3rd November 2005, 03:26 PM
A Safe Pass is a mandatory construction industry health and safety qualification. A training scheme called Fas run it over here, and it's a whole can of worms!
http://www.fas.ie/environmental_training...epass.html is the place to go. It costs in and around ?100, depending on where in the country you do it, and whether or not the venue will provide lunch.
At first, most of the companies paid the cost, however, I do not believe that any do anymore. It's also possible that you may have to do the course on a weekday, thus missing a day's work.
The course consists of a FAS registered health & Saftey trainer talking for about 6 hours on a range of general H&S issues on contrustion sites, from how to lift safely, build scaffolding, observe the huge great dumper truck that doesn't see you, to your and your employers legal rights and obligations. Very little is relevant to archaeology, but to walk onto any construction site in ireland you need it. And if you're working on the roads you will be forced to get it. You'll probably get a few weeks grace to sort it out though!
http://www.fas.ie/environmental_training...epass.html is the place to go. It costs in and around ?100, depending on where in the country you do it, and whether or not the venue will provide lunch.
At first, most of the companies paid the cost, however, I do not believe that any do anymore. It's also possible that you may have to do the course on a weekday, thus missing a day's work.
The course consists of a FAS registered health & Saftey trainer talking for about 6 hours on a range of general H&S issues on contrustion sites, from how to lift safely, build scaffolding, observe the huge great dumper truck that doesn't see you, to your and your employers legal rights and obligations. Very little is relevant to archaeology, but to walk onto any construction site in ireland you need it. And if you're working on the roads you will be forced to get it. You'll probably get a few weeks grace to sort it out though!