Safety harness is mercifully only mandatory over 2m, even for H&S-obsessive BAM. All their sites are however, 'Boots, Goggles, Gloves' at all times. As someone above has mentioned, gloves for fiddly work are stupid, stupid, stupid. Literally double the time taken to complete some work, and even...
I'm not convinced of that. I reckon on lot of sites the Site Manager is actually short of hands. We waste hour after hour on site waiting for them to come and look at something so it can be signed off, or a decision can be made.
Tough job though - Site Manager - probably why half of them seem...