This is the shocking moment a worker risked his life by standing on top of a house jet washing a roof with what appears to be just a rope tied around him for safety. The unnamed worker was spotted on the roof 30-feet above the ground on top of an Edwardian semi-detached home in Greenwich, south east London. A local resident noticed the man carrying out the work with a lack of safety equipment on the slippery tiles and quickly took snaps of the man. A worker who was caught jet washing the roof of a home in south east London with just a rope tied around him for safety . The neighbour said: 'I couldn't believe it. He was standing on the roof with a power washer and seemed to have a rope tied around his waist. 'It looked incredibly dangerous. His boss seemed to be watching sitting on a wall opposite and seemed unfazed by it all.' A building expert, who did not want to be named, said the workman should have at least had scaffolding up at the front of the property and a much longer ladder with a harness. He said: 'You can't just stand up there with a bit of rope tied around you and think it's fine, it's not. 'You have to think about how slippery it would be up there because as you can see he is spraying from the top to bottom, meaning the water will be trickling down around his feet. A building expert said the man should have at least had scaffolding up at the front of the property and a longer ladder . 'You would only have to slip and fall once and that would be it.' The image was then passed to the Health and Safety Executive, who attended the property and caught the man doing the same thing on the roof of the garage before he was stopped. A HSE Spokeswoman said: 'Following a concern raised, HSE inspectors visited the house yesterday and served a prohibition notice. 'This means the work had to cease until appropriate safety measures are put in place.'
Unnamed worker was spotted on the roof of a house in south east London.
Appeared to only be using rope for safety while 30-feet above the ground.
Health and Safety Executive attended and stopped the work following concerns.