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Andrew MacLean
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It's funny the things that spook us. I have a prejudice that glass is stuff from which they make bottles and drinking vessels, windows and decoarative art. The thought of making a floor or stairs from glass is quite alien to me.
I think it is the same sort of thing as ancient food prohibitions. Fish swim and you eat fish. Cattle walk and you eat cattle. but what happens if you find something that is a 'fish' that walks. Lobster is usually proscribed. And what about an air breathing animal that seems to 'swim' on dry land? Well eating snakes is also usually proscribed in ancient cultures.
Floors made of window stuff just do not seem to be the sorts of thing on which a man my weight ought to walk!
Do you rememver the sequence in Mission Impossible III when the ehlecopter swoops round and the camera focuses on Tom Cruise standing on the glass roof of a glass building in Shanghai? I wasn't surprised he wanted to jump off!
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I think it is the same sort of thing as ancient food prohibitions. Fish swim and you eat fish. Cattle walk and you eat cattle. but what happens if you find something that is a 'fish' that walks. Lobster is usually proscribed. And what about an air breathing animal that seems to 'swim' on dry land? Well eating snakes is also usually proscribed in ancient cultures.
Floors made of window stuff just do not seem to be the sorts of thing on which a man my weight ought to walk!
Do you rememver the sequence in Mission Impossible III when the ehlecopter swoops round and the camera focuses on Tom Cruise standing on the glass roof of a glass building in Shanghai? I wasn't surprised he wanted to jump off!
Andrew
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Hmmm not had the glass step experience...although Id be the same! last two and maybe first two id need to focus on!....BUT again, another freaky thing!....if at nighttime i go downstairs I can walk them perfectly without my glasses!....But im sure the fact that I have lived here for many years and knows the step and its structure may have more to do with it..........funni old game!
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Well, at least the stairs are now slightly translucent... they were totally clear glass when first installed, but ladies wearing skirts wouldn't use them 
They are STILL difficult to see though, and like our fire exit stairs, they are horizontals only - no risers to feel for. As a result, I have permission to use the "fireman's lift" in an evacuation.
They are STILL difficult to see though, and like our fire exit stairs, they are horizontals only - no risers to feel for. As a result, I have permission to use the "fireman's lift" in an evacuation.
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We had a safety note today saying anything with more than two steps constitutes a ladder and you need training ebfore using them.
Told my boss I could not go up the stairs as it is a total of 16 steps and according to safety I was not trained. She told me not to be daft as I am the dept safety rep so I pointed out I was waiting for training.
Got told to use the lift so I pointed out that perhaps I should be trained in the safe use.
Boss decided to do the job herself in the end.
Just shows if you follow some rules the the letter no work ever gets done!
Told my boss I could not go up the stairs as it is a total of 16 steps and according to safety I was not trained. She told me not to be daft as I am the dept safety rep so I pointed out I was waiting for training.
Got told to use the lift so I pointed out that perhaps I should be trained in the safe use.
Boss decided to do the job herself in the end.
Just shows if you follow some rules the the letter no work ever gets done!
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rosemary johnson
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Stairs I can normally cope with, once I've got into the rhythm of a flight of steps/staircase.
I do have problems going down steep uneven stairs - and have to do so slowly and carefully.
So why, you might wonder, do I indulge in an activity whihc means meeting this type of obstacle fairly regularly? - yup folks: church bell ringing.
I have more problems with slopes.
Oh, and the places where the stripes onthe step edges are missing or incomplete.
There's a place I've been a few times now (up the grandstand at Epsom races, to be exact) where they had painted a stripe on the edge of all the steps - EXCEPT the top one.
Aaargghhh!
(Have't been there for a while now, so am hopng they've changed this. Ihave filled in several feedback sheets and mentioned it.)
Rosemary
I do have problems going down steep uneven stairs - and have to do so slowly and carefully.
So why, you might wonder, do I indulge in an activity whihc means meeting this type of obstacle fairly regularly? - yup folks: church bell ringing.
I have more problems with slopes.
Oh, and the places where the stripes onthe step edges are missing or incomplete.
There's a place I've been a few times now (up the grandstand at Epsom races, to be exact) where they had painted a stripe on the edge of all the steps - EXCEPT the top one.
Aaargghhh!
(Have't been there for a while now, so am hopng they've changed this. Ihave filled in several feedback sheets and mentioned it.)
Rosemary
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