Time Team Series

[acorngen]

ohh I find out he has a Ba in Geography nothing more    and he is now a retired professor

Rob

[acorngen]

Time Team......a wonderful programme.However,Health and Safety appears to have got to them.They seem to be wearing hard hats these days when they stand in trenches no more than ankle deep.Still, one never knows what may fall out of the sky!.
 

There doesnt have to be a trench to have to wear a hard hat.  Anywhere that mechanical excavators are requires both a hard hat and a high vis jacket.  In a trench of 1m depth a hard hat must be worn however this is flaunted many times especially when we have to excavate something fragile.

What surprises me though is the amount of TT staff who do not wear toe protectors which are required all the time

H&S in my opinion cannot be stringent enough.  For example one archaeologist working on a site in London back in 2002 had a wall fall on them in a trench because a site director for the building company decided that the trench was empty and had his jcb driver push it in.  The guy walked away with concussion and cuts thankfully and his Hard hat protected his head

Rob

[meles]

Yay Genresearch! As a professional H&S man, how nice it is to hear some positive views on what I do, rather than complaints about the "Nanny State" - and then watch those ambulance chaser claims companies cash in.

What a nice way for my weekend to start. 

meles

[old rowley]

Meles,
Unlike many I take my hat off to you, I have the highest regard for those that work in H&S and I agree, with what Genresearch has said, H&S can not be stressed enough. For the last four year's I have had the responsability of being in charge of the H&S for an annual day event which attracts upwards of 5,000 people of all ages. The planning, layout and risk assessment  of the event was generally left up to myself and if something had happened on the day it would have fallen on my shoulder's to sort out or to be held accountable. Since taking on this role (with no training and being thrown in the deep end) my eyes have been opened, so to speak, at the accidents waiting to happen. I can understand, for instance, of the need to have crash mats in the front of bouncy castles and of the need of safety glasses in paint ball marquee's and also of cables being "trenched in" but even I could not get my head around the some of the  new licensing law's that came in, in October last year.

old rowley

[Llwyd]

Oh mea culpa!.I seem to have been soundly reprimanded by the H and S brigade. I must go and wear sack cloth and ashes.But first,may I please have some guidance?.After all, I wouldn't wish to contravene any regulations.

[acorngen]

Llwyd,

No you have just been shown that your comments were stupid as is the flame above.  We all may find some of the H&S regulations a tad silly but when they save your life or a limb you will thank them.  Now feel free to walk on any of my sites without the correct H&S gear on and you will fly off the site again with a size 11 toe tector boot up ya ...... well anyway

Rob

[Simma]

It may be of interest to some to know that while Mick from 'Time Team' started his PhD in Archaeology he never finished it - I understand all his work was stolen from his car outside a T-Rex concert.

[acorngen]

Simma,

Scroll back it as been mentioned elsewhere on this thread

Rob

[Llwyd]

Llwyd,

No you have just been shown that your comments were stupid as is the flame above.  We all may find some of the H&S regulations a tad silly but when they save your life or a limb you will thank them.  Now feel free to walk on any of my sites without the correct H&S gear on and you will fly off the site again with a size 11 toe tector boot up ya ...... well anyway

Rob

Oh dear.......