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Published Date: 02 July 2009
SCHOOLCHILDREN are being warned against playing near to the site of a new multi-million-pound water treatment plant.
Scottish Water is currently constructing the plant at Glencorse to help improve drinking supplies for Edinburgh.

The company recently completed the first phase of an education programme for three local schools, with children learning a number of important issues including health and safety.

Senior project manager Richard Anderson said: "We currently have more than 150 skilled construction workers on site and each of them has completed a course in health and safety. They wear special clothing including high-visibility jackets and hard hats.

"They have a detailed knowledge of the site and its workings and each morning take part in a briefing to further highlight what work is being carried out on-site each day. Construction sites can be extremely dangerous, and not a place for children or even unsupervised adults."





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  • Last Updated: 02 July 2009 10:29 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
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Alternative (High-Octane) Fuel Head,

Edinburgh 02/07/2009 13:01:11
What's new about kids playing on building sites?

Me and my mates learned how to drive all sorts of unusual vehicles on building sites during quiet sunday afternoons.... Bulldozers, JCBs, those funny little dumper trucks that went BANG-BANG-BANG-BANG when you put your foot down. We even got a 40ft long, twin-engined grader going once.

At times, the builders themselves would let us drive the dumper truck around whilst the regular driver leaned on his shovel and drunk tea.

Everything's gone healt and safet mad these days and it's such a damn shame.
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Andrew,

02/07/2009 23:46:43
1) You could write a good scrip for the now defunct YTV's "Heartbeat" or "The Royal"!
"Those were the days, my friend, we thought would never end" - BUT THEY HAVE, THANK GOODNESS!
BUILDING SITES ARE NOT (and never were) PLAYGROUNDS!

 

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