OK, here's a scoop, I got this anonymously and once again the people affected dont want to speak up about it.
Why?
Because of fear of losing their contracts.
Typical bullshit from typical shiny asses.
Months ago a Victorian tree worker fell coz it appears he didn't tie his termination knot correctly.
So, in come the new rules as shown here.
An extra long tail with back biner so if your knot comes undone you'll be OK.
Please note, the line in this instance had a spliced eye, so in this example we have EXTREME DUMBING it down as climbers with eye spliced terminations now have to tie a knot and the spliced eye becomes the "back up".
This is the sort of BULLSHIT that the industry brings onto itself. Not by OHS govt reg!!!!
So, what I find absolutely insulting is that I trained, tie knots correctly
(and what sort of idiot cant tie a figure 8 knot) and for the better part do things safely and correctly yet when an isolated incident occurs that all means tough luck and do this procedure.
So the industry self inflicts a LOT OF IT'S OWN BULLSHIT.
The people that do this, make these adjustments to their own codes (such as power line trimming) do it to show OHS some brownie points system that they did something and re-evaluated their safety procedures. Why? Oh because some-one didn't clip in right, didn't tie in right and you cant just say ... 100% human error and not get fined and interrogated IMHO.
So what next, two biners with opposing gates, dont laugh, it wont be that far off the way things are going.
