Knee Pads! on Time Team

[wombat]

Absolutely right DD. I think the TT stance is that Hi-Vis doesn't look good on camera, which just goes to show that they value their show more than the health and safety of the staff.

You do occasionally see a bit of token hard hat wearing, eg Francis Pryor with a hard hat perched comically on top of his head, but the general image that comes across is that H & S is all a bit of a joke.

Is Phil's hat H & S compliant?

[kevin wooldridge]

I don't know about the Akubra, but to give him credit Phil Harding always wears a hard hat when he is working with a machine....



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[Dirty Dave Lincoln]

Wearing a hard hat whilst machine watching is the most important time to do so, but it would be good if they did the rest of the gear-
1, to set a good example to the public-and explain why H & S is so important, and
2, for their own protection.
otherwise,how do they get site insurance without it?:face-huh:

[Windbag]

I wholeheartedly agree, DD.

[Pippyn]

Next dig I'm on I'm gonna pinch my better half's Duckies trousers that come with insertable knee pads, they've certainly saved his knees from the metal gangplanks out on the rigs, so a few stones should be no bother.

[chiz]

quote:Originally posted by Dirty Dave Lincoln

Wearing a hard hat whilst machine watching is the most important time to do so, but it would be good if they did the rest of the gear-
1, to set a good example to the public-and explain why H & S is so important, and
2, for their own protection.
otherwise,how do they get site insurance without it?:face-huh:

Having worked for them [i]once [/i]several years ago, I can say that their approach to H&S was essentially criminally negligent: Excavation in a public park, 4m deep through brick rubble, unbattered, unshored, left overnight with....four traffic cones and a bit of slack rope to stop people falling in. If someone had fallen in (oddly the place was swarming with kids and punters), then aside from being a completely avoidable accident, imagine the bad publicity? They have the money to set an example and should do so.

This has hopefully all changed, now back to knee pads...

[BAJR Host]

Hear they pay below BAJR rates as well... tsk!

?When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.?
William Blake

[chiz]

quote:Originally posted by BAJR Host

Hear they pay below BAJR rates as well... tsk!

when I worked for them it was ?60 a day for ten hour days, plus travel and lunch. That was as 'self-employed' so you had to pay tax and NI out of that.
It has apparently got a bit better, but it is still crap and hypocritical given Robinson's supposed support for fair pay for archaeologists

[mesolithic viking]

It's ?70 a day for TT diggers, self-employed. It's a bit galling they pay their drivers more than the diggers and the diggers aren't even mentioned in the credits.

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[the invisible man]

Plus full board at a quite nice hotel, lunch, elevenses and four o'clockses.