Last night I was cleaning the offices for about the seventh year of a civil engineering company (lots of men in muddy boots walking in and out) when this guy asks me "what chemicals are you using?".
This was strange in itself as this was only the second time in nearly ten years somebody had specifically wanted to know who the manufacturer of the chemicals was and what was in it. And the first time had been on Monday this week!
(Monday's guy was harmless as he is somebody who buys and sells companies and in the past he had done so with carpet cleaning companies. And yes he had been impressed with my cleaning.)
Anyway back to last night.
I say "Prochem". He says "Can I see your COSSH sheets?" and I'm thinking
. However been politeness personified I show him the tubs and he starts reading the instructions on the front and then says "So why aren't you wearing gloves and a face-mask?"
Not sure if he believed me when I said it wasn't actually necessary to do so!
Turned out he's a relatively new and "keen" employee of the company charged with "elf 'n' safety"! Apparently he got quite worked up about the consequences of the dust and grit that swirls around in the lorry compound getting in the employees eyes. One director had to point out to him that he ,the director, was more concerned about employees being run over by lorries than dust in the eye and that most sensible people would simply rub their eye if a bit of dust got into it.
Hope I don't get into trouble with anybody.
