Quote Originally Posted by JoeVanGeaux View Post
Cool handiwork, but after over 30 years in the industrial health and safety profession I have to agree with those saying it would be a huge no-no here in the U.S. - for both practical and legal reasons.

To be clear, many of those rules are just bureaucratic wishful thinking, at best, but you'd still find yourself sideways with the gov'mint guys that carry clipboards during routine inspections and you'd be totally upside down with lawyers if someone accidentally mistook it for the real deal during an emergency. (I've known cases where someone standing within arms length of a safety shower that ran all the way across an industrial site to get to a water spigot in the lunch room! Panic makes people do, otherwise, unexpected things!)

Re-paint it (white with a green cross, like someone suggested) and keeping it at home to salvage your creative efforts.
Hey Joe, Again I agree 100% that this is not an item that should be seen in an industrial environment with who knows whatever that could happen, to folks that most times haven't had any type of formal training on how to even evacuate the building! I also agree with the fact that perfectly normal people could do some very, very bizarre things when panicking. I'm sure you would agree though Joe that the first order of business in a situation is NOT to PANIC! If the workers are well instructed and practiced as they should be in these workplaces they usually buck up and perform in more self controlled manors. The regrettable and unforgivable hick here is the lack of interest or desire to fund the required training. Management is responsible for these souls and most times fail miserably to look after their workers.

I was on the floor of a shop I worked for on day and saw a guy working on a spot welder that leaked the water coolant going to the 2 horizontal electrode tubes. Instead of repairing the leak properly, someone came up with the bright idea to just throw sawdust from the woodshop on the puddle to soak up the water. Brilliant they thought and put a very large box of the sawdust right there beside the spot welder in easy reach for the operator. This fellow (think 70s) had long very curly afro type hair. Not common on a white fellow but natural nonetheless. He was hard at it working away, sparks flying off in any direction and who would have guessed. Well looky here the box was on fire. The operator on the machine was well dressed for his job with a long shop coat or smock. This smock was well oiled up from the steel he was handling and before anyone could get a word in he thought it wiser to jump in the box and stomp the fire out rather than go and take a fire extinguisher off of one of the steel support posts close by. Well now, just like in that film the Fantastic Four and almost as quickly as that guy in the film. It was FLAME ON. He burst into flames so quickly it was amazing. I was pretty close by by then with an extinguisher I had retrieved from a post, as was another coming from the other side opposite. We pretty much let him have it at the same time and that was that. End of the human torch bit. His huge head of kinky hair was pretty much gone and that's all he seemed concerned about. His shop coat still smouldering when he removed it had been the brunt of the fire and his street clothes had nothing. He was lucky to walk away with just a few singed arms and no real burns.

What in God's name could have possessed him to jump into the burning box? We asked, his reply was just that it seemed like a good idea at the time? Stomp it out, Yahoo. Though it was not my work related duty to question any of this, I did. We did, others had the same point of view. Time for some proper education on the matter! We had some pro's come in and school every last person in the company. Janitor included.

So, even with proper training we see that folks are prone to panic. Human nature I guess. So I do agree that there are places for novelty items and that in other environments they don't belong period.

As far as the build goes that Eloy made I am quite sure that he has no intention of supplying these to shops and there is a very good possibility that he might be located in spain so the formal lessons on kit colors is a mute point and not really relevant to his presentation. The laws and ball busters of the US, Canada, Mexico or Mars for that matter have zero business sticking their noses in Spain's legal requirements. The point I would like to make is that we could be anywhere on this blue dot and our colors and legal crap does not apply to the person presenting.

One point in fact is that it's easy enough to see where folks are talking from. For example Frank S from Peacock, TX & 12bolts from Hinchinbrook QLD, Down under of course. Should of called it Paradise! Then There's me from Canada & last but not least in any way there's Joe from TX also Go Figure. You fellas were kind enough to give Eloy some 3 maybe 4 words before going negative on the guy? Read your statements! Your absolutely right concerning the laws and requirements in shops. Hell, we have the same dorky laws here in Canada. But the point is is it's not relevant to his build. He is in Spain for all we know and the wording on the build should have shown you that. He never showed any intention of populating shops with his build and certainly never wanted to screw with anyones color on it, probably the colors of his own home place, so good for him. I am sure he deserved better than " A lot of real nice quality work all for naught ". So Tell me what did this fellow do to deserve these comments and were they relavent to his build. Come on guy's a fellow builder from where ever, His intentions were good, No?