Holdfast Training Services Trial Blog

Conscious that I am still to post an introductory blog to orientate you all to my site, I thought I’d waste no time in sharing this piece of ‘best practice’.  Works was stopped yesterday when I found one of the sub-contractor’s plant operators attempting to fix his slipped track in this location…

With work stopped the sub-contractor’s PM then informed his men of the dangers associated with this attempted task, and the remediation required to provide safe access.  The operator replied in true Darwin Award style, “we don’t need to do all that extra work to gain safe access – I can limp the machine out on one track”.  Needless to say, why was this not his first choice of action?

I’m amazed at the ignorance of some of the workers to the risks they seem to subject themselves to.  Whether it’s just taking the easy option or trying to complete the job quickly I’m unsure – it may be both, but why would you put yourself at risk like this.

And with that I open the floor to other Darwin Award nominations for 2017…