RLC

If you ring Membership you can find out whether the Advisor is a member of IOSH.

If yes might be in breach of IOSH's Code of Conduct, and you could complain to the IOSH Disciplinary Cttee.

The key point is here "This issue relates to one of our clients, who we are in a long term contract with. Our director and several of their mangers etc dislike each other. Which I think is the main cause of this."

If you want to sort out something then sort out the management, who create the environment. If the advisor was allowing something that created an unreasonable risk then I could see your argument but if they are mearly preventing a job going ahead then that is not a H&S issue and instead it is a management issue, and should be sorted out as such.

You accuse him of using H&S as a weapon and yet you seem to want to do the same by going to his institution if he has one. It's a local management issue, so sort it out locally and within the management.

Regards.

Thanks for all the comments.

Statements from this H&S Advisor - to their own senior management or any third party person in meetings to try and make out company look bad. This is where i have to respond and of course it makes this person look bad, so where you would think they would go a read up on Health & Safety oh no, the attacks continue, but just get more outlandish.

We are unsafe, your operatives do not use Portable RCDs - Talking about Painters, who have no electrical equipment - we do use portable RCDs when we have too and have a strong system in place, this H&S Advisor was fully aware of our procedures weeks before making these comments.

We are unsafe, we allow our operatives to use domestic step ladders - All our ladders are either Cat 1 or (old Cat 2) New BSEN 131 for Light Trade or Heavy DIY, all ladders are checked etc. Works taking place in a domestic property. Same again fully aware we use BSEN 131 steps.

Email battle regarding confined spaces - This H&S Advisor comments, It has a door on it so it can not be a confined space. Hmm

No hot work paperwork, so it means there is no safe system in place. Did not bother to look at the risk assessment or method statement for the works.

Gas bottle not tied on at the top of a 4 story scaffold - Good eye sight, since he did not even go and look how the bottle was strapped on. Worked it out from the ground.

No edge protection on a flat roof - rails in place, safety harness in use, marshal in place at ground level and fenced area. work was re felting, which had to overlap the roof - Comments we are unsafe.

No brick guards on a scaffold, so potential for materials to fall to the ground - referring to 2 x plastic bags which in his photo, you could see, just a bit of one above the toe boards, containing some PPE and of cuts of felt.

They were upset that i would not use their site specific tick sheet paper for our property works.
This included, please state if you are working above open water, well the plumber could be over the toilet system and another was are you working next to a high speed road, ah, no we are in a building. Seem to get the hump that i did not use his paperwork.

This is just a few things that i have to deal with, have plenty more.

Cheers,

RLC

"No edge protection on a flat roof - rails in place, safety harness in use, marshal in place at ground level and fenced area. work was re felting, which had to overlap the roof - Comments we are unsafe."

You can get free standing edge protection with standards that can be lifted one at a time to enable edge protection to remain in place when felting to overlap the roof. Illustrated in HSG33 and has been around for well over 20 years.

No issues with scaffolding with all our other clients, except this client will only pay a set rate, which does not include anything except basic scaffold, and we will only get paid for a basic scaffold, they will not pay for anything else, its classed as inclusive to the set rate.
Even if i request edge protection to a large roof, they will say its inclusive with the price of the basic scaffold erected to gain access to the roof. If i then have a long battle and bring in health & safety, then they might give a little.