So today 5 people got kicked off site for not wearing full ppe hat. Vest. Gloves. Mask. Full length trousers and steel toe caps all to fit wood in a finished flat , now I'm all for going to work and coming home safe and in one piece but it's getting a little silly does common sense not come into it at all. So after all 4 foremans came out gave us all a bollocking about not wearing hard hat in a finished flat I asked them about the unsafe scaffolding walk ways which I was told to worry about my own work so here's a few pics from the flat I was working in and expected to use as entrance to the loading bay and carry packs of wood into building on 3rd floor
That's why I don't work on site mate, ****ing bunch of mugs. No way would I be going up that scaffolding. That's how you die, not from not wearing a hard hat and steel toecaps in a flat
same as karndean dave said phone hse and let them pay the site a little visit unannounced, that will set the cat amongst the pigeons.
I have been booted of site before and that very afternoon my mate who was on the same site said the foreman had his 12 year old son there in no ppe!!! One rule for some and a different rule for the rest....
I hate site work but still have to do it. If I had a choice I wouldnt! Most of the foremans think they have the ultimate authority speaking to you like a sack of Sh*t, trying to tell you how to do your job etc like they are the damn police! id sell them out, get health and safety there and bring the Nobs down.
Had a similar experience. Turned up to lay carpet tiles in a gym. I checked if it was a finished site and was told yes, so we all turn and get stopped by a guy from mitre who says he now runs the site so its their rules and we must have hats, vest, metal toe caps to be on the site. i explain that i checked if it had been finished and handed back so not classed as a site, he said yes it had but mitie now run it so we must have the basics. I explain that we are fitting carpet tiles only but he refuses to let us work for h+s. so someone has to go into town and buy boots and we get lent the rest. A few hours later the guys turn up to install all the heavy gym equipment. 2 of the 3 guys wearing trainers, all allowed to get on with their job, no hassles no hold ups.
