31st December 2013, 03:33 PM
Tool Wrote:There must be a way to fight this ridiculousness? ...Sorry, it's riled me for years, the way the law is abused by the stupid. !There is a way out of this. Every task could be/should be subject to an individual risk assessment rather than relying on generic untested statements of intent. In Dino's example, if safety goggles make a machine driver 'blind' that strikes me as a risk that a risk assessment would highlight and take steps to eliminate. What archaeologists need to do is to make sure that our saftey policy of assessing the need for PPE on a task by task basis is implemented as a site wide policy when we share sites/facilities with contractors etc. This is ALL contained within existing H&S legislation. We need to make sure the WHOLE act is implemented and not just the bits that keep jobsworth H&S officers happy....
With peace and consolation hath dismist, And calm of mind all passion spent...