Hey 3rd,
Well it sounds like we all like you. It is true that your first post sounded a little like bragging. But now we know that is not the case. I am glad you let the foreman handle that, since it was his problem in the first place. You must have sat there with a **** eating grin on you face.
Sparky,
True it is only illegal if you get caught. However for you guys who actually work on the stuff you have to realize the regs are there for a reason. Like you said no on is 100% compliant. Even our place I will admit. However the regs are on the books, at least the OSHA regs, because at some point in the past someone got hurt doing a job in that manner. So sure you can get by with breaking a reg. But that is still, as you know, not the right way to do things. I guess that I work in a better situation becuase I have one plat to look after. So I have a controlled situation. You have many situations that are bad to start with. Like 3rd with having a difficult way to supply a ground. The best thing you can do then is do the best you can and make sure that either only you work on the job, or have qualified people working with who know of the dangers.
Let me tell you a little story. It has nothign to do with electricity, but a story about regs. Air nozzles have to be made so that if you put it against your skin the air pressue is reduced to below 30 psi. If not an air bubble could enter your blood and prove fatal. Yeah sure that will never happen. After I gave some training on this a maint. guy came up and told me he had seen it happen. The guy died in 12 minutes. So there is some fact behind the regs.
Sure did make a lively discussion didn't it?
