18th January 2006, 12:37 PM
On what authority would an inspector enter a site? Perhaps the Contractor is not an RAO.
If an operative was carrying out work not in accordance with the standards and guidelines, who is disciplined, if both contractor and operative are members? Or if only one is? Or neither? "Only following orders" is unlikely to be a defence.
The Inspector could only have jurisdiction over matter of general defined standards. Contractual matters, which are different, are a matter for the consultant (if there is one). Thus, put crudely, the inspector has no interest is what is done, only how it is done.
Similarly, only the Curator can determine whether the terms of a condition have been satisfactorily discharged. Again this is no concern of the Inspector.
We owe the dead nothing but the truth.
If an operative was carrying out work not in accordance with the standards and guidelines, who is disciplined, if both contractor and operative are members? Or if only one is? Or neither? "Only following orders" is unlikely to be a defence.
The Inspector could only have jurisdiction over matter of general defined standards. Contractual matters, which are different, are a matter for the consultant (if there is one). Thus, put crudely, the inspector has no interest is what is done, only how it is done.
Similarly, only the Curator can determine whether the terms of a condition have been satisfactorily discharged. Again this is no concern of the Inspector.
We owe the dead nothing but the truth.