What Health and Safety....

[Fab Foodie]

Ha!
Just working late here in Russia, most gone home, cleaners are in. On of them just stood-up on a typical office roll-along chair at one end of a 30' row of bookcases and proceeded to dust the tops... pulling herself along the bookcases on the chair as she went.

Imagine the furore that would cause in the UK?

 

[Willow]

tell me about it I've been looking at risk assessments this afternoon!

 

[alecstilleyedye]

"magda claimed 30,000 roubles after a fall at work…"

 

[downfader]

I kept getting a b*llocking off ours because some lunatic has been stealing our wet floor signs from our puddles. And he keeps coming around and moaning about little things - never mind the bloody great machine that is gushing water all over the place, the broken flooring, the broken windows, etc etc.

 

[zimzum42]

You should see what goes on at Chinese building sites, amazing stuff

 

[mikeitup]

You should see what goes on at Chinese building sites, amazing stuff

I have seen footage. It was scary!!!

I recently watched a documentary about two blokes who scaffold very high buildings.
The scaffolding is made from bamboo and it's tied together with twine

Don't think they have heard of H&S

 

[ianrauk]

I was in Hong Kong in 1997 for a trade convention. The building was still under cunstruction at the time. I was amazed at the bamboo and twine scaffolding covering half the building. Amazing work.

 

[HLaB]

I work in an old Georgian offce in George Street, Edinburgh and we can see many roof tops; quite regularly we spot folk walking about on them with no harnesses. A really funny one was a bloke carrying out repairs on the roof opposite just the other week. He slid down the roof to a small sky light jumped from that to another skylight and went to jump to another only to realise it wasn't there but it was allright he had a hi vis jacket on

 

[Maz]

"magda claimed 30,000 roubles after a fall at work…"

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Don't delay. Call InjuryLawyers4U-kraine.

 

[Arch]

I have seen footage. It was scary!!!

I recently watched a documentary about two blokes who scaffold very high buildings.
The scaffolding is made from bamboo and it's tied together with twine

Don't think they have heard of H&S

I'm not certain, but I think bamboo might be as strong or stronger, weight for weight, than steel...

So it's the twine (and the quality of knots) you need to worry about.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

when i was in beijing in '88 there was plenty of bamboo scaffolding on show. according to the tour guide, arch is correct in her assumption. i'd imagine that the chinese construction industry is well adept at getting the knots right.

 

[Arch]

Bearing in mind that for centuries, we were constructing the great cathedrals of Europe without steel scaffolding, it must be feasible. I dare say there were a few accidents, but if every mason had fallen to their death, the things would never have got completed..

 

[ColinJ]

Ha!
Just working late here in Russia, most gone home, cleaners are in. On of them just stood-up on a typical office roll-along chair at one end of a 30' row of bookcases and proceeded to dust the tops... pulling herself along the bookcases on the chair as she went.

Imagine the furore that would cause in the UK?

People in the UK do crazy things too!

A guy in the office I used to work in stood on a chair like that to put a new starter in a fluorescent light. He got buzzed by a wasp and lost his balance trying to swat it. The chair rolled from under him and he chinned the corner of his desk... !

I saw someone walking up a ladder with both hands full of tools. The bottom of the ladder was about 8 feet out from the building and resting on the top step at the end of the garden path, 2 inches from the edge. Oh, and the steps were covered in moss and were wet...

A roofer who was going to sort out some leaky flashing on my roof arrived one Saturday afternoon after a session at the pub. He stank of booze, had bloodshot eyes and was slurring slightly. I was considering telling him that I didn't want him to do the job, when he suddenly swang himself up through my open Velux window and started walking about the roof with his hands in pockets. I kept imagining what would happen if he slipped - he certainly wouldn't be grabbing hold of the guttering as he fell past it!