Council contractors are concerned about health and safety rules which have banned using ladders on jobs as mundane as changing a bulb or clearing guttering. Instead, workmen have to put up scaffolding at a cost of £35 a day- last year, the bill hit £1.4 million.
Kier Stoke is a contractor and is responsible for repairs to 20 000 homes and 500 council buildings and they estimate scaffolding usually stays up for an average of eight days. They introduced a ladder ban countrywide last year after a worker seriously hurt himself in a fall. Council officials described the £1.4 million bill as a "significant amount". A spokesman said:
Kier Stoke is a contractor and is responsible for repairs to 20 000 homes and 500 council buildings and they estimate scaffolding usually stays up for an average of eight days. They introduced a ladder ban countrywide last year after a worker seriously hurt himself in a fall. Council officials described the £1.4 million bill as a "significant amount". A spokesman said:
"We are working with Kier to reduce this cost by introducing new safe and efficient methods of access."
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