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gregotyn

Joined: 24 Jun 2010
Posts: 2201
Location: Llanfyllin area

Posted: Sat Jul 12, 14 10:14 am Post subject:
At the end of all this, pigs are the answer- they clear the lot and you have a blank "canvass" oops-garden to design and build for yourself and you get to eat the tools of clearance!

Lorrainelovesplants

Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Posts: 6521
Location: Dordogne

Posted: Sat Jul 12, 14 12:10 pm Post subject:
employers liability also covers students and volunteers 'working' in your business/premises. And the H&SE have a duty of care to ALL including visitors - this is why you have to display your insurance cert in areas accessible to the public.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15998

Posted: Sat Jul 12, 14 7:04 pm Post subject:

As far as I understand it, we can use the flail head on our own land if it is not within danger distance of any land the public or anyone else can use if we use it as private individuals effectively at out own risk. As we know of the dangers, we would be expected to ensure nobody else was in the danger area or we could be guilty both morally and legally of negligence in case of an accident. If we use it as a company, even on our own land, we could be liable if any damage or injury is done and our public liability insurance might not be valid as HSE has decreed it is dangerous, and HSE would jump all over us. Having read about the accident, it seems the people involved were doing everything wrong, and the flail head was badly worn. Unfortunately HSE took the view that the brush cutter was not manufactured with the flail head as a standard part, therefore the flail head is 'banned'. I don't know what they did to the company involved in the accident, but if I had been the HSE officer, I would have thrown the book at them, as they were using unsafe working practise with even a strimmer head.

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