About 10 years ago i used to clean a construction companies office windows.Most if not all offices in ireland have one person as a designated health and safety officer and someone else as a fire safety officer (they always have a high vis vest hanging on the back of there chair)Anyway it was 2 buildings that were 3 storey in height and always done them without anyone saying a word…until they appointed another person as the health and safety officer.These idiots see this as a position of power,he came out to me insisting that i wear high vis vests,steel toe safety boots and a hard hat!!
He was told in the politest way that a high vis vest would act as a parachute if any breeze caught it all and pull me off as well as it being a risk of getting caught in a ladder…steel boots are unsafe as i wont feel my feet on the ladder properly and asked him to answer this question.If i fall off the ladder what is going to hit the ground first?Me or the hard hat??He was that thick and stubborn he said me…told him he was a gobshite and knew nothing.the hat is off my head and on the deck before i am.He tried to flex his muscles when i returned again…i was on good terms with the directors as i was also doing repair works on houses they had built.I told them in future it would be done on saturdays when he would nt be in the office as he would be at risk of having an accident!!
So it wasn’t even a construction site?
Nope just there offices for architects,admin and other staff members.
Yeah that is just plainly a guy on a power trip, or maybe he was just practicing for being on a construction site either way hard had and steel caps on a regular site is a little outrageous.
No he was just an office goon with nothing better to do!!
…Right…they wanted that too, everyone on the job had to pass a course. Too much residential to mess with that…and the pay is better…
