My wife gets calls every time it snows saying that people are snowed in. She has to travel from Wakefield to Sheffield and she's getting a call from someone who lives a mile away. She tells them to walk to the end of the street and they will usually find the main roads clear. If you just look out of the window you're not gonna go anywhere......ever.
I hope in such conditions, you do a complete written H&S risk assessment and submit it in triplicate to the authorities for approval.
In countries like the Ukraine, H&S and risk assessment consists of: Common sense and get on with the effing job. I personally can't see anything wrong with this approach.
Unfortunately, this does not fit in with the socialist mantra in the UK of their constant interference in our lives and the building of their grubby little empires, all at our expense.
Somebody, I know is just having their flat garage roof replaced and where the top three layers of bricks are frost damaged this is going to be rebuild. A few years a go as it is single story a brickie would just use a trestle, now it has to be scaffolding.
When it snows in winter in the Ukraine, they are not surprised even though some years they have little snow, other years it can be a lot. This year they have only had two lots of heavy snow fall, on both occasions about 1m. The first caught them out a bit as it was mid-December and extra snow clearance people aren't employed and on standby until January, so it took longer than usual to get back to normal, about 36 hours, the second time a few hours in the morning and everything was back to normal. In heavy snow teachers are expected to be at school as normal.
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