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Health and Safety - Hedge Cutting with a Difference!

2/12/2013

 
A friend has just included me in an email regarding some work he witnessed being done yesterday at his local sports club.  They were having a jobs day and had a long list of tasks to accomplish.  At some point a member of the club decided that he didn't want to do the jobs which were on the list and within a short while he was busy, cutting a large leylandii hedge.  Not just cutting it with shears but with a petrol powered hedge cutter.  Not content to stand on the ground he had managed to get a plank to stand on, which was resting on a small box trailer.  He was, helpfully, being watched by another member, who was holding the plank. 

It never ceases to amaze me how little people engage brains when faced with tasks - a simple risk assessment would have shown how daft the approach was.  Luckily those involved and those in the vicinity remained safe but hey, it could have been a close run thing.  My friend was as aghast as I was, but I guess that this sort of thing was going on all over the country this weekend and fervently hope that anyone who took such risks managed to survive in one piece.

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