Should agency hands be supplied free PPE at the worksite?

Just a quick one temp as another 10 year + vet, do you use similar agencies for your onshore contracts?
For example if I listed the 5 offshore ones that spring to mind what would be their onshore conterparts.
1. Rumic Ltd
2. UKPS
3. PROFFS
4. Maris Ltd
5. Subservpro
I understand if you want to keep your hard researched/Oil-Gas friendly info to yourself but if i dont ask how can I justify my Lazy arsed supervisor role in all honesty and then take credit for it somewhere down the line!! It will not be the gym obviously but the Pub probably!
Anyway you dont get to do onshore what you do offshore without the required quals/knowledge/exp etc. so it wouldnt be a free for all more curios as Im not quite ready for the beach yet a couple years more to get rid of that pesky mortguage.

Member Joined: Dec 28, 2003 Location: England

teamjbr

As with any agency work, it's usually best to find ones that concentrate in specific sectors that you wish to work in, as they have the industry inside contacts and stand a chance of actually understanding a bit about what is required.

They will be used to dealing with the regular clients from the (e.g. ROV) companies and know them on a first-name basis, know usual problems encountered etc.

At least the girls (and guys) on the end of the phone from the established ROV agencies seem to appreciate the difference between eyeball, work-class, trencher etc, and between electrical/electronics and hydraulics/mechanical techs, and differences between Supervisor, Sub Eng, P/T etc. They also have a good idea of the going rate and what they can push for.

For my onshore work I use a couple of specialised agencies in the particular sector that I work in, which is high-end specialised security/cctv and related electronics systems for clients usually requiring cleared personnel, sorry don't want to name agencies on an open forum.

Plenty of other agencies specialising in engineering jobs (such as justengineers.co.uk, engineeringjobs.net, defencejobs.co.uk etc), and some good contract rates if have right experience and qualifications in niche sectors. If ex-forces, you can use RFEA Regular Forces Employment Agency for rest of working career for free, they have good contacts all over the place, don't take any cut or fees as paid for by MOD, and often turn up unusual jobs not advertised elsewhere.

Take a look at some of the oil&gas related onshore contract engineer jobs websites to realise what companies are prepared to pay for the right people, makes you wonder why it has taken so long for ROV contract pay to improve.

Not much need to find alternative work just now when loads of ROV jobs around, rates improving, but if freelance it's good to have back-up alternative work for when it all goes quiet again - preferably in a sector not affected by same market influences.

temp

Member Joined: Dec 28, 2003 Location: England

this thread going slightly off-post isn't it!

Should people be supplied with free PPE etc?

temp

Member Joined: Jun 05, 2004

Big bags , Temp , Big Bags Very Happy

Member Joined: Dec 28, 2003 Location: England

Bin-bags more like it; there always seem to be people with a humungous bag at the heliport that have to split it into 2 loads to meet HSE manual handling regs, and of course they have no extra holdall, so given plastic sack for their gear. Maersk used to do a good line selling their holdalls at the heliport in Esbjerg, although I don't do the Danish thing anymore, what with the tax and that.

As for handing in your mobile phone - a real pain if ship/helicopter returns to a different place. I remove the SIM card if handing it in.
Carrying your own hard-hat with you provides a good storage place for breakables, such as glasses, mp3 players etc, packed around with socks etc - never found it takes up too much room - if it does get a bigger bag!

Used to even take a small toolkit and multimeter away for work with some cowboy companies who were notorious for crap toolboxes full (or empty) of rusty old tools, but wouldn't do that nonsense anymore.

Top tips - always carry a spare folded holdall etc in the main big bag, can then carry as much PPE or 'personal admin' toys/gadgets as you need to keep you entertained during the lonely nights...