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5thelement

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  1. A prepared and competent climber who completely ignored the Health and Safety at Work act and allowed his colleague to cut in the tree with no PPE on?
  2. The requirement and ability to be rescued is always there on any job I am on, I just put more weight and thought into self rescue than relying on others to do so, apart from being unconscious, I am confident I will get myself to the ground. How many times do you practice aerial rescue? Show us the recorded data that you have collated as evidence for your business as part of the MHSAWA.
  3. Your Aerial rescue timings might be actually something like accurate, the rest of what you are claiming sounds like bullshit.
  4. Not written anything off, just did some practice times with some very capable climbers, obviously not as good as you mind, your times must be competition grade. You’ve not supplied any data, just opinion and claiming you know of 4 recent arial rescues, let’s see your actual timings for your practice rescues instead. Arterial bleeds from thigh cuts, where these guys not wearing PPE then?
  5. Thankfully I only work with very experienced colleagues. I’ve been climbing nearly 30 years, some guys I work with have more time under their belt, so 2 BBQ’s a year aren't really going to improve this. When we used to practice aerial rescue, the times would vary from around 6 minutes to double that, too long, I could apply a tourniquet and be down with the squad first aid kit in under a minute in most cases. Its up to you to do what you think is right, I’ve worked out what’s the best for me. For the guys who are practicing arial rescue regularly, let’s see some photos of the trees next time, with timings for each rescue, let’s see the data rather than opinion and we can make our own minds up on its importance.
  6. Why where these climbers not equipped to stop an arterial bleed themselves and get themselves to the ground? Rather than relying on a person on the ground to get set up and rescue them (how long does this take in reality), slower than the time it takes for catastrophic blood loss from an arterial bleed in nearly all cases?
  7. I have always had a healthy fear of heights, which got a little keener just after my first child was born. I’m quite happy tied in with rope and harness, but put me on a ladder at gutter height, and I’m shaking like a shitting whippet.
  8. There are several there that are very vague in detail to say the least, where any these people doing someone a favour, working for payment or not? So a non working member of the public has been added to the HSE statistics, thats fact. Wether or not this happened on Council land isn’t stated, If so, the council would have had to report the death to RIDDOR anyway, not feel “obliged”too ask the HSE to investigate.
  9. There are several case studies there where people are described as “self employed” or “contracting” when they are obviously people having a pop at tree work, if they aren’t being paid (reward) they aren’t at work, no ropes, no harnesses, working from ladders, really. One 85 year old member of the public was killed in a tree felling incident with his family collecting firewood, how is he not a member of the public? or has been deemed to be working? yet they still make it into the statistics.
  10. I agree, but to have proper apprenticeships you would have to have regulation in place so the apprentice can be trained properly and meet a given criteria, how and who is going to conduct this?
  11. When I did my RFS at Reasheath College back in the 90’s, I had excellent training/tuition, it gave me the grounding to keep myself safe and efficient since then. So your proposing no training, no assessments, no HSE? How will this benefit the industry as a whole then?
  12. It’s been the dream for our entire careers, unfortunately it’s just a dream and will never happen, sadly.
  13. Not all injuries are serious enough to need reporting to Riddor and not all serious injuries and near misses get reported either, otherwise the the HSE would have very accurate numbers, apart from fatalities, they haven’t. How many gardeners, builders have a go tree surgeons are currently doing tree work under the radar in the UK do you reckon, are these people being injured and reporting to RIDDOR?
  14. How are they separated out then, do you show the nurse your tickets?
  15. And folk have given you their opinion based on their experience and work practices, what more do you want?
  16. That’s because all injuries a lumped into one wether it’s a homeowner on a ladder, travelling wilbury or professional, anyway HSE and the AA have already covered that for you and produced TG1 for you to then ignore. One thing to consider, after nearly 30 years in this industry I have never heard anyone say, “Thank good for fat Pat the groundy who’s dexterity and speed putting in his harness and accessing the tree saved my life”.
  17. Let’s see next week then 👍 Dan Maynard has just stated he doesn’t climb on two ropes everyday or do aerial rescue every six months, thats the general view of TG1.
  18. I’d be interested in the data showing the numbers of fatalities that could have been avoided through aerial rescue practice too.
  19. And you got your answer, the vast majority of UK Arb firms don’t conduct regular Aerial Rescue Training despite what the AA and TG1 states, and no one on here has come out and stated that they do them as a matter of course either, seems pretty conclusive.
  20. You are now becoming tediously boring, especially with this whataboutery. No one is going to do it the way YOU want, it’s been the same for the last 30 years, despite TG1, end of.
  21. Scots pine is pretty good at dealing with drought conditions, and respond well in the following growth seasons.
  22. Surely hardly anyone gets their aerial rescue just to remain a groundy? Most people with climbing tickets are climbers and should be climbing most days, or at least regularly. Unless you are seriously injured you will get yourself down quicker than any rescue attempt, fact. Have you ever timed a rescue from a decent height? Forget it, self rescue is what you should be equipped to do, and you should think about possible descents as part of your work plan in the tree. The vast majority of Arb teams in the UK aren’t working to, and couldn’t give a toss what is written in TG1, you do realise this, right?
  23. Send a sample to Alice Holt for analysis.
  24. So you ask that question, they say “last week”… are you going to demand written proof or get up that tree you are being paid to dismantle?
  25. The implications are obvious, same as knowingly allowing your employees to work on one rope. Your Insurance will use it as an excuse not to pay out and HSE will use it as a lever in any court action. All any employer has to do as part of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Act is to run regular refreshers/updates/training days, call them what you want. No trainer has to be there, no course fees, training can be done ‘in house’ and recorded on the back of a fag packet if need be, it’s not hard.

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