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Looking for opinions for tool lanyards:
in my opinion they restrict access if your casting roughcast
What happens if there is no anchor points on power tools and where do you attach it to yourself
The average length is 1.2 metres
Any longer it will be a trip hazard
Entanglement
Company were are doing a job for insists on tool lanyards ask me you are creating a hazard b y using them
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Ah - you've struck that problem that many have struck before - "Client's Requirements"
If the Client specifies something, you'll have the Devil's own job getting them to change their minds, [and they usually won't - unless there is a strong 'Safety' argument against what they are asking for], so the easy solution is to do what they ask
HOWEVER - if the requirement wasn't in the original 'tender' documentation, and you were only made aware of it after accepting the work, you can reasonably expect the Client to pay for any equipment modifications [and changes to working practice] that are required.
Good Luck - you'll need it
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I work in the Electricity supply industry and we don't use lanyards for handtools as they do become a hazard when moving on a tower. We have exclusion zones under the work area which are coned off. All work or movement aloft has to cease before anyone can enter the zone to attach equipment etc.
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We apply the same practice. No working below people above UNLESS there is little or no chance of a dropped tool dropping further than the operators feet. (Scaffold toe boards, close boarding etc.)
I find every time we come up against 'client requirements' it has been put in place by someone who doesn't understand the work or equipment and has been reading an Arco catalogue!
Try explaining why your risk assessment does not allow lanyards for specific works and implement other controls. (exclusion zones etc.)
Find a compromise? Lanyards on some tools, (drills, hammers etc.) and none on tools where it can become a problem?
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well I would like to thank everyone who was good enough to send me a reply and unfortuneately most were spot on about client responses.
I spoke to a member of the company who cover there Health and Safety and he could not visuall y picture the point I was trying to make.
I explained that if a member of the rendering squad had wrist lanyards attached to tools on both hands how could he protect himself if he slipped or fell, in the process cutting himself on one of his trowels or landing on top of one of the tools and recieving a puncture wound.
I explained this was not reasonably practacable as we have toolboards and hop ups fitted to the scaffold the answer I recieved back was how do you know he will fall my reply was how do you know that he wont fall was this scienario so hard to picture.
Eventually I manage to talk him into allowing us to perform a practical demonstration next week.
Is it me or am I missing something why that was so hard to picture the chain of events
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That perennial problem of people not understanding what you do! We've just had it suggested that as the nights draw in we could carry on working on towers during the hours of darkness! Which we do in an emergency, but to suggest it as a routine just goes to show a lack of understanding of the work and the conditions........
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