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The legal issue would be more to do with him avoiding employign someoen properly. Just to confirm, how many days a week do you do for him? And how many other companies do you carry out this surveying work for? I'm guessing the answer is five and none respectively? Yes they sub out 60% of their work to smaller independant businesses like mine. We worked for 7 months with me surveying for my team. I am not Authorised to carry out any of the work I have been doing but have up to UA2.3. I have been trying to get on a UA5 since May and did 3 months surveying prior to this. I'd like to take legal action just want to know if its right . Utility Career looks over anyway.

paid for everthing meself; just never was able to do ua5 here due to lack of trainers.

[ How do you get away without being authorised? do you lot never get audited? Things are very slack here! Truth is I run a small biz. Prior to Jan 2010 I knew nowt about Utility. We we thrown work like it was going out of fashion until mid year invested and had the plug pulled by the contractor for various reasons - none to do with our performance. I have invested in order to attain best practice as is my remit as a boss of small company and that investment has been squandered. I'm pretty cheesed off that NO and Contractor have profitted from sending us to work without the correct Authorisations and no UA5 and may take legal action hence my questions. It seems to be against their CoP and Hand S act and i'm not the type that takes that lying down. I'm not really the type to sue either but needs must when you've just been scraped off some big wigs shoe.

Yep. So have I been working illegally or not?

The RA was done (obviously it was wrong), G55/2 has only just been adopted by the NO and all paperwork is to G55/1 still. My question is really that should I have been doing the work in the first place. I was live cutting all year with no authorisation by NO either although I had passed LVOH. My Contractor never put me forward for training either despite requests. Is this illegal or just not best practice? I think its wrong that major companies take advantage of inexperienced people and don't follow their own codes of practice.

Yes should have been shut down but I couldnt see the line properly and couldnt gain access. It looked definately workable from the angles I could see but... I'm gutted obviously but feel my employer has put me in this position without the right training. Ive been asking for a UA5 all 2010 - I thought it was illegil but is there a difference between whats best practice and whats legil?

I was carrying out surveys for veg cutting on the power lines using the NO RA forms. The lads blew a fuse because I couldnt/didnt get good enough access to the rear of the property (I would have had to climb fences etc) to see that a twig had pushed the lines together by 2cm apart

Hello everybody . My boss (I sub) has been sending me out surveying power lines recently which I really like but cant get me on a UA5 course (I been doing it 7 months now). The other day some of the lads blew a fuse on LV and now they are blaming me that I didnt survey the line properly and they could have been killed. I'm worried that I'll be made responsible if anything happens but I feel that I should have been trained by now. The NO did sit us on an internal course recently but i was already working for 4 months by then. Is this illegal and what can I do? I looked at all the H&S policies and it dont seem right but I'm worried that if I say anything i'll loose my job. Any advice?