28th October 2005, 04:44 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by Pete M
At the moment you are wondering what the damage will be ...and that it resulted from poor technique or being asked to lift/carry weights that are likely to damage you?
I agree on the emp responsibility front completely, and did my best to protect people from themselves when I could. I some ways I suppose diggers should be a little selfish about this: face it somebody who's digging like a terrier is probably going to be in less than perfect control of their digging implement which means a. risk of someone else getting hurt and b. bad archaeology.
On my point about weight regs I personally had to be careful constantly for unconnected reasons (double hernia from 4), and still hadn't thought about the risk posed by just a 5kg weight which was what I was aiming at (admittedly badly - apologies for phrasing and stuff Pete M). I think the below document will be sobering for a lot of field archaeologists out there. Has anyone really thought a day of digging through on this basis?
[url][/url]http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg383.pdf
(I really have worked in the field)