health and safety/method statements

[mikethetile]

this is the way things are going with the H&S getting tighter

its no bad thing as a contractor needs to understand the job in order to write up the ms and ra
a badly written statement will show up a lack of experiance at the tender stage leaving things open for the true tradesman

 

[kilty55]

this is the way things are going with the H&S getting tighter

its no bad thing as a contractor needs to understand the job in order to write up the ms and ra
a badly written statement will show up a lack of experiance at the tender stage leaving things open for the true tradesman

good point,however when work and pricing is minimal already on the jobs being tendered questions have to be asked if its financially viable spending so many hours doing the paperwork to go along with it and in this case it wasnt for myself unfortunately.there are pros and cons to every job and too much of one thing isnt always good

health and safety,rules and regs are good things but if its making the invoice non profitable at the end of the job there is no point

 

[mikethetile]

I suppose in a way I was answering your post kilty but I was making a general observation
I priced a decorating job on a hotel the other week and put a spot item in the estimate for £200 to cover ms and H&S statements

someones got to pay for it and as you have said its for their benefit, if they wont pay the money why should you supply them