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[tiger99]

Exactly! 93% sulphuric acid is a complete no in the workplace, unless your business is something like anodising, which uses it, with elaborate safety precautions. Caustic soda, again no in the workplace, but you can buy it anywhere. Lead, no way in the workplace unless you are a roofer, but you can buy it in Wickes. Grinders, ok at home, but at work you need to be properly trained, with paperwork to prove it, to change the stone. Lathes, milling machines, woodworking machinery, are available to the general public, without any controls at all. The cheapest, most popular, and most likely to cause severe injury is a portable circular saw.

I think one reason that UK industry is no longer competitive is that it is strangled by miss-appplication of Health and Safety law, to the extent that trained people are no longer allowed to do, safely, in the workplace, what most untrained people manage to accomplish safely at home.

I am absolutely in favour of people being highly trained in everything that they do, especially where safety is involved (it benefits productivity too), but it has gone way beyond that, to the point that a trained person can't be allowed to do what they are good at.

[mattbeddow]

Cue someone saying "in my day we didnt have H+S, we had common sense"

[dave-88_123]

i always apply a thick coat of nitromours then wait 10 mins for the paint to lift then then use a wire brush to remove it then repeat untill all paint is removed it allways worked for me