Jenson Button:
The problem for me is this:-
One of your lads does a DCPC course on a Tuesday… he then turns up for night shift and starts telling me what he has done, etc… - I send him home as I am not happy to send a bloke out who as been awake since 7am and sitting in a classroom from 8 till 4pm… phones for an agency bloke… he comes in to do a shift - find out next morn he had been on the same course as our lad !
Now god forbid the agency bloke had had an accident, or I had sent our lad out knowing he had been up all day - would i be facing the coroner to explain why I had allowed an employee to drive for us ?
I accept that he could have been doing some other educational course i.e open uni, or bricklaying… but you seam to be between a rock and a hard place as an employer- but seeing that the driver would have his hours recorded for his attendance would make it pretty easy to find out what he had, or had not been doing.
There is a difference though, you knew your driver had been on a course all day, you did something about it, and I would expect that an agency would send you someone fresh and ready to do a full shift.
The Coroner would probably agree with me.
with regard to the above …eg a man is on shift work ,starting mon night shift. the chances are he may have had a hour or so kip mon evening before starting work but he wont have had a nights (days) sleep untill he turned up for tue night shift. whats the difference between spending monday (his day off) gardening, and spending it in a classroom?? not argueing a point here i just dont see the difference
syramax:
with regard to the above …eg a man is on shift work ,starting mon night shift. the chances are he may have had a hour or so kip mon evening before starting work but he wont have had a nights (days) sleep untill he turned up for tue night shift. whats the difference between spending monday (his day off) gardening, and spending it in a classroom?? not argueing a point here i just dont see the difference
Tis the way of the world, and the law is an ■■■.
The argument in court would probably be, were you aware that driver A had been on a training course?
YES I sent him on it.
Were you aware that driver b had been laying paving slabs at his grannies?
No Sir. I was not.
Both drivers are tired, but you are only aware of Driver A’s activity on Monday.
If either driver was the subject of an inquest, than Jenson could maybe breathe a sigh of relief if Driver B was the reason.
The end result is the same but the reasons it happened is not 