Rigsby
TPF Special Forces
I left a lab of mine hacking off this week on his tod and a HSE agent or bounty hunter more like pinched him for not wearing a mask or ear muffs. Don't get me wrong, I have all the ppe he needs in my truck but this lab will not wear ear muffs or masks.
So she stops him working, introduces herself and tells him to stop work immediately and slaps a prohibition notice on him. As he is an employee it is me thats going to get the fine. £130 an hour for the time it takes to do the ticking off and serve me the notice. The lab explained that I have all the ppe but he chooses not to wear them and it is him that should get the fine but no it is me that is going to get it.
He is going to pay me the money.
But I have been looking at the fee for intervention leaflet. It says under exclusions that 'Self employed people who don't put people at risk by their work". Does this mean then that if he was self employed then I would not have been pinched and he would have got off with it as he can't sue himself for lung damage?
So he could have said he was self employed? then maybe got away with it?
She also said that if there was a mask and ear muffs on the job and I had pointed this out then it would have been him that would have got the fine not me. So now I have a tupperware box on the scaffold with 3 paper masks, 6 ear plugs and 3 pairs of goggles, 3 pairs of latex gloves. They can have access to the usual supply of ppe but this box is for if I get another visit.
Anyone else been pinched and are the self employed more immune?
So she stops him working, introduces herself and tells him to stop work immediately and slaps a prohibition notice on him. As he is an employee it is me thats going to get the fine. £130 an hour for the time it takes to do the ticking off and serve me the notice. The lab explained that I have all the ppe but he chooses not to wear them and it is him that should get the fine but no it is me that is going to get it.
He is going to pay me the money.
But I have been looking at the fee for intervention leaflet. It says under exclusions that 'Self employed people who don't put people at risk by their work". Does this mean then that if he was self employed then I would not have been pinched and he would have got off with it as he can't sue himself for lung damage?
So he could have said he was self employed? then maybe got away with it?
She also said that if there was a mask and ear muffs on the job and I had pointed this out then it would have been him that would have got the fine not me. So now I have a tupperware box on the scaffold with 3 paper masks, 6 ear plugs and 3 pairs of goggles, 3 pairs of latex gloves. They can have access to the usual supply of ppe but this box is for if I get another visit.
Anyone else been pinched and are the self employed more immune?