About this time last year, I wrote an article entitled “the law of unintended consequences” in which I spoke about how one seemingly positive action can result in a negative outcome. I revisited that subject in May this year with an article called “construction’s lack of consequences”. The same notion was also the inspiration for a piece I write just a few weeks ago called “Right Hand vs Left Hand”.
Each time I have written about this, my words have been greeted with widespread, almost universal recognition. “Yes,” people say. “Obviously if you raise the Landfill Tax, some people will just fly-tip their waste illegally.” Or, “if you demand industry veterans prove they’re capable of doing the job they have been doing for the past 30 years, some of them are going to tell you where you can poke your NVQs”.
Sadly, as is so often the case, factors that seem patently obvious to those on the ground are considerably less obvious to those in loftier positions within the UK demolition and construction industry.
And few organisations are quite as lofty and as far removed from the muck and bullets of the demolition and construction trenches as the Construction Industry Training Board (or the CITB as it is known, affectionately or otherwise).
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