On 01/05/2025 20:21, alan_m wrote:

Having watched  few episodes of Digging for Britain over the past few
weeks I note that on quite a few sites all the members of the
archaeology dig crews are wearing hard hats, safety glasses and hi-vis
tops and trousers. Aerial shots show the only "machinery" is a shovel,
trowel and a wheel barrow. No deep holes and flat landscape.

Is this Elfin Safety gone mad?

It's not half as mad as the building site next door to us, where they
were operating heavy machinery, and there was no PPE being worn.

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Having watched few episodes of Digging for Britain over the past few
weeks I note that on quite a few sites all the members of the
archaeology dig crews are wearing hard hats, safety glasses and hi-vis
tops and trousers. Aerial shots show the only "machinery" is a shovel,
trowel and a wheel barrow. No deep holes and flat landscape.

Is this Elfin Safety gone mad?

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On 01/05/2025 20:21, alan_m wrote:

Having watched  few episodes of Digging for Britain over the past few
weeks I note that on quite a few sites all the members of the
archaeology dig crews are wearing hard hats, safety glasses and hi-vis
tops and trousers. Aerial shots show the only "machinery" is a shovel,
trowel and a wheel barrow. No deep holes and flat landscape.

Is this Elfin Safety gone mad?

Given that is being 'televised', and people just love to pick on stuff[1]:

"Won't someone think of all the kiddies who will watch this and...!"

I would be astonished if they didn't go the safe route (read that
however you choose).

[1] Of course, this thread shows that they are on a hiding to nothing
whatever they do.

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In message <m7hvukFber7U1@mid.individual.net>, alan_m
<junk@admac.myzen.co.uk> writes

Having watched few episodes of Digging for Britain over the past few
weeks I note that on quite a few sites all the members of the
archaeology dig crews are wearing hard hats, safety glasses and hi-vis
tops and trousers. Aerial shots show the only "machinery" is a shovel,
trowel and a wheel barrow. No deep holes and flat landscape.

Is this Elfin Safety gone mad?

I've got all my PPE from my work days However I did have to return the
ear defenders and anti-laser googles . The full Monty apart from those.
Maybe I should use it for going down to the shops - well you never know.

I quite fancy this

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61+ITT-eJZL._AC_SL1500_.jpg

It would be useful for the next pandemic.

Brian
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alan_m <junk@admac.myzen.co.uk> wrote:

Having watched few episodes of Digging for Britain over the past few
weeks I note that on quite a few sites all the members of the
archaeology dig crews are wearing hard hats, safety glasses and hi-vis
tops and trousers. Aerial shots show the only "machinery" is a shovel,
trowel and a wheel barrow. No deep holes and flat landscape.

Is this Elfin Safety gone mad?

I suppose some digs are deeper and it is probably easier to have one rule
to cover all circumstances rather than making individual risk assessments
as which PPE is required.

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On 01/05/2025 20:21, alan_m wrote:

Having watched  few episodes of Digging for Britain over the past few
weeks I note that on quite a few sites all the members of the
archaeology dig crews are wearing hard hats, safety glasses and hi-vis
tops and trousers. Aerial shots show the only "machinery" is a shovel,
trowel and a wheel barrow. No deep holes and flat landscape.

Is this Elfin Safety gone mad?

Even back in the '90s, when I was supervising the installation of the
controls on new sewage works scraper bridges, one of the electricians
struggled to make terminations inside a control panel, with his hard-hat
on. After repeated problems, he took it off and was immediately pounced
on by site management. There were no cranes on site, no work within 100m
of him and the panel was the highest point on the site! There was no
common sense, even then.

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On 02/05/2025 14:09, brian wrote:

In message <m7hvukFber7U1@mid.individual.net>, alan_m <junk@admac.myzen.co.uk> writes

Having watched  few episodes of Digging for Britain over the past few
weeks I note that on quite a few sites all the members of the
archaeology dig crews are wearing hard hats, safety glasses and hi-vis
tops and trousers. Aerial shots show the only "machinery" is a shovel,
trowel and a wheel barrow. No deep holes and flat landscape.

Is this Elfin Safety gone mad?

I've got all my PPE from my work days  However I did have to return the
ear defenders and anti-laser googles  . The full Monty apart from those. Maybe I should use it for going down to the shops - well you never know.

I quite fancy this

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61+ITT-eJZL._AC_SL1500_.jpg

It would be useful for the next pandemic.

You might not need to wait that long.
It's been terribly sunny these last few days and I would rate that lot
as Sun Protection Factor 120.


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On 02/05/2025 16:09, Tricky Dicky wrote:

alan_m <junk@admac.myzen.co.uk> wrote:

Having watched few episodes of Digging for Britain over the past few
weeks I note that on quite a few sites all the members of the
archaeology dig crews are wearing hard hats, safety glasses and hi-vis
tops and trousers. Aerial shots show the only "machinery" is a shovel,
trowel and a wheel barrow. No deep holes and flat landscape.

Is this Elfin Safety gone mad?

I suppose some digs are deeper and it is probably easier to have one rule
to cover all circumstances rather than making individual risk assessments
as which PPE is required.

The TV program covers various digs in the same episode and no PPE to
that extent, no hard hats, no safety glasses, no hi-vis on the other digs.

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alan_m <junk@admac.myzen.co.uk> wrote:

On 02/05/2025 16:09, Tricky Dicky wrote:

alan_m <junk@admac.myzen.co.uk> wrote:

Having watched few episodes of Digging for Britain over the past few
weeks I note that on quite a few sites all the members of the
archaeology dig crews are wearing hard hats, safety glasses and hi-vis
tops and trousers. Aerial shots show the only "machinery" is a shovel,
trowel and a wheel barrow. No deep holes and flat landscape.

Is this Elfin Safety gone mad?

I suppose some digs are deeper and it is probably easier to have one rule to cover all circumstances rather than making individual risk assessments as which PPE is required.

The TV program covers various digs in the same episode and no PPE to
that extent, no hard hats, no safety glasses, no hi-vis on the other digs.

Some of the sites they do are for HS2, road projects, etc. Perhaps those projects have blanket rules about PPE? eg railway hi viz is orange, so if
you see orange on a railway project it's likely to have been mandated by the project management. Often the rules apply to both direct employees and contractors - the archaeologists might be working for a consultancy like
Oxford Archaeology, but as they're contractors then the standard PPE rules
will apply.

Theo

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