Pig Roast 1

[jmw]

Standards and regulations are part of our lives, whether we are engineers or not, but when I was browsing the UK Marine Coast Guard Agency site and came across this Guidance Note i was struck by its Pyhtonesque nature.

http://www.mcga.gov.uk/c4mca/mgn222.pdf

The title of this Guidance note?
[blue]USE OF BARBEQUES (BBQ's) AND PIG ROASTS ON SHIPS AND FISHING VESSELS[/blue]

I suppose it just illustrates that without Nanny State, who knows what people will do to them selves? burnt their boats around them? Anyway, It probably seemed like a good idea at the time.

I guess it was a response to actual incidents; which seems almost as bizzare as imagining a pro-active approach of a Government AGency imagining all the things that could go wrong and then dreaming up Guidance Notes to prevent that first incident.

I do wonder why they didn’t extend this cautionary note to fuel barges?

Anyway, it set me wondering if there are any similar bizzare guidance notes in the vast realms of engineering. Any offers?

JMW

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[epoisses]

Heheh... I know a refinery where they had a major fire because some contractors were having a barbecue on the parking lot......

 

[Tobalcane]

In my last company they band coffee makers in your cube or office area. There was a fire that was started by an empty coffee maker that somebody left on over the holiday break.

Go Mechanical Engineering
Tobalcane

 

[BJC]

Don' tbe deep frying any turkeys on your boat either.
Here's the UL site on turkeys.

http://www.ul.com/consumers/turkeys.html

The movie is interesting.
I have had fried turkey and it's good, not worth burning the house down for however.
The next couple of months is turkey frying, house burning season.

 

[Jabberwocky]

I always got a kick out of some of the FDA food labeling guidelines. I'm all for safe food, but some of the technicalities are pretty intense:

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFRSearch.cfm?fr=101.22

"(2) If the food contains any artificial flavor which simulates, resembles or reinforces the characterizing flavor, the name of the food on the principal display panel or panels of the label shall be accompanied by the common or usual name(s) of the characterizing flavor, in letters not less than one-half the height of the letters used in the name of the food and the name of the characterizing flavor shall be accompanied by the word(s) "artificial" or "artificially flavored", in letters not less than one-half the height of the letters in the name of the characterizing flavor, e.g., "artificial vanilla", "artificially flavored strawberry", or "grape artificially flavored"."