what is your main gripe with H.S

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henry

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what is your main gripe with H & S on site. There must be something what can be done or do you think it's a good thing.
 
The fact that it costs you time which means it is costing you money, and that is coming out of your rate. Whether it means you have to buy a drip tray and a fire extinguisher for your generator, cart all your geat round to the back of the house because there is a scaffold at the front with nobody on it, or set up a podium scaffold to work 2.4m off the floor. Probably the most annoying thing is being talked to as if you are a f.ucking re***d. It's common sense!!!!! H&S is the main reason I won't work on big sites anymore. That and the fact that in my mind, all big companies are utter c**ts, employing c**ts to f.uck us all over.
 
biggest gripe... well, Most HS stuff is common sense which most people have. What I dont like is the bigger sites where u have to have permits for this and that and theres usually some jobsworth tosspot who's job it seems is to get you off site for stupid little stuff. Best i ever had was heathrow airside, after having done the CRB and then the airports own HSE course, then the induction, then the toolbox talk, we rocked up and had to put our toolboxes through the xray machine. Then to be told by the muppet behind the counter that we couldnt take our stanley knives through, or our chisels. At this point we started packing up and went home.
 
Im not taking the p1ss when i say ive worked of one of the most secure prisons in the uk and the health and safety was less hassle than a site seriously.
 
It's because the large firms can afford to pay some jobsworth cock 40 grand a year purely for h+s
I refuse to wear goggles if I'm working, I'd find something else if I had too
 
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I was in a tiny room doing sand cement with a 2.3m straight edge, it was that small I swear on the kids lifes I struggled to get it out after I put 10mm on the wall, the agent was just stood there saying it's the rules :RpS_cursing:
 
the other day i was on a flat roof about 6 stories with just one other person, all scaffolded out, and an agent came up and started to question me on why i wasnt wearing my goggles. and he started to take photos. so i picked the **** out of the scaffold we were working on, which had rails that had been unbolted so we could just fall off to the floor about 6-7 stories below. strangley he didnt take and photos of that, but he did leave us alone.
 
The one that winds me up the most is not being allowed to wear shorts when your sweating your bollox off, they would rather you died of heat exhaustion than heat stroke.
 
the only real problem ive had was i was working in a big gold refinery just off mollison ave in enfield and we was told we had to go to the check room where basically you have to strip down to your pants on the way in they hoover you down ( no hoover blow jobs though) take your phone, fags, keys and what ever else you have then you get dressed and you can go in, if you wanted you stuff through the day you had to go all the way back to the front of the complex ask for one of your fags give them a ref number so they knew what was yours then give it all bk before you went back in and got hoovered down again.
then wen you leave at the end of the day you had to go back to the check room where they hoovered all your clothes and pockets then made you strip and get hoovered again, also thourghly checking our tools on way in and way out,van had to be emptied and checked fully ,took ages:RpS_cursing: need less to say we made our basic day wage on that job and nothing more better than nothing i spose
 
you should try working at brize norton raf base. that took an hour each day to get in. they never stripped us naked tho unfortunatly
 
i work on books for a company ,and they are H&S mad , every trade must wear gloves at all times , ( got caught about 5 months ago , got a verbal warning , on my record for 6 months along with a joiner trying to put a grub screw in ) and following day NHBC bloke walkin about site with no gloves on , apparently maximum 1 man can lift is 20kg , yes brethrin i can hear you all shoutin ,, remember them days lads, 50 kg bags , 3 on shoulder of the wagon , straight in house upstairs first , no hi-ab them days ,:RpS_thumbup:
 
bobsterdobbin said:
i work on books for a company ,and they are H&S mad , every trade must wear gloves at all times , ( got caught about 5 months ago , got a verbal warning , on my record for 6 months along with a joiner trying to put a grub screw in ) and following day NHBC bloke walkin about site with no gloves on , apparently maximum 1 man can lift is 20kg , yes brethrin i can hear you all shoutin ,, remember them days lads, 50 kg bags , 3 on shoulder of the wagon , straight in house upstairs first , no hi-ab them days ,:RpS_thumbup:
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So does that mean that me and my mate, passing fireline boards to eachother up a 3 storey staircase (with no stairs in), were being naughty boys today then?
 
It most certainly does! I'm sure you'd have to move them up one lift at a time then put a crash deck in before moving them up another floor. Tsk tsk detention for you lads then!
 
bobsterdobbin said:
just like them theer posters show us Nick ,,bend knees , straight back , mask on ,goggles on ,gloves on but before all that don,t forget your risk assesment , oh and put that fag out ,:glare:
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you said the max one man can lift is 20 kg. so do 2 people have to share it?
 
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