Health and safety lacking in the VAB

[bonyetty]

Kerbanauts do their job knowing it is a risky business but do the job any way for science and glory. So why do SQUAD make Kerbal engineers and scientist in the VAB work in such an unsafe workplace. Rockets at either too low making them a head bumping hight risk, helmets do not seem to be available for these guys or too high and thus creating a falling from heights risk, no fall restraints available either. I also think that high visibility work attire should be made available for the VAB work crew to reduce the risk of being taken out by the drifting vehicles.

So for the safety of the hard working Kerbal engineers and scientist who get no glory. Could all the Construction coordinators (gamers) please place any and all rockets under construction at a safe working height. At least until SQUAD implements adequate safety systems and makes personal protective equipment available to VAB construction floor staff.

Your cooperation will be appreciated and hopefully KSP can maintain a perfect safety record with no know recorded deaths of ground staff to date.

To all Construction coordinators. If you at aware of any other health and safety issues for ground staff please post here so all other Construction coordinators can be made aware and implement the appropriate safety procedures.

Edited December 11, 2013 by sal_vager
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[Mr. Me]

Yah! Realism...GO!!!

P.S. What's a safe height?

[Rhyunix]

Its worse when they run in front of trucks- someone tell them that getting hit by a "yellow shiny thing" is not productive to say the least

[RocketPilot573]

P.S. What's a safe height?

I think 200 meters should do...

[zekes]

..too high and thus creating a falling from heights risk, no fall restraints available either..

No it's ok if they land on their head, you can actually de-orbit a kerbal and he will survive.

[bonyetty]

Yah! Realism...GO!!!

P.S. What's a safe height?

Above Kerbal head hight silly

[bonyetty]

No it's ok if they land on their head, you can actually de-orbit a kerbal and he will survive.

When they land on their helmets yes but ground staff don't have helmets.

[makinyashikino]

Kerbals also launch SRB-coated monstrosities, hoping that it has enough struts to keep it together.

Also, I'm not exactly sure that the Kerbals driving the cars have licenses, but they sure do love to do doughnuts around the scientists!

[Sirrobert]

When they land on their helmets yes but ground staff don't have helmets.

Nah, it's the skull that's strong. The helmet is just to keep the air in

[Mokmo]

The signalmen at the door of the VAB constantly hit their head with their signal wands...

[FlamedSteak]

Health and safety is covered by the fact that anything that isn't directly connected to the space craft turns into a ghost.

Also the rocket is completely mass-less until it's on the launch pad. A kerbal could lift a 100 ton rocket with one hand while it's in the VAB.

[kiwiak]

All kerbals have hivemind. So loosing one means same as organism loosing one cell.

Thats why they dont care about safety at all.

[Budgie]

I had no idea construction and utility vehicles could even go that fast - not to mention drift like a proper race car - until I saw the VAB. I guess Kerbals need their speed-fix on the planet's surface too!

[Moonfrog]

I think this thread is encouraging an unhealthy attitude towards the expendable nature of Kerbals. If the accidents in the VAB were to decline this would to a fall in mystery good production and in turn lead to a collapse in the scientific advancement of all Kerbal Kind.

This thread must be closed for the good of the community.

[el_coyoto]

I think this thread is encouraging an unhealthy attitude towards the expendable nature of Kerbals. If the accidents in the VAB were to decline this would to a fall in mystery good production and in turn lead to a collapse in the scientific advancement of all Kerbal Kind.

This thread must be closed for the good of the community.

Mmmmh, I naively thought that mystery goo was made of "high energy plankton"...

This changes everything.

"Mystery goo is people!"

[Epthelyn]

I think this thread is encouraging an unhealthy attitude towards the expendable nature of Kerbals. If the accidents in the VAB were to decline this would to a fall in mystery good production and in turn lead to a collapse in the scientific advancement of all Kerbal Kind.

This thread must be closed for the good of the community.

I'd have thought science would progress faster if the ground crew weren't being killed by falling fuel tanks.

[Lohan2008]

"Mystery goo is people!"

Reminds me of the scene in "the matrix" where Morphius describes the dead being fed to people in the matrix

[Spatzimaus]

P.S. What's a safe height?

Kerbals don't have a "safe height". They have a "minimum safe distance".

[el_coyoto]

Reminds me of the scene in "the matrix" where Morphius describes the dead being fed to people in the matrix

True, I was focused on Soylent Green and didn't think of Matrix.

The Matrix OST even contained Ministry's "Bad Blood", which fitted this scene nicely.

And now, because of you, it's looping in my head... \m/:D\m/

[Javster]

They go through the rockets. I call hacks.

A message from jeb: "What is "safety"?"

[Rieck]

Yeah that is a bother for a fact i mean discussing all this sort of stuff is important for us,When it comes to talking about that has a value,And please where people talk about it can really be good.

[BlackBicycle]

Kerbanauts do their job knowing it is a risky business ...... work in such an unsafe workplace... head bumping hight risk... ...and thus creating a falling from heights risk... I also think that high visibility work attire ... So for the safety of the hard working Kerbal engineers..

You are a true Australian, me man...

[Retread]

Obviously the safety standards for a species capable of reincarnation would be a little more lax than our own.

[Bobnova]

I take issue with the first half of the first sentence:

Kerbanauts do their job knowing it is a risky business

Do they? I can't find any evidence of that.

[6.forty]

I've spent more time watching hammer-wielding Kerbals pound on the floor during the SPH gymkhana practice than I have building spaceplanes. I'm as easily amused as Jeb.