> >>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 > > >And probably the same one that changed the requirements following the death >of a volunteer when working by the side of the canal on the Cotswolds Canals. >It caused the work on that canal to be suspended until working practices, >etc, had been re-examined and procedures put in place to prevent a >re-occurrence. > >DaveD
I believe it was a heart attack rather than an accident. Difficult to legislate for. Sue nb Nackered Navvy
