Clean It Up

UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Gringo on February 16, 2020, 02:47:38 pm

Title: Big fine for trad employer
Post by: Gringo on February 16, 2020, 02:47:38 pm
https://www.bailiwickexpress.com/jsy/news/window-cleaning-business-fined-10k-unsafe-working-practices/#.XklVCBinyyU
Anyone know this fella, a costly day's work
Title: Re: Big fine for trad employer
Post by: Jay Le Huray on February 17, 2020, 08:10:04 am
should have gone wfp
Title: Re: Big fine for trad employer
Post by: TomCrowther on February 17, 2020, 08:57:12 am
Really shoddy, especially as the windows open fully to allow cleaning from inside the building.
Title: Re: Big fine for trad employer
Post by: dazmond on February 17, 2020, 12:00:19 pm
never underestimate how stupid some window cleaners can be.... ;D
Title: Re: Big fine for trad employer
Post by: tonyoliver on February 17, 2020, 12:32:40 pm
Come on we have all worked like this in the past
Any old timer will laugh and joke about the risks we all took  the unlucky will tell of their accidents
10 grand is a lot of fines
Next time the custie says I don't want the brush on a stick ........
Title: Re: Big fine for trad employer
Post by: simon w on February 17, 2020, 12:34:25 pm
It was probably the favoured method of cleaning by the employees due to making the job quicker to do along with easier as not having to go inside and possibly getting slowed down by shop staff moving furniture etc and I expect the employer turned a blind eye to this for his own reasons. Not condoning what was done and I bet he now wishes he'd stuck to his later risk assessment and ensured his workers stuck to it.
Title: Re: Big fine for trad employer
Post by: dazmond on February 17, 2020, 04:51:11 pm
Quote from: tonyoliver on February 17, 2020, 12:32:40 pm
Come on we have all worked like this in the past
Any old timer will laugh and joke about the risks we all took  the unlucky will tell of their accidents
10 grand is a lot of fines
Next time the custie says I don't want the brush on a stick ........

we dont live in the 1980s anymore mate....the bonkers thing is......is that these windows could of been cleaned FROM THE INSIDE!HE EVEN HAD A KEY! ::)roll