whats this problem that people have got about wearing H&S equipment.i wear safety boots ,hi vis vest,gloves,and dont find it a problem.surely theres more important things to worry about.
whats this problem that people have got about wearing H&S equipment.i wear safety boots ,hi vis vest,gloves,and dont find it a problem.surely theres more important things to worry about.
peter cherry:
whats this problem that people have got about wearing H&S equipment.i wear safety boots ,hi vis vest,gloves,and dont find it a problem.surely theres more important things to worry about.
er sorry folks ,computer error or more likely operator problems.sending 3 messages instead of 1.
Don’t have a problem wearing a hi-viz.
I work on the basis that if I don’t wear one and get hit when unloading roadside, then contributory negligence might reduce a compensation award!
I think the UK should follow the Europeans and make certain equipment compulsory for all vehicles — triangle, first aid kit, fire extinguisher and spare bulb kit. And I’d go a step further so at least one hi viz waist coat (different colour to the emergency services) is carried and make it compulsory for the driver to wear it if stopped on the hard shoulder, broken down etc.
Some of the H&S regs are pretty “nanny state”, but some are common sense.
I dont see how a hi vis vest will save your life. Was at TNT northampton the other week wandering down to the toilet without hi vis vest on.
Jobsworth ‘WHERES YOUR HI VIS’
Me ‘Don’t have one lost it’
Jobsworth ’ DONT CARE GET OFF SITE IF YOUR NOT WEARING ONE’
Me’but only going to toilet’ bearing in mind at this point I was on the pavement
’ DONT CARE NO VEST GET OFF SITE’
Me ‘but i don’t have a vest’
‘ASK SECURITY FOR ONE’
Me ‘OH do they have spares’
Jobsworth’YES’
Why jobsworth could not at the begining told me to obtain one from security instead of intimidating me first.
Why he couln’t have told me this to begin with
In some countries it is law that all vehicles must have Hi-Vis vests including Cars and bikes!
Spain is one of these Countries I believe!
how do you get a motorbike to wear a hi-viz then? 
In all countries Hi Viz is compulsory for ADR trucks except the UK where we have our own set of rules. We even have a set of numbering which means nothing to anyone in other countries
I dont object to wearing safety equipment but I do object when some jobsworth who cant get a proper job tells me it is the wrong colour or design
JB:
how do you get a motorbike to wear a hi-viz then?
As my Dad lives in the Carnary Islands, He has to carry a Hi-Vis but I am sure the law is all road users have to carry them
Not sure if that includes Cyclists! 
TC:
In some countries it is law that all vehicles must have Hi-Vis vests including Cars and bikes!
Bloody hell I thought I was a large size but to get one that fits a car well that somthing else 
I don’t have a problem with wearing a Hi Vis but I DO have a problem when someone tries to ‘intimidate’ me if I don’t have it on!! I sometimes forget to put it on.
On another H&S issue … at a place I loaded today (for the third time), the security guard gives you a sheet of A4 with all the do and don’ts on it. This includes handing in your keys… not sitting in the cab while being loaded…sitting in their canteen till they call you etc etc. Today and on each of the previous two visits, I have backed on the bay, reclined my seat and had a snooze. When I notice the green light, I have pulled off and got my paperwork. Not once have I obeyed any of their ‘commands’ and not once has anyone said anything.
Then again, on another H&S issue… there is a company in Austria that insists you drop your trailer when it is being loaded!!! So you back it on the bay and drop it then they load it. Now a mate of mine, who I had met on the road and was a lovely lovely guy, was loading there. He dropped his trailer… when loaded he went to pick it up. … but he forgot to put his unit handbrake on. Obviously when he connected the airlines, the whole lot starting moving. Now no one seems to be 100% certain what happened next but my mate is now dead :o((((
He was a great guy and twice since his death I have mentioned him to drivers on the european circuit and he was known to them as well. A clue to this drivers identity is he was Welsh and worked for Tarrants International out of Cork. So Bollox to H&S!!!
I think it’s Netto at South Elmsall, last time I was in there, it was raining, so had my yellow flourescent jacket on, on arriving at the gate I was told I had to wear one of their orange waistcoats with driver written on the back.
On asking the purpose of this, I was told that a driver had been found wandering round the warehouse.
H&S not mentioned.
I objected in the extreme, reminding them that the last bunch of people who had to wear distinctive clothing like this were the Jews in the second world war.
ive tipped netto today at south elmsall. i asked the gateman if hed like me to wear a pink helmet with a flashing bulb on the top just to be ABSOLUTELY certain no-one missed me… he didnt laugh 
Dratsabasti:
I think it’s Netto at South Elmsall, last time I was in there, it was raining, so had my yellow flourescent jacket on, on arriving at the gate I was told I had to wear one of their orange waistcoats with driver written on the back.
On asking the purpose of this, I was told that a driver had been found wandering round the warehouse.
H&S not mentioned.
I objected in the extreme, reminding them that the last bunch of people who had to wear distinctive clothing like this were the Jews in the second world war.
Yes, it is Netto’s S.Elmsall. I received the same treatment and heard the same story. Maybe if they had more than one ‘ramp-lifting’-come-‘checker’ person for 30 odd bays when two thirds of them always have a tipping wagon on them then the drivers wouldn’t be wandered around the warehouse.
In fact, I need to get my act together and lose a few more dummies out of the pram as it’s been far too long since I’ve received a site ban . My ban count is pathetically still standing at 5.
LIDL (or is it Aldi?) RDC, Middleton
Fyffes, Wakefield
Freightliner, Leeds
Haulfast, Ossett (although they’ve forgotten and I’ve been in since)
Securicor Containers, Trafford Park
There might be somewhere else but I can’t think at the mo.
Cheers.
talking of ADR…mate of mine got stopped by mr plod…on his trailer was an iso tank container…he had loaded at express dairies with 22,000 ltrs of cream for europe.conversation goes like this.
plod…morning driver, just a routine check we are checking all haz chem trucks today.
mate: but i aint carrying hazardous
Plod: wheres your orange plates
mate; i dont need them
plod: why not, are you exempt
mate; no im not exempt, but the load im carrying is not hazardous
plod: can i see your paperwork
so mate shows him all the papers
Plod: wheres your haz certificate
Mate: are you some kind of idiot, im carrying cream, fresh cream for germany, and i dont need any orange plates, or haz chem certs Plod: well what happens if you rolled over, and the fire brigade turned up, how will they know what liquid your carrying.. mate; well unless they were blind (hinting at mr plod) they would see that the tank has FOODSTUFFS ONLY written on every side of the tank Plod; well ill have to look into this, off you go
have a nice day
“Do you have a Hi-viz vest driver?”
“Of course, whose would you like me to wear today? Royal Mail? BT? Norwich city council??”
I love the look on people’s faces when I turn up in one company’s vehicle, bedecked in someone else’s hi-viz. Pretty sure i have a logo hard-hat somewhere too
Having read a H&S poster the other day (I was waiting around and feeling bored), your employer is required to provide all necessary PPE free of charge. So if they make you wear it, they have to provide it.
The flip side of this is that you are required to comply with their H&S regulations.
I have just bought myself a new pair of “clacks”. 
With STEEL TOE CAPS.
Confusion to the enemy. 
Just waiting for the first one to say, “You can’t come in here with them on drive”.