weld your own building?

[Warp Land Farmer]

what law?

Health and Safety at Work act 1974 & regulation 6 of the Working at Height regulations 2005.

 

[Forever Fendt]

i see one firm has been found £217,000 after an employee climbed on to a roof(4.5m high) from a cherry picker and fell to his death

 

[glasshouse]

Health and Safety at Work act 1974 & regulation 6 of the Working at Height regulations 2005.

but if the shed is full of straw, you are not working at height?

 

[Warp Land Farmer]

but if the shed is full of straw, you are not working at height?

You are classed as working at height where any fall could cause an injury - I don't think the HSE would view filling the barn with straw an approved method of providing fall arrest, that along with the lack of edge protection would have the perpetrator in hot water if reported and more than likely prosecuted if an accident occurred.

 

[multi power]

You are classed as working at height where any fall could cause an injury - I don't think the HSE would view filling the barn with straw an approved method of providing fall arrest, that along with the lack of edge protection would have the perpetrator in hot water if reported and more than likely prosecuted if an accident occurred.

You would be hard pressed to get injured falling onto bales of straw, there would be far more risk standing on a kitchen chair changing a light bulb

 

[opininionated]

Structural frames today should be designed to Eurocode (as British Standards such as 5950 are no longer acceptable) with reference to the national annex

....and broken the law of the land doing so.

Haven't you got some trains you can go and watch?

 

[glasshouse]

You would be hard pressed to get injured falling onto bales of straw, there would be far more risk standing on a kitchen chair changing a light bulb

exactly

 

[glasshouse]

You are classed as working at height where any fall could cause an injury - I don't think the HSE would view filling the barn with straw an approved method of providing fall arrest, that along with the lack of edge protection would have the perpetrator in hot water if reported and more than likely prosecuted if an accident occurred.

at least filling the shed with straw shows that safety is being put first.

 

[roscoe erf]

at least filling the shed with straw shows that safety is being put first.

good job they have banned smoking at work eh

 

[glasshouse]

good job they have banned smoking at work eh

and grinders

 

[brynseiri]

Quality varies around here, some frames are made out of thin stuff, but they're still up donkeys years later. I know if I started my own frame even with bought in angles etc, 6 years later it'd be like "time to get a pro here as I need the workshop back" frames and all that goes with them are a very competitive, if not cut throat game up here.

 

[TheTallGuy]

Health and Safety at Work act 1974 & regulation 6 of the Working at Height regulations 2005.

Actually HSWA 1974 & WAHR 2005 don't prohibit the use of bales for protection - as long as you can show that all reasonably foreseeable risks (and consequences thereof) are minimised as far as is reasonably practical for the work to be done then you have proved due diligence.

 

[john432]

This country of ours used to be called Great Britain, we led the world in construction and engineering. now the citizens can'teven think for themselfs! need risk assesments and H&S etc. Where has all this led us......... to the French and Chinease building our next lot of nuclear reactors ,on the cheap! Now that's what i call a risk!

 

[opininionated]

This country of ours used to be called Great Britain, we led the world in construction and engineering. now the citizens can'teven think for themselfs! need risk assesments and H&S etc. Where has all this led us......... to the French and Chinease building our next lot of nuclear reactors ,on the cheap! Now that's what i call a risk!

+several thousand likes.

 

[roscoe erf]

This country of ours used to be called Great Britain, we led the world in construction and engineering. now the citizens can'teven think for themselfs! need risk assesments and H&S etc. Where has all this led us......... to the French and Chinease building our next lot of nuclear reactors ,on the cheap! Now that's what i call a risk!

i hope you did a full risk assessment before posting

 

[S J H]

I'd rather fall on a stack of bales than a safety net.

When I was on site, they were pushing for us to wear harnesses roofing. I think iirc you only have 20 mins to live if you're suspended from a harness.

 

[roscoe erf]

I'd rather fall on a stack of bales than a safety net.

When I was on site, they were pushing for us to wear harnesses roofing. I think iirc you only have 20 mins to live if you're suspended from a harness.

had to wear one for the first time to sheet my lorry down what a palaver took longer to induct and read the training manual than to sheet the truck bloody pain as it would lock out like a seat belt when you moved suddenly

 

[opininionated]

had to wear one for the first time to sheet my lorry down what a palaver took longer to induct and read the training manual than to sheet the truck bloody pain as it would lock out like a seat belt when you moved suddenly

Won't affect you then, moving suddenly!

What do you attach the harness too when you are on top of a load, a sky hook?

 

[TheTallGuy]

had to wear one for the first time to sheet my lorry down what a palaver took longer to induct and read the training manual than to sheet the truck bloody pain as it would lock out like a seat belt when you moved suddenly

I've been involved in several jobs where the site management insisted on using a harness for tasks where the harness causes more hazards than it solves. That said, used properly for the right tasks and they can be lifesavers, but like so much in the H&S world it gets done to death!

My favourite is when told that HSE forbids working from a ladder - I generally have a copy of the HSE guidance note that says otherwise! One site refused to listen and insisted on having a tower erected to allow me to drill one small hole in a timber soffit 12 foot off the ground to fit a PIR sensor - one of the guys erecting the tower managed to break his ankle in the process!

 

[Cowcalf]

Won't affect you then, moving suddenly!

What do you attach the harness too when you are on top of a load, a sky hook?

presume where ever you chose to attach it would have to be certified to take the load !