Logical Health and Safety

[EvianBaby]

I just saw a picture of some builder sitting at the top of a building they are working on.

Could someone explain explain the logic in them being required to wear a hard hat at 800ft up?

[emmie]

Perhaps they are worried he might be bumping into one of them angels any day now..

[EvianBaby]

I was wondering if they were trying to protect them from high flying, constipated birds.

[emmie]

guess if he slipped he would go head first onto the ground, and maybe wearing a hard hat might soften the blow a bit, though from 800 ft up, doubt would be much use, the rest of him would be fairly mashed

[EvianBaby]

Perhaps. Although I imagine the hard hats would be long gone before they hit the ground. And from that height your chances would be slim, hat or not hat.

[emmie]

i don't know why, but i find this all rather funny, strange i know.

[bigbadmarty]

IMHO most of these h&s requirements ie hard hats , high vis. jackets etc are about establishing corporate identity and an implicit heirarchy of control by major contractors on employees and subcontractors . I

[scotman]

They need the hat as long as there is something above them. Why take it off and lose it when you get to the top?

[EvianBaby]

Scotman - in our industry we do a lot of roof work. They are required by H&S to be wearing the hard hat at all times. It's not a case of just not wanting to forget where you put it.

Not sure about the big corp idea either. Most of the hi-vi's I see are scrawled with obsene comments. :)