Good evening All,we will reply to each post individually in due course to avoid duplication of responses and to gather some additional information that has been requested by the Forum members,hope you all have a good weekend and kind regards TRAD.
HI Rigger,we have registered TRAD rightly or wrongly under the names i.e. Recruitment/Health and Safety etc that would be relevant to the posts unfortunately the post in relation to the NASC could not be posted under the correct name,I can assure you that there is no delaying Tactic we just wish to respond both accurately and appropriately,with regard to your own post we will as stated reply on Monday but I would stress that we are not telling you or any other Forum member what they can or cannot say or post and we value your opinion as we do all Forum members ,please accept our apologies if it has appeared otherwise it was not our intention,kind regards TRAD.
Good morning,there are genuine misconceptions and there are real issues no doubt that need addressing,we believe that you can do little if nothing to change NASC policy from the outside which is why Companies need to get involved and why we as active Members need to take back genuine grievances raised in the threads to this post and seek to address them,hence the post in the 1st place
In relation to your 1st paragraph point one you are incorrect and misinformed,primarily because of abuse by Trades on certain Barratts sites " not all " it was decided to adopt a modified version of our TRAD Deck system on the sites in question,there is no ban and TSS continues to service Barratts as a Client together with various other Brands in its Group,in relation to the Step our Health and Safety Department will respond in general to both yours and others comments with our Contracts Staff experience to date,in response to your last paragraph you are obviously entitled as we all are to express your opinion but as I am sure you will appreciate we do not concur and purely as an observation such comments just throw doubt on the credibility of posts such as this,this one in particular being a prime example, civility does not cost anything.Trad deck.banned from certain barratt sites for being unsafe and unfit for a working platform.....scaff step will eventually be linked to lower back problems due to insufficient space to spread feet apart when losing balance carrying a load so all the strain is took up by the back....we can fight back too!
Your a self serving parasitical organisation and if you think that p2ss poor effort at damage limitation will work on scaffs you have raped for years....your smokin the wrong sh1t !
Good morning Swifty,companies such as DSL with multiple Branches pay the highest Annual fee but as a Group and not as individual Branches, therefore their individual T/O is not taking into account,the reality is that if a particular Branch did not comply with the NASC rules the Group would be given a timescale to comply and face reaudit at their own expense,this also explains how individual Branches of the Nationals may appear to have a high concentration of self employed or Agency labour as the formula to calculate compliance of the 90% Direct 10% CIS is taken on the Group as whole and is an avarage of the previous years payroll and is as not some believe taken as a snapshot of the ratio at the time of reaudit.
Thank you but we do believe being a Member is benificial for any Scaffolding Company,whether we like it or not the NASC is precieved by the Major Contractors Group and the HSE as the regulatory body for our Industry and Membership does give you an opportunity to shape future policy.
Hi Swifty,I assume you cannot either! I fully intend to reply to RIGGERS post this morning but as you can appeciate to do it justice it cannot be a short reponse.
