I work on the motorways – I used to wear a short sleeved hi-viz vest, hard hat, shorts and riggers in summer. If I wanted to get to the other side of the M1, I legged it across 6 lanes. Occassionally, I may have had a cheeky spliff at lunchtime. And what was a risk assessment?
Now, I wear head to toe hi-viz, flame retardant overalls, gloves, glasses, no riggers (that’s probably not a bad thing). If I even look at a traffic cone, never mind set foot outside one, I’ll probably be off site. I can’t even have a cheeky spliff in my own time at weekends, as I’m always facing the prospect of a drugs test. I hear next week, they are risk assessing taking a dump.
A lot of the work I do is for a major construction company – they have banned the use of Stanley knives – this is a real PITA being a sparky working with armoured cables.