After our plea for health and safety blunders, we received the following photographs from readers:

Health and safety, French-style

he roof of the three storey building was completely stripped and relaid using ladders lashed together as scaffolding with brackets holding the walking platform

I attach a photo taken in St-Valery-Sur-Somme, France, in June 2005. The roof of the three storey building was completely stripped and relaid using ladders lashed together as scaffolding with brackets holding the walking platform. One ladder was tied to a neon light fitting, the others were not tied at all. There was no kick board on the scaffold to prevent falling debris and nothing to stop pedestrians walking below. The road was between the foot of the ladders and the parked vehicles shown on the photograph. Naturally no hard hats.

Valerie Tharle, Geary and Black, Gun Hill House, Colchester

… and in St Albans

Attached is a photo of roofers at work next to our site in St Albans.


roofers at work next to our site in St Albans.


Guy Milton, senior site manager, Centrium St Albans

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