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TRAD Recruitment
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Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention. It is always important to prevent potential accidents or incidents by highlighting Near Misses, and this issue was closed out as soon as it became known.
No company is ever infallible, so it is vitally important for all Scaffold Contractors to know about potential issues immediately – and certainly not by finding out about a potential accident in a roundabout fashion, especially through a Forum email thread.
Imagine how anyone in the Forum would feel if one of their loved ones were hurt in an accident and it later turns out that someone spent more time taking and uploading photos, rather than picking up the phone to make something safe? It would be seen as irresponsible and not a good reflection on the Forum, whose members try to promote best practice.
The responsible thing to do is to contact the Scaffold Contractor yourself – ideally, we’d always appreciate being contacted directly by phone (020 8980 1155) or by text on our Near Miss Text Line (07860 021 792) – so that we can quickly close out issues.
Posts such as “Trad Clowns”, or other derogatory titles of all the scaffold companies you all work for and Trad supplies, do nothing other than lower the credibility of such posts, and their senders, and the members of this forum as a whole, this is unfair on the vast majority who are all trying to raise professionalism in the industry as a whole.
Perhaps, it is time for all professional scaffold companies to take a greater interest in the scaffold forum and we will be recommending that all of our present workforce join, to put time and effort into improving the website and increase its appeal and professionalism, and to that end Trad have decided to sponsor the Scaffolders Forum website.
No company is ever infallible, so it is vitally important for all Scaffold Contractors to know about potential issues immediately – and certainly not by finding out about a potential accident in a roundabout fashion, especially through a Forum email thread.
Imagine how anyone in the Forum would feel if one of their loved ones were hurt in an accident and it later turns out that someone spent more time taking and uploading photos, rather than picking up the phone to make something safe? It would be seen as irresponsible and not a good reflection on the Forum, whose members try to promote best practice.
The responsible thing to do is to contact the Scaffold Contractor yourself – ideally, we’d always appreciate being contacted directly by phone (020 8980 1155) or by text on our Near Miss Text Line (07860 021 792) – so that we can quickly close out issues.
Posts such as “Trad Clowns”, or other derogatory titles of all the scaffold companies you all work for and Trad supplies, do nothing other than lower the credibility of such posts, and their senders, and the members of this forum as a whole, this is unfair on the vast majority who are all trying to raise professionalism in the industry as a whole.
Perhaps, it is time for all professional scaffold companies to take a greater interest in the scaffold forum and we will be recommending that all of our present workforce join, to put time and effort into improving the website and increase its appeal and professionalism, and to that end Trad have decided to sponsor the Scaffolders Forum website.
