Harvey, lets get some facts right. First of all, yes you are completely right it is the employers responsibilty to supply the correct PPE. I thought you should have been well aware of this, as your cv states that you have been a site foreman for the past couple of years. Secondly when you asked for start, i said that you could start thursday night, after my visit on the wednesday with your PPE, i said you could start on the monday, if you could get hold of the correct PPE, at no point did i say i will not supply PPE and go and buy you own,the two lads who you must have been talking with bought their own thats because the are from an agency(get the number off them for the agency, you will probably need it). If this was the case i would not have been running round on a saturday morning,looking to get my 18 TVP lads the correct PPE for the saturday night shift,which i got at an inflated cost of almost £1000. I also spent £32k on PPE last year, if you include scaff steps and double harness lanyards. At no point did you tell the forum that last thursday and friday that you were on a PTS course, paid for by ISL at a cost of £340,which you FAILED, and you also didnt mention that i was going to book you on another PTS course at ISl's cost (i will take from this post that you do not want me to book the second PTS course). After our conversation on thursday. I also told you that as a gesture of good will that the client had stopped all TVP's, that i would not deduct the price of the course from your two shifts,as my legally binding right i will now deduct the price of the course from your wages. As celtic boy said in his post ISL works with some of the biggest construction companies in the country Balfour Beatty, Laing o Rouke, Wilmott Dixon, Kiers, Spencers, May Gurney, to name but a few, so do you think for one minute that ISL would expect my lads to pay for there own PPE, THINK AGAIN BONNY LAD.