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got to agree dave iv never had any climbing/rigging kit fail & i dont know any one that has,

Rob, Please, are you kidding me!, they out lawed common sense a long time ago over here, Have a nice weekend.
easy-lift guy

I had a client bang on about my risk assessments etc etc a few weeks ago, I ended up telling the ''jobs worth'' I think it would be better if he found another contractor as I can't be arsed with your stupid requests!

Listen up guys, as far a LOLER goes the LO is for lifting opperations, it's not all about you, its not even about arboriculture, it covers all indutries and is way bigger than our little corner of ropes and harnesses.

Do they have risk assessments in the USA

I can see the point of loler. A trained eye physically checking lifting gear has a point in safe guarding your life. What annoys me is a geek with a clip board and no experience of what you have been trained in and fine tuned over many years demanding you write down pigeon fashion your intended actions on site. Sometimes it feels like they are compiling a manual for a low paid idiot with poor grasp of english to try and follow. The idea that H&S is a european thing goes out the window when you see builders in flip flops using sticks for scaffolding around the med. H&S really got going during the labour government time could this have been their new trade union idea to slow the country down to a crawl.

I know of a Botex crane that snapped and fell of the forwarder 2 weeks after it passed its annual LOLER inspection.

Lee, TBH I am not sure but we have our own version of H-S over here called OSHA, Pro and cons for this government program. I will leave it at that.
easy-lift guy

I'v had it with them, there will come a point when we can't even go up the trees.

From what Arborists in the States have told me you don't have a quarter of the government intervention that we have................TBH our government the ''EU'' doesn't really want small businesses, so they put hurdles up, most small company's' can't afford a full time ''jobs worth/health and safety officer like the big boys, so it either hurts us financially or we loose the job.