Unusual Rigging Limited

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First report 3 Nov 2019•Latest report 3 Nov 2019

Reports, concerns and published responses

Reports over time

Reports naming this recipient by issue year.

* 2026 is projected from reports observed to 7 Sep 2026.

Reports
1

Naming this recipient

Published responses
0%

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Concerns addressed
0

Across all linked responses

Stated actions
0

Described in responses

Concerns and recipient responses

Statements from Unusual Rigging Limited linked to the concerns in each report. Select any concern, action or position to view the source wording.

  1. Bedfordshire and Luton

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    Russell Paul BOWRY · Prevention of Future Deaths report

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    Report summary

    Russell Paul Bowry died after falling 11 metres through exposed roof material while working at height on a stage structure at Cardington Studios. The concerns included inadequate planning and supervision of work at height, insufficiently designed fall-protection systems, and unsafe working practices affecting self-employed riggers.

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    How this individual concern was interpreted

    PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to Unusual Rigging Limited; that does not assign responsibility.

    PFD Monitor interpretation

    Failure to ensure work-at-height systems provide adequate fall protection

    Wider context from the report

    “(b) Employers in your industry may not realise they are responsible for designing the necessary safety features for work at height, including engaging the services of those who have the right skills to design such systems. Safe systems of work include ensuring that all clipping on points and safety features have the necessary impact requirements to hold a falling person and that the work can be done while the riggers are always clipped on or, that it is safe without clipping on; ”
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    How this individual concern was interpreted

    PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to Unusual Rigging Limited; that does not assign responsibility.

    PFD Monitor interpretation

    Unsafe working practices routinely occurring in rigging work

    Wider context from the report

    “(c) Unsafe working practices are routinely encountered by riggers in your industry and due to the structure of your industry – in which a small number of employers engage a large pool of self-employed riggers for individual jobs of short duration – riggers appear to have little influence over the fall protection or fall prevention measures that are put in place to keep them safe. ”
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    How this individual concern was interpreted

    PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to Unusual Rigging Limited; that does not assign responsibility.

    PFD Monitor interpretation

    Failure to provide competent planning and supervision of work at height

    Wider context from the report

    “(a) Employers in your industry may believe that they can safely delegate to individual riggers the responsibility to plan work at height, supervise it and carry it out safely. Russell Bowry was an NRC level 2 rigger but he was working directly under ELP, whose employees had no NRC qualifications. There was no head rigger. ELP gave evidence that it was their expectation that experienced riggers could be relied upon to ensure their own safety. Yet the riggers from whom I heard, told me that they were not always clipped on; ”
    Open source report

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    How this individual concern was interpreted

    PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to Unusual Rigging Limited; that does not assign responsibility.

    PFD Monitor interpretation

    Failure to ensure riggers remain clipped on during work at height

    Wider context from the report

    “(a) Employers in your industry may believe that they can safely delegate to individual riggers the responsibility to plan work at height, supervise it and carry it out safely. Russell Bowry was an NRC level 2 rigger but he was working directly under ELP, whose employees had no NRC qualifications. There was no head rigger. ELP gave evidence that it was their expectation that experienced riggers could be relied upon to ensure their own safety. Yet the riggers from whom I heard, told me that they were not always clipped on; ”
    Open source report

    Source evidence

    How this individual concern was interpreted

    PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to Unusual Rigging Limited; that does not assign responsibility.

    PFD Monitor interpretation

    Limited rigger influence over fall protection and fall prevention measures

    Wider context from the report

    “(c) Unsafe working practices are routinely encountered by riggers in your industry and due to the structure of your industry – in which a small number of employers engage a large pool of self-employed riggers for individual jobs of short duration – riggers appear to have little influence over the fall protection or fall prevention measures that are put in place to keep them safe. ”
    Open source report

    Source evidence

    How this individual concern was interpreted

    PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to Unusual Rigging Limited; that does not assign responsibility.

    PFD Monitor interpretation

    Failure to ensure competent design of necessary work-at-height safety features

    Wider context from the report

    “(b) Employers in your industry may not realise they are responsible for designing the necessary safety features for work at height, including engaging the services of those who have the right skills to design such systems. Safe systems of work include ensuring that all clipping on points and safety features have the necessary impact requirements to hold a falling person and that the work can be done while the riggers are always clipped on or, that it is safe without clipping on; ”
    Open source report
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