Health And Safety Law

[bednobs]

having the great (mis) fortune to have a construction health and safety professional in the family, we can't watch programs like "grand designs" without enormous shouting and cries of "where's your edge protection...?"
what i wanted to know though, was if the builders are doing blatantly dangerous things, and it's recorded for the program but no-one gets injured, could the H+s executive retrospectively prosecute someone after the prog was shown?

[DJHawkes]

my bloke now has his black card and he's a nightmare, just the same he's nothing much good to say about the H & S exec cos he says it's all more about getting eejits in work ,

[Peter Pedant]

yes is the short answer

or you could complain yourself

various agencies trawl thro the progz gathering evidence
benefits investigators pay themselvr to watch lotto programmes
because the winnings have to be declared

[bednobs]

do you know if they ever have mr pedant?

[Peter Pedant]

The one I was thinking of - - is this busy Manchester family

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/all-about/dale-cregan

who has kept the printing presses rolling

the incident was that a side-member had been filmed receiving a post code lotto win and then was in court on benefits fraud
but as you can see if you access it - I cant quite locate it amongst all the detail

[Peter Pedant]

this is kinda it

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/468362/Lotto-winner-was-a-benefits-cheat

but I was definitely thinking of the ad where they carry in a huge card board cheque for £20k - cue grossly overweight women screaming -
and then finding one lucky winnerwas on benefits.... In Droylsden - cue court case

[Peter Pedant]

and all sorts of other nasty things can happen to lotto winners and do !
http://www.moneymatters360.com/index.php/why-winning-the-lottery-can-be-a-financial-disaster-2933/

[hc4361]

I thought prosecutions under H&S laws occurred only if employers did not provide the correct safety equipment or made their employees work in ways that against the H&S rules. I thought it is the employers that get prosecuted, not the employees.

As a home owner I could not be prosecuted if I repair my guttering by standing on the roof barefoot in a thunderstorm with no safety gear. If I was an employer and forced my employee to do that, I could be prosecuted.

[bednobs]

quite often in grand designs, the people are not building it themselves (they may be project managing but not doing the labour)