15th July 2010, 05:16 PM
Sadly it's all gone too far judging by recent experiences. We had people coming down with heat-stroke last year because of the over-enthusiastic enforcement of unneccesary PPE requirements by the main contractor on one big scheme, endless problems/accidents due to the pointless wearing of goggles, numerous meetings along the lines of no, you actually can't use a camera while wearing half inch think safety gloves, etc etc. Many large construction contractors (particularly managers and H&S enforcers) can't deal with the concept of someone getting out of their vehicle and actually doing some manual work, and hence heap on stupid rules to cover their own a**es which actually lead to accidents....steamed-up goggles not a good idea on pipeline corridor covered in holes....:face-crying: