Regarding the Building Services Awards 2003 supplement, I would like to make the following observation. The irony of the work in progress pictures associated with Balfour Kilpatrick's Health and Safety Initiative of the Year Award (page 31) does not escape me.

In the first picture the operative has his sleeves rolled up. I think that I am quite correct in saying that this is a breach of PPE regulations. Meanwhile, the second picture shows an operative carrying out wiring above a ceiling in what can only be described as a suicidal manner. The operative is leaning outwards at a dangerous angle and holding onto the ceiling grid, from a pair of steps which, quite frankly, he should not be on in the first place.

This operative obviously did not attend Balfour Kilpatrick's highly acclaimed Steps on Tour roadshow, probably turning up at the Birmingham Arena instead for a Steps concert. Now that would have been a tragedy!

Source

Electrical and Mechanical Contractor

Postscript

Kevin Cliffe, Electrical project estimator, EIC (Scotland)