Kier gets on its bike to speed up repairs

“I thought I saw on the tv that Yes Prime Minister was returning. Now I know who the new writers are.”

“nHere we go again, Kier bashing. What these comments do prove, along with comments made by Mr Conway, how out of touch they are in today's workplace of big companies such as these. Health and Safety regulation is law in the workplace. The company has a duty of care to it's employees, as the case of employee to employee being the same. In most jobs to be done there would be a safe working procedure/ practice and it would have been evaluated/ accessed. WHY? To stop injuries, serious injuries and fatalities. That is unless you do not care about the workers health and well-being. Should there be a serious injury to employee, the Health and Safety Executive will be brought in, and an investigation will take place on the causes and who was at fault, if anyone. But the likely outcome of the investigation will be that new working practices will be put into place. To protect the workforce and trying to stop the cause of the accident repeating again. As with the ladder situation and scaffold. Figures for 2011-12, 1,1 million people suffering from work related illness.
173 workers killed at work. 111,000 other injuries reported. 212,000 over 3 day absences occurred. 27 million working days lost, costing an estimated £13,4 billion in 2010/11. Included in those figures, 22,433 major injuries such as amputations,fractures and burns to employees were reported- a rate of 89,90 injuries per 100,000 workers. The year previous 24,944 workers suffering major injuries. Just think, how many of these people and their families, it has totally changed their lives for the worst. Going back 10 years ago, 2001/02, the fatality figure was approx 300 killed at work. during that time figures showing a steady decline. Why? Health and Safety. While we may not like it, sometimes leaving the workers frustrated. it is there for our own protection. Sometimes to protect ourselves from our self. Would you like someone to come knock on your door with bad news. Would it make you feel any better, knowing it could have been avoided. Do you have any thought for others peoples safety, or is it about me, me, me. I don't care how you do it. but i want it doing now. Mr Conway, bungalow/ ladders/ health and safety, for someone being on the Standards Committee, and making sure that standards are maintained, this is the same thing and he should be supporting it, standards in working practice/procedure. Unless he or anyone else would like to put it in writing they can ignore Health and Safety and the safe working procedures. Implications being, should anything go wrong, YOU WILL BE LIABLE. Should the workers ignore these procedures , even if nothing happens, should they get spotted it will leave them open to a disciplinary procedure, possibly the sack, depending how bad on what could have happened. Verbal, written, suspension. Should someone tell you to do something else, going against Health and Safety, manager for instance, the company may well leave him out to dry, he will be liable. That's if you are stupid enough to do what you are being told to do, knowing you are breaking health and safety, the law in the workplace.As regarding the flat situation, They have got that totally correct, if you think these companies are going to do work for which a complaint has not been made, and regarding any Health and Safety issues, you are living in a dreamland, it is only because the council are paying the
bill you want them to do more. If it was your own money, you would be taking a different view. They can't just go out and please themselves to just add on work as they please. There is a complaints procedure to follow, for you and other tenants to follow should you need repairs/maintenance. What if they did the work and the council would not reimburse there money back for work done. would you pay them? As for sitting about, unless these people are going to drive around in a HGV to carry every part they might need. they don't know, till they get there.”

“I live in a flat which I purchased privately so Stoke-on-Trent council is the Leaseholder. I reported that the gutters were blocked and they were here within the week, along with their cherry picker. Well only half a job was done, two men attended they cleaned my side front and back of the building which left the side and the complete other half of the flats. When they told me they couldn't do the side, I asked what about a ladder, the response was health and safety. I also asked about the other half of the building only to be told well they will have to report it, I asked at the time of reporting, ALL the building needs doing as I don't think it has ever been cleaned and the drains keep getting blocked. So now its as bad as before muck just keeps falling every time it rains, gutters get blocked and all the muck gets carried in to your home (Only when people don't remove their shoes). So can anyone tell me why isn't there anyone at the council reviewing what Kier do for their over priced jobs.”

“This is just a publicity stunt by Kier and the council. If they really wanted to save money then they should employ someone to drive around and take the names of all the staff that are doing nothing, and sack them. Theres plenty of them. Its any excuse not to do a job with alot of them, or find a nice quiet place to park up and read the paper, with the engine running of course ( reducing their carbon footprint, I think not ) Using a profit making company in the first place to carry out work that is paid for by tax payers is laughable to start with in my view”