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Hally  
#1 Posted : 10 December 2010 11:04:28(UTC)
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Hally
Anyone ever come across this? We have procedures in place in regards to underground services, but a contractor has decided to move our fencing that was in place as onground power cables were cordoned off on a hospital site, and they deceided to run over the cable with a digger, and then after it went bang they reversed back across it. We've not got a policy to cover stupidity but now thinking of one... Jonathan
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bob youel  
#2 Posted : 10 December 2010 11:11:40(UTC)
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bob youel
1 of your contractors? If so I would charge them a lot of £ to confirm that the cable is still satisfactory as U as the client have all the 'Aces' - The only way people learn is to hit their pocket! Such things happen all the time
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Hally  
#3 Posted : 10 December 2010 11:17:53(UTC)
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Hally
Don't worry, they've been held responsible for it anyway, just worried about our Principal Contractor throwing the book at us for someone being so bleeding stupid (PC have removed people from their approved subcontractors for similar in the past if the outcome has been sorted less than satisfactorily), there was a reason the area was fenced off and still they moved the fencing to drive behind.
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Ron Hunter  
#4 Posted : 10 December 2010 12:29:32(UTC)
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Ron Hunter
One of your sub-contractors? Are you then in turn a contractor on-site responsible to the Principal Contractor? The key issues are cooperation, communication and coordination, and the onus on you to inform the PC that your subbie coming on PC's Site in order that the 3c's via appropriate induction process. Hindsight is a wonderful thing of course!
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firesafety101  
#5 Posted : 10 December 2010 12:43:11(UTC)
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firesafety101
http://www.youtube.com/u...towork#p/u/6/7XPRQ5LkRNw This is very apt for this topic. I suppose also a good one for Friday.
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Hally  
#6 Posted : 10 December 2010 12:50:25(UTC)
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Hally
ron hunter wrote:
One of your sub-contractors? Are you then in turn a contractor on-site responsible to the Principal Contractor? The key issues are cooperation, communication and coordination, and the onus on you to inform the PC that your subbie coming on PC's Site in order that the 3c's via appropriate induction process. Hindsight is a wonderful thing of course!
Both our people and the subcontractor are always inducted, not that the excavator driver took any notice of the area he wasn't supposed to be in.
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