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HSE meets `green`then...Production operatives use stanley knives at work for opening cardboard boxes and we issue spare blades from the maint dept, previous H&S guy made us hand out a warning memo ("warning, sharp blades" etc.) with each one, what a waste of paper. Luckily present H&S guy is more practical and saves wasting paper!.
I'd like to hear the 'reasoning' behind this idea that if you're over the age of 18 you're going to use a blade or tool for it's intended purpose, but anyone under the age of 18 is going to use it to stab someone. I expect it ticks some box for having done 'something' to help combat knife crime, but it seems to be stopping kids from learning how to use knives safely.This thread reminds me of the ludicrous rules that shops have when selling knives/blades...
A few years ago I bought an expensive set of VDE screwdrivers from a large DIY chain and they insisted on checking ID to make sure I was over 18...
At the same time I was buying a 4 foot spirit level which could easily have been used to batter someone to death, but that could be sold to a 5 year old...
As I said to them at the time, if I was buying a screwdriver to use as a weapon, it would hardly be a boxed set of the premium insulated type would it?!
I have prepared a small document to assist forum members on the law regarding carrying bladed articles, this should not be relied on as legal defence but as a guide.
copy and paste you mean,,oliceman:
Agreed mate but the point was if I had stabbed him then it would have been me who would of ended up in court even though we were the victims,police round here have gone daft at the moment,got pulled up the other day,first time in over ten years for driving an unmarked police car ffs its a white volvo with the clear strobes that light up amber and a dashcam for when some idiot pulls out on me.I expect their point was that you bought the kitchen knife for cutting up food, and may have redeployed it to fend off an intruder, whereas there aren't many other reasons for owning an asp other than for hitting people with. It seems like the same sort of argument against owning a gun 'for protection', ie you've bought it with the specific intention of shooting someone, which isn't on.
Imagine walking to the shop in your lunch break with a pocketfull of screwdrivers - a policeman stops you and asks you why you've got them; the answer he wants to hear is "I'm an electrician and I use them for work", and not "for protection", although if someone tried to mug you it may be some defence to say you used whatever you had to hand in the situation.
Well I am in 3 different custody suites tomorrow and will have various stanley knives about my person, and an angle grinder and drill bits, hole saws, cutters, woodsaws....
It makes you wonder how they can approve this tat then.police round here have gone daft at the moment,got pulled up the other day,first time in over ten years for driving an unmarked police car ffs its a white volvo with the clear strobes that light up amber and a dashcam for when some idiot pulls out on me.
I just Googled " Accidents caused by Stanley Knifes" There is loads of very useful info but I couldn't resists this one.
Do have look, it just shows how dangerous they can be.
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What did they say about the amber strobes?
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