Where Are The Health & Safety Officials When You Need One?

actually that is one demonstrating to a group of employees how to climb a ladder,

or not as the case maybe, Mr Cavanagh explains to the employees from Morrison Facilities Services, a repair and maintenance company, that while tethered to the ladder with a safety harness 'you're not going to go anywhere',




to reassure them, Mr Cavanagh – minus a hard hat – stands on a rung and then leans back from the ladder before spreading his arms out wide, 'it's a shame you can't take a photo of it,' Mr Cavanagh attempts to show the workers what would happen if they were to fall off the ladder, he steps off it and can be seen dangling from the harness, one worker calls out: 'We don't have to do that do we?' Mr Cavanagh replies: 'Yes,' but moments later, as he tries to regain his footing on the ladder, disaster strikes, having failed to secure the ladder to the wall, Mr Cavanagh clings on as it begins to fall sideways before crashing over a garden fence and hitting the ground,


one worker remarks: 'you should have put the side tethers on, ' another adds: 'that just proves the system doesn't work,'



Mr Cavanagh has since been suspended from his job pending an internal investigation, I guess H & S were called in, but the good news is that he was not injured in his fall.