Accreditation for grass cutting Solar

[MrNoo]

Just heard back from my mob and apparently they want me to "hire in" a H&S consultant Co for all the paperwork etc linked to grass cutting and broadleaved weed spraying. Utter farce if you ask me, they also want details of training and environmentally friendly practises etc.
I am suspecting that they just wish to make it hard for me as am the "favoured" bidder on the lease so just a box ticking exercise.
They want Cosh and H&S audit/plans etc.
Is this the norm?
I do have a good friend who is head of H&S at a large Co so am sure he could point me in the right direction re templates etc.

 

[Exfarmer]

Just heard back from my mob and apparently they want me to "hire in" a H&S consultant Co for all the paperwork etc linked to grass cutting and broadleaved weed spraying. Utter farce if you ask me, they also want details of training and environmentally friendly practises etc.
I am suspecting that they just wish to make it hard for me as am the "favoured" bidder on the lease so just a box ticking exercise.
They want Cosh and H&S audit/plans etc.
Is this the norm?
I do have a good friend who is head of H&S at a large Co so am sure he could point me in the right direction re templates etc.

If you need assistance on this, my next door neighbour was director of an H&S inspection co and now is director of a solar co I am sure he could help but would probably expect payment but he is a decent chap

 

[MrNoo]

If you need assistance on this, my next door neighbour was director of an H&S inspection co and now is director of a solar co I am sure he could help but would probably expect payment but he is a decent chap

Cheers I have had the email with detailed info of what they want, SSIP and training courses to a min of IOSH certification, just looked into it and not too bad. Just chatted to my friend and seems not too bad, just general H&S stuff. So see what they come back with if I do a couple of courses

 

[Doing it for the kids]

Yes this is.

It’s insane. They want us to repair the roads inside fenced areas, after taking a two day training course….

The way the worlds going

 

[MrNoo]

Well, after finding out the minimum they would be happy with SSIP and a tractor driving ticket, I booked on a course and registered with SMAS (£645) and I was then informed that they had awarded the tender to someone else, needless to say I am out of pocket and not at all amused. Gridserve, you're arseholes!!! Danny Letts especially!

 

[steveR]

Just heard back from my mob and apparently they want me to "hire in" a H&S consultant Co for all the paperwork etc linked to grass cutting and broadleaved weed spraying. Utter farce if you ask me, they also want details of training and environmentally friendly practises etc.
I am suspecting that they just wish to make it hard for me as am the "favoured" bidder on the lease so just a box ticking exercise.
They want Cosh and H&S audit/plans etc.
Is this the norm?
I do have a good friend who is head of H&S at a large Co so am sure he could point me in the right direction re templates etc.

Touch wood, nothing that mad.... yet.

I had to fill in a load of paperwork 2 years ago, but heard nothing since... I essentially said that the H&S, COSHH, were all part of my normal good practice on the farm and supplied my sprayers ticket.

My quote laboured the point that the previous regime was anything but environmentally friendly!! Seemed to have been taken on board at the time. Using a weed wiper and spot spraying was also a plus.

 

[steveR]

Well, after finding out the minimum they would be happy with SSIP and a tractor driving ticket, I booked on a course and registered with SMAS (£645) and I was then informed that they had awarded the tender to someone else, needless to say I am out of pocket and not at all amused. Gridserve, you're arseholes!!! Danny Letts especially!

SSIP??

 

[steveR]

Yes this is.

It’s insane. They want us to repair the roads inside fenced areas, after taking a two day training course….

The way the worlds going

I have some MOT to put down and simply get the material in, and charge them £50/hr to fill the potholes.

If the O&M team start getting uppity, then I will pull out of the maintenance. Life is too short to be arsed for £1-2K/annum

 

[Doing it for the kids]

Well, after finding out the minimum they would be happy with SSIP and a tractor driving ticket, I booked on a course and registered with SMAS (£645) and I was then informed that they had awarded the tender to someone else, needless to say I am out of pocket and not at all amused. Gridserve, you're arseholes!!! Danny Letts especially!

That’s really poor form.

Normally they want to keep in with landowner.

We strung them up so they had to offer to us first which helps persuading reasonableness!

 

[barnfield]

Well, after finding out the minimum they would be happy with SSIP and a tractor driving ticket, I booked on a course and registered with SMAS (£645) and I was then informed that they had awarded the tender to someone else, needless to say I am out of pocket and not at all amused. Gridserve, you're arseholes!!! Danny Letts especially!

That's awful, and all this in 24/48hrs sounds like a complete stitch-up...

 

[MrNoo]

That's awful, and all this in 24/48hrs sounds like a complete stitch-up...

Yes space of 24hrs. I've fired off e-mail stating my displeasure to a bod above. It's not the money that pisses me off it's mainly that I wanted to cut the grass because I can tell what an English Partridge chick looks like, plenty of pairs already moved in.
Instead I will have to endure some monkey just blatting through the place chopping all and sundry up.
I specifically got a clause stating that grass cutting not to take place during English Partridge nesting period.
I know the firm who got the contract and I know how business is conducted as know a very good friend who worked for them.

 

[MrNoo]

SSIP??

Welcome to SSIP

SSIP is actively reducing health and safety assessment costs and bureaucracy in the supply chain, by making cross-recognition between member schemes as effective as possible, and highlighting the savings to buyers and suppliers.

ssip.org.uk

Just a register that holds accreditation etc etc, much the same as Red Tractor

 

[steveR]

Yes space of 24hrs. I've fired off e-mail stating my displeasure to a bod above. It's not the money that pisses me off it's mainly that I wanted to cut the grass because I can tell what an English Partridge chick looks like, plenty of pairs already moved in.
Instead I will have to endure some monkey just blatting through the place chopping all and sundry up.
I specifically got a clause stating that grass cutting not to take place during English Partridge nesting period.
I know the firm who got the contract and I know how business is conducted as know a very good friend who worked for them.

I know the type of firm you describe.... only too well! Possibly even the company, if it is quite local to you.....

Like you, I want to do the work, as it makes for a better timed set op operations for starters, if necessary at all. A few years ago, 2 mowers arrived and went through the site. Completely pointless, as I had sheep in there!!

 

[Y Fan Wen]

At the end of Edward Gibbon's magnum opus, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire', one of the reasons he quotes is that the bureaucracy became so top heavy that society could no longer function.

 

[ringi]

This is an issue that Red Tractor should look at as they already covers most of the box ticking.

 

[milkloss]

This is an issue that Red Tractor should look at as they already covers most of the box ticking.

Some joke. When we were milking the rt for milking wouldn't cover the beef under the same ticket.

 

[ringi]

Some joke. When we were milking the rt for milking wouldn't cover the beef under the same ticket.

But I hope it was the same inspector for both.