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Chat => Chit Chat => Topic started by: Bowdon on August 26, 2020, 02:17:40 PM
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I was under the impression that OR engineers are supposed to wear PPE when visiting a customers house?
I noticed an OR van driving up the road and naturally I had a peek out of the curtains to see if he was stopping around here. He got out of the van, wore a blank high vis vest and walked up to the door way of a neighbour on the other side of the road. He didn't go in, and from what I can tell the work seems to be were the phone line (served by a telegraph pole) comes down from the side of the house to near the door way. So the work is just outside the front door. I was just surprised he had no PPE on.
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I was under the impression that OR engineers are supposed to wear PPE when visiting a customers house?
I noticed an OR van driving up the road and naturally I had a peek out of the curtains to see if he was stopping around here. He got out of the van, wore a blank high vis vest and walked up to the door way of a neighbour on the other side of the road. He didn't go in, and from what I can tell the work seems to be were the phone line (served by a telegraph pole) comes down from the side of the house to near the door way. So the work is just outside the front door. I was just surprised he had no PPE on.
What was, it he wasn't wearing ??
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what PPE other than a high-vis would he/she need to be wearing whilst working outdoors and on the ground?
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what PPE other than a high-vis would he/she need to be wearing whilst working outdoors and on the ground?
Simply, protective footwear.
Any working from height (even 2ft up a ladder), a hard-hat is also required.
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@ Black Sheep, What the rules when they need to come into someones property, with them and us ?.
eg. masks on ?
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Happily, I'm no longer up to speed with that LOB regarding this issue, tickmike ;D ;D ;D
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Openreach was at a neighbours house last month. They'd been complaining that their broadband kept disconnecting.
He wasn't wearing PPE and was testing from the BT66 - he didn't enter the premises at all - and then proceeded to do something in the FP box. *
Openreach guidelines are laid out here
https://www.openreach.com/covid-19-coronavirus
*I suspect they may suffer from the same SHINE bursts I get. If I didn't have DSLstats and know what was happening and force a reboot, then my DSL would also suffer more than it does.
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Thanks for link, hopefully in the next month hope to get our FTTP put in which is just inside our front door, we can have the door open but I will insist they wear a mask, I will .
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What was, it he wasn't wearing ??
I was thinking he might have worn a face mask, for at least greeting the house holder.
I'm not having a go or anything as I've seen work people even inside houses without face masks (non-telecoms people).