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Knee Pads! on Time Team - wombat - 23rd January 2009
Absolutely right DD. I think the TT stance is that Hi-Vis doesn't look good on camera, which just goes to show that they value their show more than the health and safety of the staff.
You do occasionally see a bit of token hard hat wearing, eg Francis Pryor with a hard hat perched comically on top of his head, but the general image that comes across is that H & S is all a bit of a joke.
Is Phil's hat H & S compliant?
Knee Pads! on Time Team - kevin wooldridge - 23rd January 2009
I don't know about the Akubra, but to give him credit Phil Harding always wears a hard hat when he is working with a machine....
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Knee Pads! on Time Team - Dirty Dave Lincoln - 23rd January 2009
Wearing a hard hat whilst machine watching is the most important time to do so, but it would be good if they did the rest of the gear-
1, to set a good example to the public-and explain why H & S is so important, and
2, for their own protection.
otherwise,how do they get site insurance without it?:face-huh:
Knee Pads! on Time Team - Windbag - 23rd January 2009
I wholeheartedly agree, DD.
Knee Pads! on Time Team - Pippyn - 23rd January 2009
Next dig I'm on I'm gonna pinch my better half's Duckies trousers that come with insertable knee pads, they've certainly saved his knees from the metal gangplanks out on the rigs, so a few stones should be no bother.
Knee Pads! on Time Team - chiz - 23rd January 2009
Quote:quote:Originally posted by Dirty Dave Lincoln
Wearing a hard hat whilst machine watching is the most important time to do so, but it would be good if they did the rest of the gear-
1, to set a good example to the public-and explain why H & S is so important, and
2, for their own protection.
otherwise,how do they get site insurance without it?:face-huh:
Having worked for them [i]once [/i]several years ago, I can say that their approach to H&S was essentially criminally negligent: Excavation in a public park, 4m deep through brick rubble, unbattered, unshored, left overnight with....four traffic cones and a bit of slack rope to stop people falling in. If someone had fallen in (oddly the place was swarming with kids and punters), then aside from being a completely avoidable accident, imagine the bad publicity? They have the money to set an example and should do so.
This has hopefully all changed, now back to knee pads...
Knee Pads! on Time Team - BAJR Host - 24th January 2009
Hear they pay below BAJR rates as well... tsk!
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Knee Pads! on Time Team - chiz - 24th January 2009
Quote:quote:Originally posted by BAJR Host
Hear they pay below BAJR rates as well... tsk!
when I worked for them it was ?60 a day for ten hour days, plus travel and lunch. That was as 'self-employed' so you had to pay tax and NI out of that.
It has apparently got a bit better, but it is still crap and hypocritical given Robinson's supposed support for fair pay for archaeologists
Knee Pads! on Time Team - mesolithic viking - 25th January 2009
It's ?70 a day for TT diggers, self-employed. It's a bit galling they pay their drivers more than the diggers and the diggers aren't even mentioned in the credits.
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Knee Pads! on Time Team - the invisible man - 26th January 2009
Plus full board at a quite nice hotel, lunch, elevenses and four o'clockses.