jmellc
Senior Member
- Location
- Durham, NC
- Occupation
- Facility Maintenance Tech. Licensed Electrician
I value safety but I see some idiotic circuses around it.
A safety officer told me last year that if a lanyard ever gets used to lift an object, it cannot be used again for safety. So who keeps up and documents that? Each lanyard would need its own safety officer to follow it around 24/7 and certify it each day. Or use the honor system & each of us report ourselves if we ever slip up & lift a tape measure or tool bag with it. Or we could spy on each other & snitch.
A safety officer constantly lectured us on ladder stickers, to keep them clean, not scuff them, etc. I talked to a guy whose company sprayed clear coat on their ladders & it helped protect the ladders. I suggested that to the officer. She said we couldn’t do that without documentation from the manufacturer that it would not weaken the ladder. Our ladders were marked with paint. I asked her if the paint had been certified to be safe. She called me a smart aleck. She also brought us out stepladders to use in trenches, propped up against the side. We had all just been lectured about only using stepladders spread out. I asked about legality of this and asked if there weren’t special trench ladders we could get. She said she didn’t know. Took me 10 minutes on Google to see some. I texted pics to her & she didn’t speak to me the rest of the week.
I had one boss that did safety meetings every Monday morning & it was the usual, not pulling plugs by the cord kind of stuff. We had a trailer for the scizzor lift that had a badly cracked board. I stayed after him for 6 months to fix it. He had every excuse under the sun not to & said just avoid the crack. He finally had it fixed when 2 others fussed about it.
I recall a foreman who had safety meetings every week in front of the supply trailer. Trailer was accessed by 2 pallets leaned against it to use as ladders.
A safety officer told me last year that if a lanyard ever gets used to lift an object, it cannot be used again for safety. So who keeps up and documents that? Each lanyard would need its own safety officer to follow it around 24/7 and certify it each day. Or use the honor system & each of us report ourselves if we ever slip up & lift a tape measure or tool bag with it. Or we could spy on each other & snitch.
A safety officer constantly lectured us on ladder stickers, to keep them clean, not scuff them, etc. I talked to a guy whose company sprayed clear coat on their ladders & it helped protect the ladders. I suggested that to the officer. She said we couldn’t do that without documentation from the manufacturer that it would not weaken the ladder. Our ladders were marked with paint. I asked her if the paint had been certified to be safe. She called me a smart aleck. She also brought us out stepladders to use in trenches, propped up against the side. We had all just been lectured about only using stepladders spread out. I asked about legality of this and asked if there weren’t special trench ladders we could get. She said she didn’t know. Took me 10 minutes on Google to see some. I texted pics to her & she didn’t speak to me the rest of the week.
I had one boss that did safety meetings every Monday morning & it was the usual, not pulling plugs by the cord kind of stuff. We had a trailer for the scizzor lift that had a badly cracked board. I stayed after him for 6 months to fix it. He had every excuse under the sun not to & said just avoid the crack. He finally had it fixed when 2 others fussed about it.
I recall a foreman who had safety meetings every week in front of the supply trailer. Trailer was accessed by 2 pallets leaned against it to use as ladders.
