Grant

It's the best available guidance and doesn't say much that wasn't said several decades ago.

Good contractors have done more during those decades; others have decided not to treat their workforce with common courtesy.

Way back in, I think, 1998, we were looking for a new HSE Adviser. After a while one of our engineers (who should have known better with his second question) asked me whether we had found one.

I said "yes". "What's his name?"

"Her name is Ann, and her name is Elizabeth". [Not their real names!!]

"But they will have to go onto construction sites?"

"Yes, what's the problem?"

"Well sometimes the welfare conditions are bog standard, if you will excuse the expression."

"Well, they shouldn't be and perhaps if they see a woman inspecting them, they might be even more embarrassed than they should be anyway. No excuses in the late 20th Century."

P

and which is the easiest cost to remove after a contract has been won and someone needs to make profit?