Health and Safety Nighmare at A. Gray and Sons Ltd, Glenboig

We all know the standard health and safety questions we get endlessly bombarded with at work, some of the being something like:

• Is health and safety important at you company?
• Do you care about your employees well being and safety?

If you answered yes to both of the above questions you don't work at A gray and Sons ltd in Glenboig. If you do work at A gray and Sons you would probably find the following questions more relevant:

• Would you ever consider using a forklift truck as a human lifting device?
• Have you ever used a fork lift truck as a human lifting device?
• Would you also consider sending the employee on to the roof of a lorry in the rain?
  

Your answer to these would also be yes at A gray and sons as the images below depict. I'm also quite sure that wandering around on top of a parked lorry out in the open without any form of harness is also a breach of Health and Safety, but at A. gray and Sons they don't care as they are above health and safety, maybe immortality is a question on the job application form, I somehow doubt it.Maybe the staff and more importantly the management should visit the HSE and read up on working at height since they obviously don't know what the guidelines are !

A Gray and Sons commerical fleet services, Glenboig

Its been a while since I did a post about A Gray and Sons in Glenboig but now winters here I can yet again see what their up to ( if I had the choice I'd rather not but since they wont build a fence or wall, I have to ).

So here I aim restarting my campaign for the winter to get them to

1. Tidy up their yard, some of which they have done but they haven't gone far enough
2. Confine their shot blasting so its in a building with filter so I don't have to breath in the fumes and wash the grit of my car every few days, Confining it would also help reduce the noise.
3. Build a high fence so I can't see whats going on and don't feel temped to jump over mine and start tiding up for them in an aim to reduce the eye sore that is A gray and sons
   

Looking at the a gray and sons website they've been busy over the summer, respraying lorries Ive see M&S again, (they never replied to my letter so, I'll take it up with a branch manager next time I see one there) fed-ex and of course all these ones they care to advertise on http://home.btconnect.com/gray/index.html

but they don't publish pictures of the dust and rubbish they distribute around the place like this:

Shot or Sand Blasting

Now Im not an expert on health and safety but I cant imagine that the law says its fine to do sandblasting out on the open without any form or ventalation or protection to the surround area. Well would you believe it but thats what A gray & sons do.

Sand blasting does create a lot of noise but more importantly when done out in the open it creates a lot of dust and other minute particlues that those using the surrounding are have no choice but to breath in. How can this be safe!