But Fred,
Edge protection or not if your up 6.5 metres your brain should be telling you to be aware of a very real danger.
If your own brain is not telling you to be extra carefull what chance has anyone else got?
Its like my school teacher used to say! "Would you jump off a cliff if he did?"
You could have trained this man untill the cows come home but this will still be an error of basic personal (self preserving) intelligence!
If you really want to help this industry stop helping them Americanise it into the same (NO BRAIN REQUIRED) production line that made McDonalds famous.
They only push it on us because they make millions selling us signs to replace the common sense we should already have!
24 years ago when i started in the demolition we had none of this bollox and we did things that would still have us in prison. Men did die but they died because they did something stupid in the afternoon after a two hour session on the beer!
They never died when they were sober! (you fkers never digest that in your statistics)
I used to show up for work in the morning and the boss would tell me to stay on the ground floor because i was too drunk to work on the scaffolding!
Thats one extreme and over the last 24 years i have seen us go to the other where boys go to work and turn off when they get on site because they have a sign and special training to tell them how to wipe their arse!
We don't flip burgers in this game and while people like you promote the safety sign and "special training" people who have made no real difference in safety (because people still die) you are dumbing down men who really need their own witts about them!
We all know this special training and safety sign thing is bullsh-t and nothing more than a legal requirement to absolve liability but blokes like you still believe its about looking after the men on site!
I Imagine you in a pink tutu with a star on the end of a wand in your hand! (About to get bum raped by the devil)