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Originally Posted by Hugh
Marty
you may find these states from the HSE helpful -
Your complaint seems to be at over-zealous (or worried about workplace compensation claims) H&S Officers - that is up to companies, not the Government. |
My complaint is that for years overzealous company H&S officers have been allowed to legislate at there pleasure causing conflicts and confusion which can be just as dangerous as having no H&S at all ,as in the example i gave above.On most sites i work on there is a mix of hazardous and non-hazardous work ,my own type of work is classed as both ,i have to follow about 10 different directives to remove a piece of glass from an old window ,but there are non to force the tennant to vacate the room while i am doing so or to remove children from the vicinity i.e stop them playing in the garden during the works ,i can ask them to vacate but they don't have to ,i can't plug a 18v battery charger into the mains of the house but i can plug a 110v transformer in ,on one site i had to buy a generator to charge my batteries(which shortens the life of the batteries) .These are sort of daft regulations i want sorting out .
New build sites are much better the regs are clear and make perfect sense hense the figures you quote