trouble on a contract with knee pads

[doug boardley]

I've always worn knee pads and it is in my employees contracts that they have to wear them. Having said that I also supply them so thay have no expense. The problem is each site has rules and it is how they are interpreted either with common sense or not. A bit like being made to wear a hard hat when tiling a finished house on site. What does that tell you?

tel

who pays for the cracked bath when the hard hat falls off:smilewinkgrin:

 

[White Room]

In the early years of working on sites in the 70's guys were up the pub at dinner time and fighting on site, guys would ride the hoists on one job until it gave way and two guys were injured when there was a sudden stop at the bottom.

My brother was on a site, again in the 70's, the scaffold had no hand rail and were talking high due to the tower cranes on site.
A guy jumped from the roof of a building onto the the scaffold, it swayed and he went over the top and hit the tower crane on his way down.
Before any HSE turned up they put a hand rail onto the scaffold, fast.

My partner was working in the offices of the main contractor who was doing part of the M25 in Hertfordshire.
A chippy had to do about half hours work on a flyover/bridge on some shuttering and did'nt use his safety harness bacause of the length of time he would be working at the hight he did'nt bother clipping himself to the scaffold, he fell to his death.

Health and Safety, we do need them it's us hating the inconvenience of having to wear hats and the like and when we don't and when there's an incident we need someone to blame for our missgivings

 

[RockCeramics]

so true whitebeam.
one of my first things before a site visit is PPE hard hat or bump cap if site excepts them safety glasses/ safety goggles if digging up. gloves, steel toe boots On any lul site only boots ,no safety shoes. steel can not be showing on boots. dust masks if digging up with impact goggles on. on some sites your not to wear t shirts. no alcohol 8 or 12 hrs before entering site. 3 health & safety tests to pass before entering Entry permit .Atkins passport. cscs. the list is so long icant remember them all.
And to think them bankers / city boys can go for 2 hr beer lunch breaks and **** up the whole uk financal system crazy world we live in.
But if i was told that i was going to lose an eye today cos i wont wear glasses , i reckon i`d put those glasses on.
LOVE YOUR BODY AND YOUR BODY WILL LOVE YOU.
Safety first it might feel strange or uncomfortable for a bit but time will pass and it`ll` all feel natural.

 

[Perry]

steel shows through your boots after 2 weeks in my job floors day and night if they all applied that rule i would have to put my prices up lol

 

[murf]

steel shows through your boots after 2 weeks in my job floors day and night if they all applied that rule i would have to put my prices up lol

Same here.