5th September 2005, 05:25 PM
Destroyer,
You obviously work for one of the more responible units, and have been lucky in the clients involved.
Where there is no consultant, not all work has a proper spec at all - often it is no more than a very sketchy curator's brief, which is not designed as a tender document at all, but is used as one.
The unit working on any job that I am the consultant for will certainly do a proper risk assessment - but plenty of posts in this thread complain about the lack of them, or their unavailability.
Site inductions will usually happen when the site is controlled by a non-archaeological contractor - but very often not when the archaeological unit is the only contractor on site.
These precise failures are one of the dominant themes of this discussion thread, and one of the key things that I in my consultant role try to fight against.
1man1desk
You obviously work for one of the more responible units, and have been lucky in the clients involved.
Where there is no consultant, not all work has a proper spec at all - often it is no more than a very sketchy curator's brief, which is not designed as a tender document at all, but is used as one.
The unit working on any job that I am the consultant for will certainly do a proper risk assessment - but plenty of posts in this thread complain about the lack of them, or their unavailability.
Site inductions will usually happen when the site is controlled by a non-archaeological contractor - but very often not when the archaeological unit is the only contractor on site.
These precise failures are one of the dominant themes of this discussion thread, and one of the key things that I in my consultant role try to fight against.
1man1desk