Posted By Jack See Dangerous Occurence No. 5 in Schedule 2.

Posted By Ian Mycroft Thanks chaps, I've been continuing the investigation into the incident. At the time I didn't think that no. 5 in Schedule 2 applied because my understanding was that there was no fire or explosion, on further investigation, there was in fact fire and explosion, but it has now been reported anyway. The contractors did not ask for drawings showing the location of services because they came on site through a rear public entrance and started work without informing us that they were on site, breaking all our safety procedures, of which they were aware. They did use a CAT to investigate and got a wild reading but continued anyway, despite the National Grid markers being clearly visible. The question now is, where do we stand legally as far as responsibility, we have all the procedures in place to avoid incidents like this, but the contractor still circumvents them. Does that make him liable for the conseqences. We can't tighten up on site access as we are a public service organisation and so the public must have free access to large sites.