In N.Ireland ontractors seeking government or public works contracts from April 2004 must ensure that ALL their operatives have the CSR card (construction skills register).This is achieved by sending operatives to a training provider for ONE day. Here they will be bored senseless, asked to complete an end test that a dead slug could pass before being issued with a very important looking identity type card. This apparently will have a positive impact on health and safety in the construction industry!Bah! What sort of health and safety competence is required of operatives elsewhere?
Lyle, I agree with Paul, in this respect. Any Health And Safety regime should be Privately-Owned, to make it accountable to those that use it. Anything Government-owned is bound to have HUGE in-efficiencies and we all know how G/Departments run to escape blame when something does go wrong. Save your money and have a Privately owned scheme!.
