Sky Engineers ?

[White Noise]

I watched as a Sky TV Engineer pulled up next to this mornings job . He put on his harness , hard hat and goggles . Then removed the ladders from the ladder rack and fixed his safety line to them . He then placed the ladders against the wall and proceeded to drill a fixing to the wall so he could attach a ratchet system from the ladders to the wall . So the ladder would not slip away from him .When all this was done he clipped into his safety line and advanced all the way up the ladders to the final working height of 13ft . Has the world gone mad ? Red tape or just company protocol ? Oh after all that he was done up the ladder in under 5 mins

 

 

No disrespect intended to anyone . Just seems all a tad OTT .

[Martyn Amos]

to work for sky you now need cs38......

[White Noise]

to work for sky you now need cs38......

 

:lol:

[mikecotterill]

Aren't ladders the biggest cause of accidents?

[VEG]

Had this happen at my house but the guy said I will drill the hole but wont use it, I told him if you are drilling a hole in my wall you are using it mate lol

Edited March 2, 2012 by Steve Bullman
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[hazzygawa]

I looked into becoming a sky man. And you will loose your job and your team in the area are fined if you don't carry all h and s out to the word. this is what I have been told.

[Pedroski]

Aren't ladders the biggest cause of accidents?

 

Never known a ladder to cause an accident.

 

Similarly, never known a chainsaw to cause an accident, but lots of people do have accidents when using them.

Edited March 1, 2012 by Pedroski

[Pedroski]

I watched as a Sky TV Engineer pulled up next to this mornings job . He put on his harness , hard hat and goggles . Then removed the ladders from the ladder rack and fixed his safety line to them . He then placed the ladders against the wall and proceeded to drill a fixing to the wall so he could attach a ratchet system from the ladders to the wall . So the ladder would not slip away from him .When all this was done he clipped into his safety line and advanced all the way up the ladders to the final working height of 13ft . Has the world gone mad ? Red tape or just company protocol ? Oh after all that he was done up the ladder in under 5 mins

 

 

No disrespect intended to anyone . Just seems all a tad OTT .

 

Thing is, if a homeowner climbs a ladder to fit something, the chances are he'll only do it once and will get down and be ok with no incident. But if someone if up and down ladders all day on different jobs, then they only need to have one fall out of hundreds or maybe thousands of climbs to suffer a life changing injury. So while it may seem OTT and like H&S gone mad, there is a point to it. 13ft ain't much but it's enough to break yer back or neck.

 

And also, it ain't easy working at top of a ladder against a wall, drilling holes in the right place for sat dish brackets, then holding the bracket and securing it and then securing dish to bracket, all with either one hand or no hands on the ladder.

 

Bit different with window cleaning where you're not trying to do a job that needs two hands.

[White Noise]

Safety first guy's I just can't get me head round the fact that the way the ladders were attached to the wall ? If the sky man fell the ladders would of gone over to ? Unless he hadn't tied them properly to start with ?

[alex_m]

When I wanted to get sky in my first floor flat, they had to send an outside contractor to install it, as they aren't allowed to climb stairs as its a h&s risk. I think the bloke said they had to have three points of contact at all times when climbing stairs, therefore they couldn't carry any equipment! Had to laugh. I'm guessing it's all to do with the ridiculous compensation culture at the moment.