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Yet another letting agent/property management company has asked me to do some work on a large rural estate. I got the official work order form in the post today and it says at the bottom : –
Health & Safety
It is a condition of the acceptance of your quotation/estimate that you accept responsibility for complying with the provisions of the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 and any other Acts and Regulations relevant to your work and that you provide a full indemnity against any claim arising.
These instructions are given on the basis that you and any sub-contractors are both qualified and competent to carry out the work and that you have provided any necessary documentation, including a copy of your current Public Liability Insurance Certificate.
Where necessary a risk assessment will be carried out and you must take account of the factors identified and any other unspecified hazards in the preparation and completion of your work
Bl**dy hell! It’s only a Hotpoint washer with worn out brushes they want replacing but with all that legal “risk assessment” mumbo jumbo I don’t think I’ll take the risk.
Life’s more precious to me if I just throw that work order in the bin instead, let some other poor s*d do it and take the consequences.:rolls:
Anybody want a job on a big estate in North Hampshire?…Come on, I’m open to offers over 10 quid commission….ROLL UP, ROLL UP -EVERY ONE A WINNER!!!!
They’re just covering themselves. I used to do the appliances in a couple of local schools until they demanded proof of £5 million public liability cover. It’s all getting far too silly.
Steve.
Re: Health & Safety -Letting agencies?
Last night I sent them an email telling them I wasn’t best happy at all with their small print and to go elsewhere. Today the lady from their office rings me and apologises stating that they have (quote) “by law” (unquote) to put that standard guff in any correspondence. She also went through her records to find that I’d done work (via a previous agency) on the estate before and would be more than happy for me to continue the same service for them.
So anyway, all is well, I got my point across, a truce declared and the job is booked for Monday morning. 😀
Nice job! In my experience they normally see sense.
Good luck Monday. Don’t forget your steel toecaps and yellow hard hat. 😉
Steve.
SteveATY wrote:Nice job! In my experience they normally see sense.
To be honest I’m not sure if even they know what their own small print truly means? 😕
When the lady rang me I quoted the last line of her letter “Where necessary a risk assessment will be carried out and you must take account of the factors identified and any other unspecified hazards in the preparation and completion of your work”…and she didn’t really know what it meant either….? 😯
….all she did say to it was “well probably ‘risk assessment’ simply means – mind how you go?” and she went on to say…”unspecified hazards may mean that the tenant has a guard dog perhaps?”
What a laugh…:rotl:
Re: Health & Safety -Letting agencies?
i would think its just to cover them if you rip lino or snap a fill hose but havent checked where the tap is and whether it switches off
i had a letting agent who put in writing for one block of flats that they would cover any water damage when i was pulling out the machines as the hoses where too short to pull it out and clear the worktop
and yes you guessed it the machine taps and mains water in are behind the machine
you had to pull the machine out snapping the hoses to be able to get behind it to turn off the taps 🙁 very wet jobwasn`t allowed to turn the mains off to all 100 flats as they would get too many complaints 😯 😯
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