30th December 2004, 01:43 AM
thanks Troll....
Invisible... I have desparately wanted teh IFA to work... and in many ways it does... it is the recognised polital entiry of archaeology... it produces policies and guidence, codes and standards... all very good. It falls down in one respect... actually making the contractor follow standards... and I for one think that minimum standards are not something to aim for but to be surpassed (I was recently a director of a contracting company and know first hand that standards can surpass min requirements but still be competitive in the marketplace).
I am offering a way for complaints to be made to BAJR.... I will verify the complainant before progressing... a pain for me but there you go... I will then let both teh IFA and the curator or HSE officer know of the complaint... it is now up to them to check it is fine... the HSE would not hesitate.. and I know that if BAJR phoned me up and told me that the contractor working in my county was ripping up saxon graves I would be straight down there! but then I know that I would not phone up unless there was a real case of concern.
Perhaps the IFA will follow this idea and take it on... great... I could get back to providing job adverts, courses, information, calendar dates, guides, education help, directories of local history centres etc etc that I provide for free
Question is not why am I doing something that the IFA should be doing... more why are the IFA not providing this service already.. ?
BAJR
Invisible... I have desparately wanted teh IFA to work... and in many ways it does... it is the recognised polital entiry of archaeology... it produces policies and guidence, codes and standards... all very good. It falls down in one respect... actually making the contractor follow standards... and I for one think that minimum standards are not something to aim for but to be surpassed (I was recently a director of a contracting company and know first hand that standards can surpass min requirements but still be competitive in the marketplace).
I am offering a way for complaints to be made to BAJR.... I will verify the complainant before progressing... a pain for me but there you go... I will then let both teh IFA and the curator or HSE officer know of the complaint... it is now up to them to check it is fine... the HSE would not hesitate.. and I know that if BAJR phoned me up and told me that the contractor working in my county was ripping up saxon graves I would be straight down there! but then I know that I would not phone up unless there was a real case of concern.
Perhaps the IFA will follow this idea and take it on... great... I could get back to providing job adverts, courses, information, calendar dates, guides, education help, directories of local history centres etc etc that I provide for free
Question is not why am I doing something that the IFA should be doing... more why are the IFA not providing this service already.. ?
BAJR