> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> >A few years ago we successfully argued that it was unnecessary for >> >volunteers >to wear life jackets to install mooring rings in the towpath at Froghall, >working several feet back from the edge of a channel barely 3ft deep, on the >grounds that nobody had ever suggested that any of the dozens of towpath >walkers >needed to take any such precautions. I don't think we'd be as likely to be >successful today. >> >> Better drowned than duffers, eh? > >In recent years when BW have been doing winter maintenance at Bosley locks >they have erected safety netting between the towpath edge and empty canal >pounds. What H & S person thought that an empty canal is more dangerous than >a full one? > >Phil >>
The same one that requires staff cleaning the sani block at Gayton Junc to wear life jackets ?? Sue nb Nackered Navvy
