31st December 2013, 04:25 PM
If we don't comply with the main contractor's H&S (like wearing pointless PPE) on e.g. the current motorway scheme we're doing, we're instantly off the job, no appeal. Construction industry H&S has absolutely nothing to do with H&S Exec policy (which merely says that appropriate PPE should be used for the task immediately at hand) or law, it's a whole parallel universe. Latest one is apparently no wearing of wooly hats in cold weather, ignoring the fact that cold people aren't paying attention and far have more accidents...weirdly we can wear wellies but not riggers - the usual lack of ankle support b***ocks for riggers but apparently wellies do the job, clearly dry feet are more important than a broken ankle....