Dads army......

Was an interesting surveying day. Well part surveying day as I have finally been caught up in the work place safety net and spent 3 hours over the weekend attaining my white card on line, then another 4 hours on site induction...

For the last 40 years no one worried and in recent years I am on and off a site before the site is animated into work place safety.

No doubt many of you who regularly work on construction sites are well practiced in the discipline of work place safety.

For a party of one I have survived because of my wits doing every thing that now is formally committed to paper and tests. I guess growing through the era of implementation because it was decided that most are incapable of thinking for themselves. Sad in one respect, but in reality great for every one's overall safety.

I will not bore you with the non compliance safety issues casually observed on the way to and returning from an induction. Yes, I see the need on a work site for a safe place. But when there is on site blindness I have to scratch one's head in amazement on implementation.

Any rate I mentioned Dads Army..... The site engineer, I would suggest just out of nappy rash accompanied the consulting engineer who had requested "his " surveyor, because of a 30 year professional association to gather that critical data on the site instruction tour . Average age of said engineer and surveyor plus 68.....and I was the 64 year old.

I guess I am pleasantly relieved that there still is a need for we old pharts in this whiz bang era.

RADU