Thursday 19 February 2009

Shocking in the shower

I had a day off in the week this week and at the gym there was a distinct lack of health and safety. In the changing rooms there were a couple of maintenance men putting stuff up on the wall in the showers. I don’t know how, but there are always soap dispensers and racks for soap and stuff being pulled off the wall in there. So these two had got and extension cable running from the entrance to the changing rooms all the way through to the showers, and as people were still showering they were drilling holes in the wall in some of the adjoining cubicles. Now in the showers there are normally puddles of water going between cubicles and there is a trough which slants the water down towards the drains at each end, which run the length of the showers. On top of this there is all the steam from the showers themselves. All it would have taken was a bare wire on the extension or the drill, and anyone showering in there would have simultaneously been electrocuted. All they would have had to do was to ask people not to shower for ten minutes while they drilled and then removed their equipment.

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