..
line!

Quite. Daughters ex is a Tree Surgeon and now Arb Trainer and did some
work with / for BR. All the stuff you read about re what they require
(as this wasn't actually anywhere near the line / HV cables) was true.
Safety meetings with all involved at the beginning of the day / shift
/ job, the right colour and type of HiViz to be worn at all times, the
correct grade of PPE to be worn and copies of relevant certificates to
be presented etc.

Access isn't easy from this side, as it's over a stream that has about a
1.5m bank this side (it's a low bank on the other side).

I think with the likes of the railways (or roads / airports etc) the
onus / assumption is that *everything* you do that involves *anything*
to do with them and their property has to be done by the book+.

Indeed it does as witness every few months or so someone gets in a near
miss with a train...

https://www.gov.uk/government/upload...hment_data/fil
e/596266/D062017_170306_Surbiton.pdf


That's not to say you can't 'get away' with all sorts of stuff, it's
just you probably don't what to be that person when you don't.

Nope, not a good thing arguing with a few hundred tons of fast moving
metal..

Cheers, T i m

p.s. Nephew is taking his Air Traffic Controllers exams and was saying
how quickly people in those roles get suspended 'Pending
investigation' even when something was seen to have not been done to
book, let alone went wrong etc. If everything turns out to be 'ok' you
get reinstated and at the other end of the scale you could in up in
the clink. ;-(


I read its one of the most stressful jobs around;!

--
Tony Sayer