He has no choice regarding your safety as should be but he does have the choice to exercise reasonableness, commonsense, pragmatism. by doing an assessment, the problem for him occurs when he is unable to guarantee your safety unless you comply in this case with the wearing of hard hats. It seems to me to be a case of two different viewpoints on the safety of this particular site as I said before if you could show him that his assessment has been done wrong and show him a guarantee that you would NOT come to harm then both you and he would have covered your responsibilities under Law.I'm saying that Elfin Safety legislation is but one part of the blame culture that surrounds us, with no one taking responsibility for their own actions and decisions. That's why we have this complete and utter tosh foisted upon us, which does little in the way of *really* reducing accident rates and merely creates an audit trail for a mahoosif a*se-covering exercise, in the event that something happens.
Now I know why you are so anti H&S, you think it's a game, got caught playing silly beggars and you got told off.
I just hate being told I *must* do something, when there's no real reason for it, other than it being "the rules". I don't step: I trip about, very daintily in my Dickies; almost a light fandango, you could say.That's the spirit
Ah but the same applies to the scaffolder had he not stopped to put on his also then that cancels the other out
both of which can get you into a lot of trouble unless you take precautions.
