Insurance without tickets

[eagleye]

I admire your style mate. I've been doing this job since 81 and around about 2001 I started to hear rumours of hse cracking down and everyone had to get tickets or they wouldn't be covered in the event of something going wrong. I panicked and went out and got my tickets which was a complete and utter waste of money.

 

i recently did some work from a cherrypicker over a river and they wanted all the relevant tickets plus the 25mt swimming certificate

[Mark Bolam]

It had a good outreach then?

 

 

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[AHPP]

there are insurance companies that will cover you without tickets. however if you were to claim and incompetence/ poor work practice was the fault they may not cover you, i assume this would be the case with or without tickets

 

What I specifically want to avoid is paying for a policy which isn't worth the paper it's written on. I'm sure many insurers would be happy to sell a policy knowing full well they could wriggle out of paying. Luckily, I can read small print.

 

Your point about not paying out in the case of poor working practices is a good one and I imagine ANY insurance policy will have a clause limiting their liability if you've done something way below industry standard.

 

 

Sorry mate, what I'm meaning is, if you have some sort of incident or accident that leads to either a large insurance claim or an HSE investigation your tickets may just cover your ass and you may then feel it was money very well spent.

 

As above, I'd be happy to argue competence, working standards etc if something went wrong but I specifically want to avoid a policy which would just stick its fingers in its ears and say, "No tickets; no payout."

[AHPP]

Send this guy a email. [email protected]

 

Pretty sure when i spoke to him for myself, they did not need tickets as i aint got em either - but I only do a small amount of tree work unfortunately.

 

Thanks.

[NickinMids]

Why do you object to getting tickets if you don't mind me asking. Is it just the cost ? I can understand the frustration of having to have refreshers if your doing it all the time especially every three years.

[Hodge]

Suppose you don't have a driving licence but don't need one as you have been driving stuff on the farm for years. LOL.

[Mark Bolam]

I can count on one bollock the amount of tree jobs I've done where every single tick is in every single box re tickets and paperwork.

 

We should all strive for perfection, but we all fall short.

 

 

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[skyhuck]

Suppose you don't have a driving licence but don't need one as you have been driving stuff on the farm for years. LOL.

 

Not really the same.

[Hodge]

Not really the same.

 

 

It was said in jest;)

[AHPP]

I'd prefer to stay on topic please but I'll talk about tickets more generally after this thread has run a little longer and hopefully generated the info I'm looking for.

 

So anybody coming new to this thread, please read the opening post and maybe you can help with that.