20th January 2011, 06:47 PM
troll Wrote:...The accomo for projects can range from toilets to plush and all in between. Depends on the employer and his/her ethics and budget. Hey ho. What is not acceptable is the total lack of on-site welfare provision for field staff. Ever.
Entirely by coincidence, became the subject of a lengthy monitoring form from a curator this morning, and for the first time I can ever recall there was a whole section on welfare facilities (luckily passed with flying colours, even the microwave works, and luckily 'cleanliness' didn't seem to cover the layer of mud over everything) - when I commented on this the response was that, yeah, they're fed up with people doing even quite big jobs on their patch without so much as a cabin, so in at least one small corner of the country there's some hope for us diggers from that (slightly unexpected) direction :face-approve:
- although I'm not clear how they could actually enforce decent welfare, not really part of the average curator's remit..... :face-thinks: