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Posted By David Brede
Did any of you watch the news tonight showing a council worker in Dewsbury, Yorkshire carrying a steel plate up a ladder single handed to board up the poor child's home.
You would have thought that in view of the guaranteed coverage of the story a text book effort to board up the home would have been made, or perhaps this was it!
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Posted By Taff2
Saw it - wondered what other system could have been adopted:
Scaffolding - no (higher risk - longer period + more people at risk)
Cherry picker - possibly, but was there access from the road
When I pointed this out to a friend in the pub - he came back with the old chestnut - "the guy did the job, he did not have an accident, he did not have an injury - all this in front of the BBC cameras (extra pressure) - therefore it was a safe act. By definition no injury = safe....."
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Posted By David Brede
Smaller pieces of hoarding and an access scaffold would seem to be the right answer?
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Posted By Robert K Lewis
This is the way the LA has been doing this for the last umpteen years - probably has had a few accidents, as have all other local authorities and housing associations who have been doing this, but they only allow a tenner in the schedule of rates for it to be done.
Question is who is liable and if the person doing the job falls and is killed, by chance, is the Client on the sharp end as well as the contractor, presuming this was not a DLO operative? Would both employers end up on a CM charge?
Bob
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Posted By Tabs
"By definition no injury = safe.....""
Or lucky so far. Is this the fifth person on the contract because the first four are now injured / dead?
Is a gun discharged in a busy marketplace safe if the bullet misses everyone?
Not my definition of safe :-)
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Posted By Anthony Edwards
Hi there,
I saw something similar on Grand Designs last night when they were working on a log cabin roof no edge protection/scaffolding etc, fine until it goes Pete Tong!!
Nutty
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Posted By Barry Cooper
It amazes me on Grand Designs how many times I have seen no scaffolding, no fall protection, no hard hat, no safety specs, you name it, and they have have done it. Wonder how many accidents have occurred.
On one of the shows, the guy fell off planks used as a floor on the first storey. Great advertising for H&S
Barry
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