12th December 2016, 02:55 PM
From my elevated point of view, the 'problem' seems to lie mainly with people who make a meal out of over-egged generic risk assessments rather than sitting down and considering what it is they're actually going to do on site. It's not rocket science: on even the largest most complex project, you're only digging holes so it's not hard to find established ways to do that without putting your employees at risk, and on many larger projects the construction contractor has usually done all the heavy lifting already.
I for one don't miss the 'halcyon days' of it being acceptable to work in deep unsupported holes, or to chance it on a four-stage scaffold tower constructed by people who'd learned how to do it fourth hand and were not all that fused about it being vertical or stable. In fact I never cease to be amazed that only one archaeologist has bought it on site despite the lax standards of blessed memory.
I for one don't miss the 'halcyon days' of it being acceptable to work in deep unsupported holes, or to chance it on a four-stage scaffold tower constructed by people who'd learned how to do it fourth hand and were not all that fused about it being vertical or stable. In fact I never cease to be amazed that only one archaeologist has bought it on site despite the lax standards of blessed memory.
D. Vader
Senior Consultant
Vader Maull & Palpatine
Archaeological Consultants
A tremor in the Force. The last time I felt it was in the presence of Tony Robinson.
Senior Consultant
Vader Maull & Palpatine
Archaeological Consultants
A tremor in the Force. The last time I felt it was in the presence of Tony Robinson.