Posted By Bob Youel On a nice summer day walk around the parks and the keep-fit centers and in winter stay indoors whilst carrying a lot of paper and looking busy or is that what some managers think we do?

Posted By Flic Every day is different but ..... Find contractor cutting kerbstones beside our building dry and with no respiratory protection. Have a little word with him, and he gives all kinds of excuse why he is doing it that way. Trace the project back to the project owner and pass problem on to them. Later he is to be seen doing it correctly. Update the training records for joiners/leavers and recent attendees on induction training. Discover I am getting dangerously low on allocation of memory by the IT people and archive lots of stuff from the network onto a CD. The Fire alarm system appears to have a terminal fault and I spend some time figuring out what the implications of the fault are, and trying to establish whether the order to replace it really has been put through. Workarounds are established to enable continued safe occupation of building. In anticipation of a visit from the pressure systems inspector, survey the site trying to find the equipment (some of it is mobile and its position moves frequently). You bet it will be in a different place tomorrow. Visitor to office wants to know what to do when an expensive piece of electrical equipment apparently fails the earth test on PAT testing. Read documents on the upcoming impacts of 2004/40/EC with a view to making comments. Flic

Posted By Safe System that had me in stitches! and who said we didn't have personalities! .. oh yer.. the press :)

Posted By andy tetlow TYPICAL DAY 0730 – CHECK EMAILS FOR ANY SAFETY UPDATES 0745 - ASSIST LAGGERS AND SCAFFS SUPERVISORS WITH MORNING BRIEF, PASS ON ANY INFO FROM PREVIOUS DAY THAT MIGHT BE RELEVANT TO SAFETY. KEEP IT BRIEF. 0800- HAVE A WALKDOWN OF AREAS , CHAT WITH LADS. ANY CONCERNS. 0830- 0900- AREA SAFETY COORD. MEETING. SHARING PREVIOUS DAYS EXPERIENCES. 0900-1000 ISSUE/ PHOTOCOPY ANY FLYERS, NEWS LETTERS, OPEX BRIEFS AND PUT THEM ON DESK BEFORE MORNING BREAK FOR THEM TO READ. 1030-1100 SAFETY REPS MEETING( NOT DESPERATE FOR YOU TO GO, BUT SOMEBODY SHOULD REPRESENT THE LADS) 1100-1300 WALKDOWN AREAS WITH OTHER SAFETY COORDINATORS. 1330 GO THROUGH ANY SAFETY OBS RECEIVED THAT DAY. TRY AND CLOSE THEM OUT. SPEAK TO MANAGER IF ANY MAJOR CONCERNS. RAISE CONDITION REPORTS IF REQUIRED. 1500 JOB FREEZE AUDIT ON SCAFFS AND LAGGERS. DO DIFFERENT AREAS EACH DAY. 1600- 1800- SOME DAYS THERE ARE MEETINGS FOR CONDITION REPORTS OR WALKDOWNS WITH MANAGEMENT ALWAYS FINISH YOUR DAY BY RECORDING YOUR DAILY FINDINGS. I DO ONE AREA SAFETY AUDIT A WEEK. THEY CAN TAKE UP TO 3 HOURS TO COMPLETE SOMETIMES. THEN ALL WEEK CLOSING SAFETY OBSERVATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN RAISED. WHEN DOING OBSERVATIONS: SPEAK TO LADS, ASK IF ALL OK, ARE THEY HAPPY WITH INSTRUCTIONS THEY HAVE RECEIVED, IS SCAFFOLD SUITABLE AND IN A GOOD CONDITION, CLEAN AND TIDY BEFORE THEY START. ARE BARRIERS AND SIGNS IN PLACE. DO THEY HAVE THE CORRECT PPE, PAPERWORK. IS RISK ASSESSMENT SUITABLE AND SUFFICIENT. GO THROUGH IT WITH THE LADS, HELP THEM OUT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, HELP AND ENCOURAGE THEM TO HAZARD SPOT THE AREA. ON WALKDOWNS LOOK FOR PARALLEL PARTIES IN THE AREAS. ENSURE THERE HAS BEEN GOOD COMMUNICATION BETWEEN ALL. HAVE A QUESTIONING AND CHALLENGING ATTITUDE. IF YOU SEE SOMETHING THAT DOESN’T FEEL RIGHT, CHALLENGE AND HAVE A CHAT ABOUT THEIR PROCEDURES. ENSURE ALL AREAS ARE CLEAN AND TIDY AND WALKWAYS / FIRE ESCAPES ARE FREE FROM OBSTRUCTION AND HAZARDS. LET PEOPLE KNOW WHO YOU ARE AND THAT YOU ARE THERE TO HELP THEM. THE LIST IS ENDLESS……..YOU WILL ADOPT YOUR OWN STYLE AND APPROACH . THIS IS MY GENERAL STYLE.

Posted By andy tetlow CW...you need to get out more!

Posted By Crim One day recently I dropped the kids off at school then drove the 260 miles to Norwich. Met site manager on site and carried out safety inspection, drove to another site in Norwich, (lucky me 2 jobs in one place), carry out another inspection then drive to hotel. Arrive at hotel after 5pm, quick shower before dinner then relax (fall asleep) in front of the TV. Next day drove the 260 miles home.

Posted By Garry Yesterday Drove the 256 km from Dublin to Cork. Spent 40 Min's carrying out a site safety audit. Spoke for 5 minutes in the meeting and then listened to designers discuss specs and variations for 2 hours. Back into the car, listened to our engineer rabbit on for 3 hours about how engineers are misunderstood, how he is always right, how innovative and creative he is becoming, how he was in the top 3 students in his school, how fast his car is, how big his lawn is and how engineers will eventually take over the world. Noticed a grinding noise, stopped the car got got out, quick check, back into the care, heard grinding again, realised it was my teeth. Dropped off Leonardo De Vinci. Got home at 9:00 pm. Switched off and r-e-l-a-x-e-d.

Posted By Crim Similar to my response above except today: Only 220 miles to Kings Lynn, and only 1 site to visit. I,ve had my pub meal and now watching TV in hotel, Do I switch off? (Another thread). you tell me?