1st January 2014, 10:57 AM
Dinosaur Wrote: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.
Are our illustrious leaders at the IFA doing anything about this? Seems archaeologists are compelled to follow unsuitable (illegal?) Construction industry H and S policy or loose out on work. Kevin is right the law is quite clear, individual risk assessments must be applied rather than generic rules that cannot cover the wide variation in circumstances. Has any commercial archaeology company stood up to the main contractor over this ? Or are they all too scared or ignorant of the law?