Philip Hanson is skilled in these issues. He is skilled in how to present them. He also has business interests into how wfp should be presented.
I am not critisizing the bloke in away way but business is business and his business is wfp.
Just get the facts direct from the H & S direct and go by what they say instead.
Slipping over on wet decking being used as an example as opposed to falling from a ladder is not really valid. What is valid is the fact that you cannot fall from a ladder if the job is being done with wfp.
Somehow now, deaths and injuries from ladder are common place and happen everytime someone goes up a ladder or so it seems.
I have never ever not once disputed the safety of wfp as opposed to using a ladder. Not ever and not once.
My point was that ladders are not banned. They are not illegal or anything else.
Without sounding rude, it's best to find out what the law is first from those who enforce it.
True; If the people charged with enforcing it, ever get round to applying it.
On what basis do you say that? What is the source of your information? How can you back that fact up? Who have you got written statements from? What statistics have you got to support that and who compiled them? Were those facts industry standard surveys? What were the sampling rates and so on?
Also, IF a job can be done from the ground then it should be done so. Again define 'can be done from the ground'? That could mean just getting a hose and spraying water and saying that is the job done. It's a question of defining what is the job to be done and to what standard and what standard the customer expects according to what is the accepted existing standard.
I go back to my original point of ask the H & S. It's simple. It's so straight forwards that I am amazed that more have not done that already and if you are not happy that person knows about the WAHL's, then go further up the H & S ladder untill you get an answer from someone who is an authority.
Apart from that - I'll never ever go up a 3 extention ladder again whether it's legal or not. I'll go up a 2 extention A frame only if I'm happy about it. any doubt and I won't. My ladder days in that sense are over.
Cheers
