Cllr Adam Lowe Oakham Town Council Risk Assessment Plantscape Hanging Baskets
At last weeks council meeting we learnt that the councils contractor for providing and maintaining
hanging baskets in the town had been taken over. The company who has taken over Plantscape visited
Oakham and carried out a health and safety risk assessment and then wrote to Oakham Town Council
explaining that due to health and safety reasons they would not be able to hang baskets for the council this year at certain locations. The reason being that the brackets were to high at those locations.
So you would think that Oakham Town Council would arrange to have the brackets lowered to the height a person can safely work from a ladder or offer to hire a cherry picker or a tower, oh no Cllr Adam Lowe suggested our local contractor Greggs because his 'health and safety threshold is much lower. After Cllr Lowe advised members of this they voted to get Greggs to carry out the work Plantscape would not do.
I trust Cllr Lowe had checked with Greggs and our insurers before bringing this to council.
In the mean time I suggest he might like to read this:
Beware the word competent is used in this document a word Cllr Lowe and the Clerk do not understand. Only this week Cllr Lowe and the Clerk have confused the use of the word competent with incompetent?
http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg455.pdf
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