Have a laugh, why don't ya, re: BT's workplace Health & Safety.

Throughout c. July 2001 to Nov. 2005. I was a BT employee passenger in a BT asset not dissimilar to the vehicle pictured. The "substantive C1 grade BT IT Gold User team leader supervisor" under who's BT workplace authority, control and power I and other BT employees were contractually obligated to work under, was the driver and operator of the PEU.

Okay so far? ... not hard to get your head around, is it?

The BT vehicle / plant is fitted with a variety of limit switches in order to ensure that the plant is operated safely and legally when in use. For example the  crane and auger main column is fitted with plate which interrupts the hydraulic system to prevent the crane and auger being operated outside it's safe limits. The "substantive C1 grade BT IT Gold User team leader supervisor" driver / operator would remove the safety plate attached to the crane column and refit the safety plate just prior to any vehicle service. 
This clev'a(sic) ruse of the clev'a(sic) "substantive C1 grade BT IT Gold User team leader supervisor" driver / operator, enabled him to use the BT plant is an unlawful, dangerous, unsafe and prohibited manner, operating the BT plant outside of its inbuilt safety limits.

Another little example of this particular BT employee "substantive C1 grade BT IT Gold User team leader supervisor" driver / operator's contemptuous disregard for the employer's H&S policy is the example of the speed limiter which is fitted to the vehicle. This safety device came in the form of a fuse located, along with other vehicle fuses, behind an easily removable plastic panel on the vehicle's dash. The protective panel which concealed the fuse panel was never in situ ,  not even for any vehicle service. The "substantive C1 grade BT IT Gold User team leader supervisor" driver / operator would as a matter of course, remove the fuse when driving along a motorway and/or a duel carriageway. And whilst traveling at that illegal speed, the BT employee "substantive C1 grade BT IT Gold User team leader supervisor" would, regular as clockwork, either roll a fag, make and receive mobile phone calls and/or do a bit of eating and/or drinking.

I would be sitting there absolutely shitting meself, whilst pretending the "substantive C1 grade BT IT Gold User team leader supervisor" driver / operator I was a BT employee passenger alongside, was behaving perfectly normally, conducting himself as described above.

The above is of course with reference to the contents of an Aug. 2006 Whistle blowing evidential bundle given to BT management.

2Bcontd...