Watching a steeplejack company's
presentation and promotional video which included their practices
regarding safety systems, in one part a steeplejack is climbing the
ladders hooking a safety harness then moving up a rung clicking again
to the other side, 'what is that?'
I think it's ridiculous and also
fall arrest systems these all protect when laddering the chimney and
traversing the ladders, yet when I spent over twelve years in the industry, my grandfather and father with over sixty years in the
industry free climbing, nobody fell from climbing or erecting the
ladders.
Okay prevention is better than cure
and reducing the level of risk by any means, but not when that
hinders the worker, surely other solutions should be sort.
Installing these systems after the
ladders have been erected seems like closing the gate after the horse
has bolted
As for the rest of the systems they
looked spot on and shows how far the industry has come. I've always
thought and said that the steeplejack industry was a head in regards
to risk assessment in my day it just lacked the documentation.
I've written an article on Squidoo
about my life as a Steeplejack it touches on a small part with a few
anecdotes and some of my favourite videos.
Su altitud en la
vida depende de su actitud en la vida
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