my thoughts are with their family and friends.

These sorts of deaths always play with my head - how fragile and tenuous our lives are.
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That sounds and odd thing to put on a package!
 
I don't wish to derail the Perth thread or condemn the building industry but some work site behaviour ...cripes!

Some years back I worked on the 3rd floor of the old Commonwealth Bank in Murray Street and my desk overlooked
the back of the old Post Office and also the then building site of the complex that houses the Aviary Bar etc.

The old PO was being renovated and I never forget one day this young buck, with no harness or safety helmet, straddled
the end part of the scaffolding whilst he was tightening something above him.

He was perched on one pipe with his ankles crossed and locked on one approx 2 feet below the one he was sitting on so you can imagine
he was mighty unstable as he was struggling to fix whatever he was attending to.

He would have been a good 6-7 meters above the ground and what made it worse was that this older bloke (late 40's)
was just watching and not holding onto him or at least bracing him.

To me this was bordering on disdain for another work mate's welfare and he probably pulled seniority to get the young bloke to do this.

The building site next door had at times, some dodgy and cavalier practices as well but I have preached enough for one day!
 

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Smeg Head said:
Well a pasty ranga like yourself wouldn't cope with the sunshine here. :D
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Lived in Kalgoorlie for a couple of years as a randy 19 year old. Myself and an equally good looking alpha male lady killer mate used to do the 6 hour Friday night trip to your shit city reasonably often. We'd land like pirates, pillage your women, leave with seeds planted.

In the end we had to leave Kal because those women - having been with us - were no longer able to be satisfied by their Perth boyfriends. It started out slowly, girls we sort of remembered lobbing at the house we shared in Kalgoorlie. At first it was ok, but after a while they started acting like ivy. We'd shut a window and one would have fingers under a windowsill. We'd slam that shut and one would creep through a gap in the plaster cornices.

"Please!" They'd say, "our boyfriends in Perth are so ****ing dull! We beg you, please relieve us!"
 
Duritz said:
"Please!" They'd say, "our boyfriends in Perth are so ******* dull! We beg you, please relieve us!"
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I actually read an article the other day about a pornographic actress who moved to Perth for a time. I can't remember her name or find the article but she was quoted saying Perth men were shit in bed.

I don't know how fair that is though. Satisfying a pr0n star would be harder than stealing $100 from a beggar.
 
Jimmy_the_Gent said:
I actually read an article the other day about a pornographic actress who moved to Perth for a time. I can't remember her name or find the article but she was quoted saying Perth men were shit in bed.

I don't know how fair that is though. Satisfying a pr0n star would be harder than stealing $100 from a beggar.
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I think she'd be on the money. (Pun intended). She still knows a good root from a bad one, even if she's seen more ***** than a poultry farmer. In fact she's widely and deeply qualified.

But yeah that was the impression these girls kept giving us. It was interesting because the first Perth girl I met was up working in Kal Monday to Friday and then back home for weekends. It being Kal we'd be out pretty much every night, but she didn't seem to mind the skimpies and the hookers on Hay st.

So, she and I ended up back at the shack I shared with my mate one night and I gave her more sausage than a gay German bratwurst lovers convention. It all started from there.

"I think I'm falling in love with you" she says the next morning. At this stage I cannot think, let alone process, and am trying to work out what to do when my mate comes into the room.

"Duritz!" He says, before coming up with a line we used from then on to rescue one another from the jaws of desperate Perth housewives: "we need to go mate, the bait is dying on the hook."
 
Jimmy_the_Gent said:
I actually read an article the other day about a pornographic actress who moved to Perth for a time. I can't remember her name or find the article but she was quoted saying Perth men were shit in bed.

I don't know how fair that is though. Satisfying a pr0n star would be harder than stealing $100 from a beggar.
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That can't be true!

All the girls at La Cheries and Tudor Lane always said I was astonishing!

Mmm...now I wonder what they meant by that.
 
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