I recently visited a warehouse pro com workshop utilised by a metal working company fabricate ventilation ducts and who held offices at the same premises. I wanted to be sure I was not dealing with a cowboy company you see.
For a company in business for so many years I was frightened for the people who might have to work there.
It was impossible to work out how they were able to access the office without slicing their necks off, there were metal sheets, pipes and meshes everywhere. There appeared to be no order to the arrangement or storage and eventually our meeting had to be conducted outside on the street. Their attitude was to say the least not good at all.
In another encounter, I hit a cold trail with another contractor after visiting a premises with their engineers when i asked for a quotation and followed up by asking them to complete and review a pre contract health and safety risk assessment, mind you I had drawn it all up, they just needed to contribute to any areas i had missed out and let me have a works schedule outline telling me what, when and how things would be done. After this time, and my manpower expenditure, the contractor stopped answering my calls and emails to confirm cost and so on.
Although I am not in the building industry, I know of CDM and health and safety regulations monitored and managed by the Health and Safety Executive.
The 2007 CDM regulations are focused on merging previous regulations in the same area and focused on improvements to elicit significant and permanent changes in duty holder attitudes and behaviour. Read more here http://www.hse.gov.uk/construction/cdm.htm
Anyone else found people in the building and construction industry blatantly flouting the rules and endangering themselves in such a glaring way?? Join the discussion
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