3rd July 2004, 05:06 PM
Bad back, bad knees, bad wrists - lengthy treatment making no difference, and i'm still in my 20's.
To be honest I don't really see H & S having much impact, at the end of the day someones got to shift dirt into a wheelbarrow. I would say the digging is a young persons job and hopefully most peoples careers advance so they're doing less digging before problems arise.
If an employee is having difficulties however then allowances are have to be made on an individual basis, if a diggers body is crocked prehaps its time to train them up in the office or on something less physical.
Mind you its not just outdoors thats bad, after a day in the office on our shoddy desks ive got major back pain and rsi anyway. Plus shovels need to come in different sizes, i'm pretty tall and logically could do with longer handled tools than the shortarses around me.
To be honest I don't really see H & S having much impact, at the end of the day someones got to shift dirt into a wheelbarrow. I would say the digging is a young persons job and hopefully most peoples careers advance so they're doing less digging before problems arise.
If an employee is having difficulties however then allowances are have to be made on an individual basis, if a diggers body is crocked prehaps its time to train them up in the office or on something less physical.
Mind you its not just outdoors thats bad, after a day in the office on our shoddy desks ive got major back pain and rsi anyway. Plus shovels need to come in different sizes, i'm pretty tall and logically could do with longer handled tools than the shortarses around me.