Why do building firms insist on putting their site offices so far in the site that even if you follow the path you get moaned at for no Hard hat when all you want to do is say you’ve got a delivery 
I’m guessing most of the time they are just located wherever there is not going to be any construction or the last place for building on so they don’t have to keep moving it round site.
Exactly so. Also site offices don’t look great so they try and keep them tucked away from potential clients.
I’m lucky enough that although I deliver to a lot of sites, its to landscapers and tenants so I rarely have to visit the H&S minefield that is the site office.
F-reds:
Exactly so. Also site offices don’t look great so they try and keep them tucked away from potential clients.I’m lucky enough that although I deliver to a lot of sites, its to landscapers and tenants so I rarely have to visit the H&S minefield that is the site office.
I generally don’t as I do general haulage but some stuff is building material
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They have signs up saying “report to site office” but there’s nowhere to pull in without blocking the road. Then when you have got all your ppe on and walked up the steps to the office, there’s nobody there.
Or in the case of the really big sites, the manager is so full of his own self importance, he’ll ignore you for ten minutes or even walk straight past you. Unless you remove some of your ppe of course. 
Another thing is, why do house builders start at the front of the site, then move to the back then build in between and lastly in poxy corner plots that are impossible to access because of parked cars owned by new residents?
Lastly, why do they lay all the kerbs, paving slabs, turf etc when trucks need to drive over them to manoeuvre?
Why no hard hat? lol .
I went to factory yesterday for a simple trailer swap, ive never been before and was give wrong ind estate by office, told at gatehouse to put trailer at the back of factory unhitch drive forward from trailer and stop ,walk to managers office with no one there a few yards from gatehouse & get paperwork for other trailer that was right next to where i put mine then drive back to gatehouse stop at the line about 300 metres from gatehouse walk there show paperwork then out . I mean wtf ■■?. Next time will be a quick swap over and drive to the gatehouse and act daft which im quite good at doing lol.
Generally these days H&S say they should have a safe route from the outside to the site office because at that point you’ve not had a site induction and god help anyone who’s not had one of those.
So maybe the best bet is to park outside, blocking site traffic as much as possible to get the maximum speed of acceptance, then take the safe route to the office to announce you’ve arrived and ask if you need an induction, what PPE is required and what the procedure is for unloading since you might be blocking the entrance. Amazing how fast the paperwork gets done. 
trevHCS:
Generally these days H&S say they should have a safe route from the outside to the site office because at that point you’ve not had a site induction and god help anyone who’s not had one of those.So maybe the best bet is to park outside, blocking site traffic as much as possible to get the maximum speed of acceptance, then take the safe route to the office to announce you’ve arrived and ask if you need an induction, what PPE is required and what the procedure is for unloading since you might be blocking the entrance. Amazing how fast the paperwork gets done.
laugh and cry ffs
F-reds:
I’m lucky enough that although I deliver to a lot of sites, its to landscapers and tenants so I rarely have to visit the H&S minefield that is the site office.
lucky enough never to have visited the health and safety hell on earth that was the m25 widening between j 17 and south mimms?..
we had some heavy snow and those tossers actually (tried) to send us out topsoilling…rather than sign us off like the muckaway boys,the grabs would be there all day ,chasing round ,busy but doing eff all.i hated every second down there-■■■■■■■ balfour beatty jobsworth tossers.i was working in the central reservation one day,drivers door right up against the concrete barrier,so got out the door onto the barrier ,and stepped straight onto the catwalk of the lorry-health and safety spotted me on the cameras,and decided I couldn’t walk on the concrete barrier,i had to slide between the lorry and the barrier,walk round to the live traffic side of the lorry,and climb up,slide over to drivers side,then start work…
I was grabbing some muck from the housing development that used to be RAF Rissington on Thursday. It was from a house that was now occupied, and the owners were having their garden landscaped so although within the site,as this area was completed I wasn’t subject to their rules. Having had my five year old son with me for the day, the site staff were giving some shocked looks when they saw my son up on the back, “helping” work the grab. 
Muckaway:
I was grabbing some muck from the housing development that used to be RAF Rissington on Thursday. It was from a house that was now occupied, and the owners were having their garden landscaped so although within the site,as this area was completed I wasn’t subject to their rules. Having had my five year old son with me for the day, the site staff were giving some shocked looks when they saw my son up on the back, “helping” work the grab.
I too get this a lot. I had a site manager waving frantically at me, for reversing into a cul-de-sac at 0730 in the morning. “site doesn’t open till 0800, you’re going to ruin our Considerate Constructors rating, IMBECILE!” he shouted at me. Being the calm sort of fella I am, I just smiled sweetly blew him a kiss and reminded him I was not subject to his rules as I was delivering to a home owner, and not “his” site.
In another life I would have got out and chinned him. 
I mostly do big sites and there’s always a banksman waiting who directs you where ever he wants you
talking of “banksmen”, on that poxy m25 job I mentioned earlier,(which as you can imagine was health and safety madness )
we were on a drainage job at J22 London colney anti clock onslip,inside the barriers (veery guards)- banksmen required at all times when reversing(except when it bloody suited balfour beatty),reversing up towards the machine ,looking in the offside mirror at said banksman,he then steps out of sight behind the lorry.
when I got out and told him to stand where I could sodding see him or he could end up getting runover,he tells me that we are to use our reversing cameras to watch his signals ,as they aren’t allowed within 1.5 metres of the the veery guard!!
i tried to explain to this kamikaze merchant that that although I can see him in the camera,its not defined enough to see if his hand is waving me back or telling me to stop( in the rain aswell…)he was having none of it!!!
Any banksmen who put faith in reversing cameras are taking a big gamble; How do they know they actually work?
trevHCS:
Generally these days H&S say they should have a safe route from the outside to the site office because at that point you’ve not had a site induction and god help anyone who’s not had one of those.So maybe the best bet is to park outside, blocking site traffic as much as possible to get the maximum speed of acceptance, then take the safe route to the office to announce you’ve arrived and ask if you need an induction, what PPE is required and what the procedure is for unloading since you might be blocking the entrance. Amazing how fast the paperwork gets done.
That’s what I do where ever I go, park in the middle of the yard holding everything up. Quickest way to get tipped. Also means forklift driver must make eye contact with you even if it’s to tell you to move.
Wind farms are the worst, half way up a mountain to deliver a bag of bolts that no one wants or knows about.