Remember Steffi I'm no longer young and am much closer to well lets just say the wrong side of 21. :D
I've had to appear in numerous courts over my working life and the worst time was at a bank where we where doing some routine service that involved reducing the processing power to about 50% and making the area safe along with removing any Power Plugs and Roping off the area with that 6 foot high plastic fence type stuff.
Apparently this upset some Id10t who cut through the plastic replaced every plug with a new one and I've got absolutely no idea where they came from as I had the old ones in a plastic bag in my tool box. Then I think it was the same Ijiot who wanted some coffee so he walked through the supposedly roped off area and got his coffee. On the way back not looking where he was walking he placed a foot into a trench because all the covers had been pulled up and stored safely away tripped breaking his ankle and fell into a Power Supply for one of the frames. This was of course open with all the covers removed and ran on 3 phase Power so it had 415 V AC running through the live side of the thing and he electrocuted himself, which I though was only fair as he did everything that he was told not to do and totally ignored the warning signs that where hanging all around the place. As the senior Tech I was called to the scene of the death around 2.00 AM to give a statement to the Investigating Officers and they even accepted that I had done everything within my power to prevent an accident like this from happening and took photos of the old plugs in my tool box and then took them as evidence. Apparently the entire place was photographed before I got there and my statement was just tiding things up.
At the inquest I was found to have breached my [b]Duty of Care[/b] as I didn't make the place safe to prevent this from happening according to the coroner I should not only have removed the power leads but the Power Supplies and every disconnected frame as well or at the very least made sure that all the covers where back in place and firmly bolted on. That was the coroners ruling anyway and the fact that we had exactly 1 week to do the work and couldn't perform it properly if we followed her destructions didn't matter.
Actually I should just have copped it sweat and not argued with the coroner as when it was pointed out that I had removed every plug her response was I should have removed the power leads so I asked If I did that who would be responsible if this fool had of replaced the power leads and plugs so she then decided that every Power Supply should have been removed and these needed a Fork Lift to move so it would have involved the total closure of the Main Frame Area pull out every Frame then remove every Power Supply at the end of the day replace then at the beginning of the day reattach the frames that we where working on and do whatever then at the end of the day pull them out and then the Power Supplies but only after removing the Leads and Plugs and the forklift as well as disabling the service lifts so that no one could get into the Main Frame Room and certainly not bring a fork lift down to replace components. So supposedly to so this job properly we had to work with the lift company to enable and disable lifts in such a manner that they couldn't be enabled when no one was there pack everything away out of sight with covers firmly attached and all the floor grates replaced as well so that while the bank was going broke quickly we could take about 10 times as long to do the routine work.
That was the only time that I've seen a Bank do the right thing and they took responsibility for the mess. Mainly because I suppose they realised that I wasn't going to allow any of my staff back there to go though what I had just gone through and they wouldn't have had reliable Main Frames so they where looking at a massive loss of revenue other than having their staff do as they had been instructed to do and not break into restricted areas of the Main Frame Room to get their liquid refreshment. I don't think that they liked the idea of loosing all their States Computing Power at a time either but I can not be certain of that beyond any doubt. :^0
What I couldn't get over was that there was space left to get the the rest rooms and staff room and it was actually easier to walk the way that was provided than go the long way through the area where we where working not to mention the time taken to cut down the Barrier material.
Anyway sorry but I'm not interested in going through something like that again so you'll have to sign a legal waiver stating that you take all the responsibility for the way that this device that you have either constructed or have caused to be constructed is your liability. :p
Col
