Working on a hot glass roof

Working on a hot glass roof

Spotted on the Stratford shopping centre site in London, a man on a glass canopy who tires with his lanyard.

The man was clearly charged with cleaning a glass entrance canopy before the grand opening this week, but apparently got fed up with clipping his lanyard on each time he moved. So if the glass had broken or he had slipped near the edge, he would have been a ‘goner’ and the opening put in jeopardy.

In the words of our correspondent : “Whilst working at the large new shopping centre in Stratford London i spotted this guy doing an unbelievable act of cleaning a glass canopy without being clipped-on. At first he was clipping on to the supporting steelwork, but got quickly bored with that and in the end carried on walking in and out of the building opening onto the glass without securing himself.
The photos clearly show his harness underneath the hi-viz.”

So does it qualify as a Death Wish? Well it is not the worst we have seen by far, but given how high it is, and that he is walking on wet glass…. And the fact that he is wearing a harness and so just needs to clip the lanyard on… Yes a Death Wish.. our 202nd.