3rd May 2006, 02:29 PM
Breaches of Home Office licence ? I expect that this refers to the non-screening of the remains from the public view. I have often wodered how TV programmes such as 'Meet the Ancestors' deal with this - far from hiding the remains they are actually putting them on view in people's living rooms. I suspect that the HO might really see this clause in the licence as relating to the screening of the remains from inadvertent viewing as opposed to site visitors or telly addicts - still, no excuse for not screening a cemetery dig.
Aching-knees - I notice your ref. to the 1996 Construction (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regs - and indeed these are the regulations that our buddies in construction work to, with their hot/cold running water, drying rooms etc. However (and hence the reason for my earlier question), the HSE does not consider that archaeological work = construction (see second ACOP to the CDM Regs.). If the HSE are correct (and this has never to my knowledge been questioned in case law), then the 1996 CHSW Regs. do not apply to archaeological investigations when undertaken in advance of construction. Are there any welfare Regs. applicable to archaeology, or are we just going to have to fall back on the 1974 Act ?
Beamo
Aching-knees - I notice your ref. to the 1996 Construction (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regs - and indeed these are the regulations that our buddies in construction work to, with their hot/cold running water, drying rooms etc. However (and hence the reason for my earlier question), the HSE does not consider that archaeological work = construction (see second ACOP to the CDM Regs.). If the HSE are correct (and this has never to my knowledge been questioned in case law), then the 1996 CHSW Regs. do not apply to archaeological investigations when undertaken in advance of construction. Are there any welfare Regs. applicable to archaeology, or are we just going to have to fall back on the 1974 Act ?
Beamo