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Posted By MarkJAWatkins
Just a thought when I was driving today.
I saw a road maintenace team out on the road, some had clothing on (High Vis Vest) others had no top on at all and other had high vis vest and no other top on.
It wasn't a very hot day but it was sunny for long periods. Anyway, my question is; Does anybody have a policy about skin care in relation to sun-burn/exposure to sunlight and what procedure do they have in place (subsidised sun tan provision maybe) I know that this is also a concern for construction works in the summer.
Just a thought.
MW
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Posted By Steve B
Mark, there was a lot of discussion about protecting employees from the sun over the last couple of years, i.e. a responsibility to protect them. however I am glad to say it was kicked out because it would have been a nightmare to control. On my sites I insist workers stay covered up whilst working, but they can go home and strip off and lie in their gardens at night and get sun burnt. we had, last year some contractors installing a roof on one of my projects, the sub-contractor supplied them with sun glasses because of the high relection from the roof, they also offered sun block, but this was on moral caring grounds. Road workers are remote in alot of cases and very difficult to control. you can lay down rules for covering up, but as soon as you turn your back.... well I am sure you know... and I believe this is one of the reasons the legislation was kicked out.
A good conversation piece......
Regards
Steve B
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Posted By johnwaterson2773
I had the same problem. One of the operators tried his luck in asking for suntan lotion. I told him by your own, as work time is my time. Days later a group of construction workers are having their phot taken in CW and the discussion was about sun care. Not many had tops on if I remember correctly.
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Posted By Jeffrey Watt
Mark
We provide suntan lotion to our beach life guards but then they need to get stripped down to swim and it gets washed off and then re applied so I feel they are owed a greater duty because of the nature of their profession. They still complain that its too strong a factor (cos they want a tan) at which point they are told buy your own.
I believe that in the armed forces sunburn is viewed as a self inflicted wound and carries a punishment accordingly.
Jeff
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Posted By Descarte
I think this was discussed in length previously and I would see sunscreen for some if not all outdoor workers as a form of PPE, be it construction workers, police, council gardening staff etc... Have a look on the Australian H+S websites for detailed info, they are a lot more keyed up about this subject than we are. Below is an exert from a PPE policy, enjoy:
Provision of sun block when required will be provided, where work outside
cannot be avoided and normal use of PPE such as overalls or hard hats do not
offer adequate or suitable protection. Sun block type should be of a high
enough factor and type to protect against skin damage from UV radiation.
Work rotation, adequate rest facilities, shade and working hours should also
be considered to limit harmful exposure.
Health surveillance can be provided for employees with regular exposure to
UV radiation in high risk/equatorial countries. Though may often take the
place of provision of information related to self/personal screening
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Posted By garyh
.................should be treated just the same as workers in other newspapers.
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Posted By John Thorley Mark, We have just rolled out a skin cancer campaign just in time for the hot weather we are experiencing (joke) If you go onto the Cancer Research website, http://cancerresearch.uk.org/sunstart you can request both posters and factsheets on the risks of being exposed to the sun. I ordered 200 of each, which were free and distributed then at the site health and safety meetings, in addition to this we have requested 6 samples of hypo-allergic sunblock to trial. Hope this helps.
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Posted By MarkJAWatkins
Thanks to everyone for comments. MW
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Posted By anon1234
At a previous company we had a large number of employees who worked outdoors.
Following the concept that you are required to provide PPE etc to cover for extreme weather (usually considered to be rain etc) we conclude that the same concept applied to extremes of weather were the risk was sunburn. Clearly we enforced the need to cover up, but clearly you can't provide total cover, so we provided suncreams based on the assessment of risk
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