Workmen and shoes

curlywurly82

Ich wrote: »

A least folk are blaming insurance rather than the old favourite H&S!!

it is partly health and safety, to prevent injuries if things are dropped on feet and to prevent needle nicks. Yes, our guys have found needles hidden under kitchen units behind the plinths and allsorts.

They were all equiped with overshoes though and instructed to wear them in all properties regardless of whether the customer asked someone to take there shoes off or were happy for them to be kept on.

Ich_2

but if an employer provides safety footwear which an employee choses not to wear and is injured, which the footwear could have prevented, it could be classed as contributory negligence.

It would all depend on the tasks being undertaken and the on-site risk assessment the employee undertook - which is what they should do rather than blindly follow inflexible rules!

Alan2020

I am sorry to say to all you shoe removing households, No Christmas Presents for the whole lot of you, do you really think I Santa am going to bother removing my boots and plod barefooted.... ;-)

keystone

If I visit a client's (or a potential client's) home for pricing or survey purposes I always remove my shoes on entering particularly where the household stems from a culture which would find it offensive of me not to and also those not from said cultures unless they tell me its OK. Its downright disrespectful if nothing else not to. You are a guest in their home.

When working in the property subsequently I always lay protective sheeting down from the place I am working to the front or back door or wherever I need to get to and sometimes (froma cultural perspective) its necessary to have a second pair of footwear that you change into at the door as well.

Cheers

southcoastrgi

interesting choice of words KS oh go on we all know who you are ref to,












it's the welsh isn't it

keystone

Rats - sussed! Coal dust and cream carpets have never gone together doncha know?

Otherwise generally its anybody East of about 30 degrees. This area is quite popular for PacRim banking employees that work oop toon. Americans rather like you to take your shoes off too.

Cheers

Avoriaz

Deleted_User wrote: »

i'd ask the prime minister to take his shoes off

I'd ask the prime minister to [STRIKE]take his shoes[/STRIKE] f*** off.

Avoriaz

Alan2020 wrote: »

I am sorry to say to all you shoe removing households, No Christmas Presents for the whole lot of you, do you really think I Santa am going to bother removing my boots and plod barefooted.... ;-)

As Santa comes in via the chimney, I suspect dirty shoes may be the least of the problems he brings.

keystone

Avoriaz wrote: »

I'd ask the prime minister to [STRIKE]take his shoes[/STRIKE] f*** off.

Don't you mean tell? Ask sorta loses some of the expressive impact n'est pas?

Cheers

rustyboy21

I always advise my customers to move any furniture, ornaments and anything else which may get in the way, when the guys have been organised to do the customers fireplace fit.

I also tell them to fully protect their carpets, even though the guys will bring dust sheets with them, they won't be clean and may have been used a number of times. I won't accept any liability for carpet marking if they don't do this. The amount of people who complain afterwards, to try and get their carpets cleaned is surprisingly high.

Also the amount of people, who don't move furniture and even sit in it while you work is very high. The fitters take photos of uncovered carpet or unmoved furniture, if they get the feeling they may have trouble.

I had a case which nearly got to court until the insurers pushed the fact that the stair carpet my fitters were supposed to have soiled permanently was impossible due to the fact of.

1. the fireplace was fitted on street level, they didn't need to go upstairs for anything.

2. The property was a bungalow with no dormer, therefore no stairs !

You may think tradesmen are being petty, this is the reason why.