Health and Safety at BOP centres

[Degadar]

Coming from a manufacuring background I'm amazed that BOP centres are allowed to operate without their bird-handling staff all wearing chainmail gloves and goggles at the very least. Sewing machine operators have the luxury of turning their machines off before re-threading them. Re-jessing an angry eagle is not all that different.

How do these guys get past the risk assessment? Just wondering.

Deg.

[Afshimo]

lol, if they all had to wear huge goggles it'd be a swimming lesson not a falconry course!

I think it's just the fact that either they havnt got there yet, cant b bothered or someone told em its all part of falconry.

[Tim Laycock]

The whole principle of risk assessment is based on a simple equasion......

Likliehood X Severity

With competent staff the likliehood of injury is low and the severity of the average incident involving a BOP handled competently is low.

Low X Low = Low

Hope this helps to explain :yawinkle:

(I coulkd expand on this at great length but this will only serve to bore all concerned to tears and would serve nobody!)

[Pitbull]

nicely put Blackbird

[Tim Laycock]

It is a subject I dabble in :yawinkle:

[Tooker]

Low X Low = Low

Hope this helps to explain :yawinkle:

(I coulkd expand on this at great length but this will only serve to bore all concerned to tears and would serve nobody!)

low X low = low²
:>

[Jackson]

Coming from a manufacuring background I'm amazed that BOP centres are allowed to operate without their bird-handling staff all wearing chainmail gloves and goggles at the very least. Sewing machine operators have the luxury of turning their machines off before re-threading them. Re-jessing an angry eagle is not all that different.

How do these guys get past the risk assessment? Just wondering.

Deg.

are you saying they should wear goggles?? if so i dont agree, howd do you think everyone else does it?? iv e never head of anyone wearing goggles to change equipment! so why should centres be any different?

[FlameHairedFalconer]

Coming from a manufacuring background I'm amazed that BOP centres are allowed to operate without their bird-handling staff all wearing chainmail gloves and goggles at the very least. Sewing machine operators have the luxury of turning their machines off before re-threading them. Re-jessing an angry eagle is not all that different.

How do these guys get past the risk assessment? Just wondering.

Deg.

Chainmail gloves would surely be detrimental to any hawk/falcon or eagle when cast?? What about the health and safety of the hawk???

Why would you wear goggles? Just about any hawk or falcon could knock them off in any event if they were thrashing around that much....and if they were doing this I think you would need to reevaluate your casting technique!!


FHF

[BHawk]

easy, we stick up signs everywhere saying handling the birds is at their own risk, or we shoot the public and feed them to the birds.....the latter being my favourite!:lol:

[Degadar]

easy, we stick up signs everywhere saying handling the birds is at their own risk, or we shoot the public and feed them to the birds.....the latter being my favourite!:lol:

Thats my favourite option too. I was only musing here about the possible response to any accidents or injuries caused by (or to) birds as part of a business environment.

[BHawk]

hey if we could have it our way there would be NO public, NO anti's, NO french people:lol: and LOTS more goshawks

[Tim Laycock]

low X low = low²
:>

AS I said, I could have expanded at length and realy clouded the issue but I thought "Low" would suffice :yawinkle: (and I sont know how to add a small 2 :rolleyes: )

[Superfly]

easy, we stick up signs everywhere saying handling the birds is at their own risk, or we shoot the public and feed them to the birds.....the latter being my favourite!:lol:
There are times where that really should be a legal requirement, never mind an option. :-P