Ho why oh why is TFL or FORS or EU ( rolling this or that out )…some silly idea dreamed up by a p…who has not not eared a penny in haulage .
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Why oh why oh why do the shop fitters working in my local Tesco store wear full PPE including hard hats when all they’re doing is putting up new display racks none of which are above head height, and to make them look even sillier there’s staff and customers walking around the area without any PPE whatsoever
Just got shown this post by a mate, so go on then, I’ll bite. There’s good reasons.
The “on paper” reason: Management tick all of their Health and Safety boxes by insisting staff wear hard hat, hi-viz, gloves, toecaps, eye protection, earplugs and a kevlar codpeice for anything that gets a risk assessment done (knocking beams in, hanging stock on a hook, stirring tea). And yes, I know, if what I’m doing really is that risky, shouldn’t they buy me some cordons to keep the customers out of the area? Any chance of electrified ones?
The unofficial reasons:
You know how alert, vigilant and attentive the great British public isn’t when they’re behind the wheel of a car? They’re just as bad at walking. They will push a trolley straight into anything, whether it’s breathing or not, or carrying a large mallet or not.
Because if they don’t slam a trolley into me, they will stand as close as possible to me, especially if I’m holding something heavy, or applying said mallet repeatedly in an emotional manner to something that really doesn’t fit properly.
Because once I’ve finished doing a task that needs PPE, if I put it, or any of my tools down, either a member of the great British public will nick off with it, or one of the store staff will either ■■■■ around with it, or tidy it a away.
No, I don’t work here, so I don’t know where the cous cous is, I don’t think I even really know what it is, nor do I really care - try asking someone in the retailers uniform… it’s not bright yellow.
I’m 200 miles away from home, none of my mates are likely to see me, so I don’t really care if I look like a ■■■■.
If you can see me down the length of the shop, it proves I’m not skiving off somewhere.
Because I’m only wearing a hi-viz jacket while I’m waiting to have my low-viz jacket delivered. It’s similar to a highviz jacket, but has a set of shelves printed on, so you can’t see me skiving off.
Christ. Calm down dear x
Some crook, maybe in a film, once said that if you want to be invisible on the street, wear a High Viz Vest and carry a clipboard.
This is quite funny: buglondon.co.uk/post/the-sec … BUn8_krKUk
As Kevin Braddock writes, ‘Despite being the most visually conspicuous people on the street, people wearing high-visibility clothes are often almost invisible. Cool clothes, suits, trainers, haircuts – the stuff of high-street style – all make big visual statements about who you are. Hi-viz clothes, on the other hand, just say ‘I am a Person doing A Job.’ And that’s it.’
I saw a guy at a msa get out of his cab without a high viz on only to put it on before walking over to the services 
red7jase:
I saw a guy at a msa get out of his cab without a high viz on only to put it on before walking over to the services
I sometimes keep it on as the HGV bit is always the other side of the car in / out lane and some of them car drivers seem to think its a blinking racetrack.
Plus dont want to be squashed by any of those artics esp when they see i’m just driving an oversized “van” and taking up space in their class 1 parking area (i see you glaring from your cabs). 
trevHCS:
red7jase:
I saw a guy at a msa get out of his cab without a high viz on only to put it on before walking over to the servicesI sometimes keep it on as the HGV bit is always the other side of the car in / out lane and some of them car drivers seem to think its a blinking racetrack.
Plus dont want to be squashed by any of those artics esp when they see i’m just driving an oversized “van” and taking up space in their class 1 parking area (i see you glaring from your cabs).
guy I spoke to some years back parked his transit van in a hgv space in someones yard,it was pointed out that he wasn’t allowed to
park there as it wasn’t an hgv,really, he replied,you try lifting it,cracked me up,good answer
Sitting eating in services I agree, unless it’s an item of hi viz clothing such as a coat or fleece and they don’t have a non high cuz alternative to put on. If it’s just your standard flimsy high viz vest then at services take it off for crying out loud.
As for driving, it depends. If I’m doing multi drops and I know that for next hour or so I’m going to be in and out of the truck and walking on the road etc then I leave it on for the duration.
If I’m driving for the next 4 hours solid then it comes off.
Santa:
Some crook, maybe in a film, once said that if you want to be invisible on the street, wear a High Viz Vest and carry a clipboard.This is quite funny: buglondon.co.uk/post/the-sec … BUn8_krKUk
As Kevin Braddock writes, ‘Despite being the most visually conspicuous people on the street, people wearing high-visibility clothes are often almost invisible. Cool clothes, suits, trainers, haircuts – the stuff of high-street style – all make big visual statements about who you are. Hi-viz clothes, on the other hand, just say ‘I am a Person doing A Job.’ And that’s it.’
isnt this now becoming aproblem now tho EVERYONE is wearing hi viz on site even when they dont realey need to even dorris from accounts walking along a walking route between building has to wear one and its reaching overkill where they are all just blending into an amourphous anonymous dayglow mess so much so that you do not react ? bit like driving around thedepot with your fourways on one truck yes but several plus shunters and suddenly you dont stand out anymore
Why oh why do planners watch me going for a coffee? 
eagerbeaver:
Why oh why do planners watch me going for a coffee?
If you can afford Costa they are paying you too much. A pint is cheaper, more fun and also part of your five a day. Get with the program dude!
the maoster:
eagerbeaver:
Why oh why do planners watch me going for a coffee?If you can afford Costa they are paying you too much. A pint is cheaper, more fun and also part of your five a day. Get with the program dude!
Amen to that Brother.
Well, apart from them paying too much.
Well, every other week anyway. … 
Santa:
Some crook, maybe in a film, once said that if you want to be invisible on the street, wear a High Viz Vest and carry a clipboard.This is quite funny: buglondon.co.uk/post/the-sec … BUn8_krKUk
As Kevin Braddock writes, ‘Despite being the most visually conspicuous people on the street, people wearing high-visibility clothes are often almost invisible. Cool clothes, suits, trainers, haircuts – the stuff of high-street style – all make big visual statements about who you are. Hi-viz clothes, on the other hand, just say ‘I am a Person doing A Job.’ And that’s it.’
which is why the diddycoy macodougalls drive around in the aul transit van wearing hi viz jackets when there out on the rob…they always think it makes them invisible and not look like thieving gypjops.
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