Paperwork

[tommytaylor]

Does anyone actually enjoy doing this, its really getting me down just lately. My job has evolved from doing just physical work in the early days to more and more form filling, risk assessments, H&S stuff, RAMS, certs for this, cert for that, its endless.

Today I filled in a certificate for a job I'd done and as the certs are lengthy I have pre filled in templates that I spent hours getting just right to lessen the workload each time I need to do one, only to be told the forms have recently changed slightly and I now need different ones.

I really don't know how people cope with it, you are expected to do a days physical work and then fill in paperwork only for some duffer who sits in a warm office each day who's sole job is to pull it apart, There must be so many people like me in their 50's who are fairly comfortable financially who are so disillusioned with the way things are going that they could easily jack it all in tomorrow and get a job at tesco's instead. This is the time of life we should be passing our skills onto the younger generation but I've totally lost interest personally.

[Whistle]

Yep,

I spent 2 hours this morning doing Rams for one small site.

Our lads have been on site for 2 days no problems, got kicked off site today for wearing shorts, they have had them on since the start.

[tommytaylor]

I don't get this kicking people off site, where do they get the replacements at short notice. I was doing a bit of shop fitting a couple of years ago and I had to go and sort out someone else's cock up at another shop so I was late for our main job that needed finishing by the Friday, in the mayhem that ensued I forgot to put my hi-viz on and was shortly approached by the manager, this is how it went.

Manager - I'm going to to have to give you a yellow card for not wearing your vest.
Me (not really knowing what a yellow card is or entails) - I wouldn't do that if I was you
Manager - why not
Me - because I'll just pack my tools up and go home and the job won't get finished on time
Manager - oh, well I was only joking, ha ha ha.

Tosser.

[nute]

I have to ask for RAMS before the start of each on site job. I’ll skim through them but not in great detail and they just go into the file. Paperwork for the sake of paperwork.

[TGTiff]

I work in the nuclear construction industry.
The level of paperwork is astronomical for even the most mundane task.
ITPs, Risk Assesments, Task orders, Life time records, I could go on.
This leads to a high staff turn over and a recruitment problem.

[Nethybridge]

I mind my dad saying " I'm still doing paperwork " when asked to hurry up when he was in the toilet.

Found that strange cause he was a carpet fitter.

[Countdown]

TGTiff said:

I work in the nuclear construction industry.
The level of paperwork is astronomical for even the most mundane task.
ITPs, Risk Assesments, Task orders, Life time records, I could go on.

It's ridiculous isn't it? I mean what are the chances of something really bad happening in the nuclear industry....the world's gone mad.

TGTiff said:

This leads to a high staff turn over and a recruitment problem.

The type of people you really need in the Nuclear industry are those who dislike H&S

[K87]

TGTiff said:

I work in the nuclear construction industry.
The level of paperwork is astronomical for even the most mundane task.
ITPs, Risk Assesments, Task orders, Life time records, I could go on.
This leads to a high staff turn over and a recruitment problem.

I used to also, with NNC which became part of AMEC in Knutsford.

I suppose that there is good reason for all the fuss particularly as the risk is all at Tier 1.

Very happy to see all that rubbish behind me.