Modified seatbelt. Can it be put back?

[robinbanks]

We're more or fewer people per 100,000 workers killed or seriously injured in industrial accidents back then?

More. You can't fix stupid, and you'll never find the stats

 

[chssvl]

I came to the same conclusion in my earlier post, and posted side by side pictures saying why not



EBay item 276935375019 appears to be more like yours, but it has a damaged belt

Perhaps find someone breaking a jazz that looks like yours and ask them for a price on the required rear belt

Yes, it is definitely not the part and I asked the seller for more pictures but they said they won't provide. And yes, that other eBay part is definitely it (identical and I even zoomed into the part number stamped and it's the same) but, as you say, it's already cut so not really a solution.

I presume you've tried and discounted a specialist like this? I don't know then, just a 30 second Google search.

I will give these and the other guys that were mentioned a call now. Been fruitlessly contacting breakers and either they don't have it (they seem to sell the complete set plus airbag as a package) or the only quote I've gotten is £180. If no alternative that will have to do, but want to check all options first

 

[Avocet]

A good point, but I don't know the answer, I'm just glad I am out of industry now, and no longer subject to the H&S nazis - I can assess my own risks, minimise them my own way, and get on with it, like I always did. In my final years at work, visiting numerous sites per day, the company insisted on a risk assessment for every site I visited, alongside the site reports. Do it often enough, and the RA filling, turns into an automatic thing, not worth the paper it is written on.

What I notice is, that as they make things inherently safer, the numpties just find a riskier way to live. As cars became safer, then drivers became less patient, more willing to take risks on the road.

Believe me, I don't like it any more than you do, but if it were true that the numpties just found riskier ways to live, we wouldn't be seeing the reduction in deaths and injuries that we are doing.

I absolutely agree that people get numb to Risk Assessments, but that's only part of the point of having them. The main part, is that they leave an audit trail of whose ass to kick when something goes pear-shaped, and (more importantly), who to sue. The only language employers and businesses understand, is £money. If it hurts them in the pocket, they'll do something about it. These "compo" lawyers know that, and so do the companies, so the point of the RA, is that the lawyers can show it wasn't followed and get lots of money.

The other problem I have with risk assessments, is that it's generally NOT the thing on the risk assessment that gets you. It's something you HAVEN'T thought of. I always use the Titanic as a good example. It would have done very well in its risk assessment.

Hazard: Iceberg.

Who might be harmed: Everyone on board!

Risk control measures: Lookouts posted; Marconi wireless carried; distress flares carried; lifeboats to Board of trade requirements; Double-bottomed ship; Watertight compartments; Automatic doors in watertight compartments....

Job Done!