15th July 2005, 06:12 PM
First, please accept my thanx everyone, this is the most important issue there is and, I really appreciate the gravity you guys are treating it with. Glaxsea, sadly, field archaeologists are for the most part, temporary/casual and itinerant workers. There are thousands of new graduates every year bursting to work for these units. As such, there is a huge pool of workers (experienced or otherwise) available to contractual units. Time and time again, a field operative with donkies years of experience surviving on one short contract to the next, can be fired for moaning and replaced tenfold the day after. The simple answer is this-seen as a whistleblower, your careers over. The sh*ite commercial units know it too and take the p*ss consistantly. I find this to be a disgusting and filthy environment but, for the mass of us-is reality. For my part, neglect HS at your peril.Not only will I take it extremely personally but, I will have the offending unit on the front page of every newspaper in the UK within 12 hours. Thats before I inform BAJR and the HSE.Then, my freinds, Troll will allow himself to get the right arsehole. So sack me, I only work for grown ups and professionals. That`s better, needed that....In short, offending units know that they can do what they like within a commercial environment where field archaeologists do not enjoy the security of work contracts enjoyed by full-time staff elsewhere in the archaeological industry. Penfold, Good to hear from you sir-think you may have just identified your specialism there mate...... 
as an aside, the HSE will only prosecute where they feel that they will have a reasonable chance of success in prosecution as litigation costs money.....
as an aside, the HSE will only prosecute where they feel that they will have a reasonable chance of success in prosecution as litigation costs money.....