Is there anyone else who works in a place where if theres an emergency youre kind of expected to deal with it? The recent thread about a fire in a building made me think about it.
For example, the fire policy at my job:
Were expected to fight it until its totally out of control lol.
One time we had a fire (paper dust is very flamable) about 90 feet long, 20 feet wide, and 40 feet high lol, we all ran, and had to use equipment we werent trained on and hoses and had to put it out lol.
Mind you we do have an EMS team, but that was small and they werent called, neither was the fire dept lol. I finally talked the supervisor into giving our crew live training on all our equipment, and he scheduled it for friday, so pretty sweet all in all.
We recently had to emergency purge and drain a boiler and the whole back end except one operator was evacuated, and we werent even told about it, but could hear the blow off lol, but we were kept working. Mind you, if that boiler ever exploded it would be much like a hydrogen bomb that would leave a 5 mile wide hole in the ground...so maybe its better to be vaporized instantly lol.
I guess neither of these things even really bother me, i mean if we waited for the fire dept wed all be out of work, so i guess its just what you do.
For example, the fire policy at my job:
Were expected to fight it until its totally out of control lol.
One time we had a fire (paper dust is very flamable) about 90 feet long, 20 feet wide, and 40 feet high lol, we all ran, and had to use equipment we werent trained on and hoses and had to put it out lol.
Mind you we do have an EMS team, but that was small and they werent called, neither was the fire dept lol. I finally talked the supervisor into giving our crew live training on all our equipment, and he scheduled it for friday, so pretty sweet all in all.
We recently had to emergency purge and drain a boiler and the whole back end except one operator was evacuated, and we werent even told about it, but could hear the blow off lol, but we were kept working. Mind you, if that boiler ever exploded it would be much like a hydrogen bomb that would leave a 5 mile wide hole in the ground...so maybe its better to be vaporized instantly lol.
I guess neither of these things even really bother me, i mean if we waited for the fire dept wed all be out of work, so i guess its just what you do.
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