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<blockquote data-quote="WhereDoIWorkAgain" data-source="post: 1071628" data-attributes="member: 44948"><p>As a clarification, I was on the ground about 12' to the left of the hourly and underneath the belt on my way out the front door from the hourly at his pick-off point as he was sorting boxes between his two loads. I heard him call-out "leaker" to his part-time sup, who was approaching on the ground toward me from the direction the belt travels. The part time sup was approx the same distance to my right. As kis said we have a weird relationship with safety, as long as you are meeting goals, and we aren't being audited safety is making sure that there are no injuries severe enough to have paperwork filed on them. The hourlies and management have an understanding that cuts and contusions get shown to the sup on break or at the end of shift, the next shift the management asks the hourly if they are ok, if they can work normally its all good, if not they get put on a light area or pick-off. Long term injuries are to be worked through until insurance pays for getting surgery on them. Moderate injuries you try and talk the hourly out of filing injury reports assuring them that they will be put on light duty till healed. Severe injuries you have no real choice but to file on. We've had a couple of people sort for weeks with a splint on their hand from broken fingers that occurred and no paperwork was done. There was also a broken ankle from falling off of a load stand that wasn't reported either. </p><p></p><p>Its also humorous how due to our building being older everyone knows that most of the c slides in the building are going to buckle and fall every time a box over 25 to 30 lbs is put on them. This means they are ignored save when an audit is going on. The safety chains on the top of many ladders as either totally ineffectual as they are at heights where most employees would just flip over or slid under if they lost their footing, we even have two that are required to be closed where in order for them to do anything the employee would have to fall up 3 or more feet up a ladder. Those exist only to cause an employee pause while climbing take a hand off of the ladder rail and disconnect or connect the safety chain. Others are 20+ year old thin pot metal spot welded to a rail, if someone over 150 or so lbs actually fell into it the chain would either separate or the weld break. Its lip service at best and ironic comedy at worst.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WhereDoIWorkAgain, post: 1071628, member: 44948"] As a clarification, I was on the ground about 12' to the left of the hourly and underneath the belt on my way out the front door from the hourly at his pick-off point as he was sorting boxes between his two loads. I heard him call-out "leaker" to his part-time sup, who was approaching on the ground toward me from the direction the belt travels. The part time sup was approx the same distance to my right. As kis said we have a weird relationship with safety, as long as you are meeting goals, and we aren't being audited safety is making sure that there are no injuries severe enough to have paperwork filed on them. The hourlies and management have an understanding that cuts and contusions get shown to the sup on break or at the end of shift, the next shift the management asks the hourly if they are ok, if they can work normally its all good, if not they get put on a light area or pick-off. Long term injuries are to be worked through until insurance pays for getting surgery on them. Moderate injuries you try and talk the hourly out of filing injury reports assuring them that they will be put on light duty till healed. Severe injuries you have no real choice but to file on. We've had a couple of people sort for weeks with a splint on their hand from broken fingers that occurred and no paperwork was done. There was also a broken ankle from falling off of a load stand that wasn't reported either. Its also humorous how due to our building being older everyone knows that most of the c slides in the building are going to buckle and fall every time a box over 25 to 30 lbs is put on them. This means they are ignored save when an audit is going on. The safety chains on the top of many ladders as either totally ineffectual as they are at heights where most employees would just flip over or slid under if they lost their footing, we even have two that are required to be closed where in order for them to do anything the employee would have to fall up 3 or more feet up a ladder. Those exist only to cause an employee pause while climbing take a hand off of the ladder rail and disconnect or connect the safety chain. Others are 20+ year old thin pot metal spot welded to a rail, if someone over 150 or so lbs actually fell into it the chain would either separate or the weld break. Its lip service at best and ironic comedy at worst. [/QUOTE]
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