UNI Rant

[Grant]

We had a HSE (health and safety executive) lecturer come into college and lecture us on, beleive it or not, health and safety lol. In his eyes, it was safer to use a cement mixer on the ground without a stand, tip the mix on the floor, then shovel it into a barrow to save the risk of the mixer tipping over. To anyone not in the trade, that may not sound like a big deal, but when you get out from behind your HSE desk and do the job for real its largely impractical.
According to the same bloke we are not allowed step ladders on side, but later in conversation it was revealed that climbing onto the back of a lorry is against HSE regulations, and a step ladder should be used.... WTF?!
Anyway i digress, what I'm trying to say is you can go and learn about how a job should be done ,and then go and try to do it or learn it from the people who DO it, not talk about it. This all is largely pivoted upon what your trade/education is based upon however.
You cannot beat first hand experience, no matter what it is you are doing. Its they best way to learn. No two ways about it.