13th November 2014, 12:19 PM
Sith Wrote:The one thing I will say about CSCS cards and their equivalents is that they cannot do anything to assess common sense. Despite the cards and tests, inductions, toolbox talks and informal discussions, a colleague still had to turf a digger out of a 1m diameter by 2m deep pit earlier this year. I'm not sure what was more concerning; the digger's lack of common sense, or the fact that nobody else on site (supervisors included) had thought to question it.
I suspect that this is the real problem with the whole CSCS scheme.....it could be accused of perpetuating an idea that H&S is the responsibility of some unseen but all-knowing corporate, rather than the actual persons on site. As somebody wrote earlier, on joint occupancy sites that could result in nothing more than card checking rather than co-operative efforts to create a safe and healthy work environment.....
With peace and consolation hath dismist, And calm of mind all passion spent...