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<blockquote data-quote="Integrity" data-source="post: 794445" data-attributes="member: 26800"><p>To All Interested,</p><p> </p><p>I appreciate the renewed interest and spirited dialogue that this post has recently generated.</p><p> </p><p>Thanks to all contributors!</p><p> </p><p>Please help me further develop this thread; if you will.</p><p> </p><p>Remember, the integrity issue is not the designated walk path training and methods, that is the example.</p><p> </p><p><strong>The integrity issue exists when local level management direct their subordinates, hourly or management to violate UPS safety training or work methods.</strong></p><p> </p><p>This is not about walking on sidewalks or lawns.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Please respond to the following fictitious example:</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px">A UPS driver, while walking across a lawn steps on an upside down rake. The rake catapults up and hits him or her right in the face. </span></strong></p><p> </p><p>The force of the blow not only breaks the driver's nose but it causes the driver to fall and in order to break the fall the driver extends his or her arms resulting in a broken arm.</p><p> </p><p>The accident scene is a residential delivery in an upper middle class subdivision. The home has a beautiful front yard with a beautiful walk way leading from the side walk to the front door.</p><p> </p><p>In this driver's building their have been a number of slips and falls injuries recently. On the morning of the accident the <strong>Safety Committee</strong> did a PCM about staying on designated walk paths.</p><p> </p><p>At the PCM the term "designated walk path" was clearly defined by the members of the safety committee as the walkways provided by the customers to the front and rear entrances of their home.</p><p> </p><p><strong>The safety committee's position was that cutting across a lawn is not a designated walk path unless there is no other alternative. </strong></p><p> </p><p>Prior to leaving the driver involved in the accident asked a management person if that meant he couldn't cut across lawns as he customarily did on many of his stops.</p><p> </p><p>The management person said "absolutely not. You're a professional. Use your own best judgement. Do what you have to do, just don't get hurt."</p><p> </p><p>The driver using his best judgement decided to cross the lawn.</p><p> </p><p>The customer liked to keep the lawn healthy and left it just long enough to be healthy, but it was also just long enough to completely conceal the rake that was left on the lawn. </p><p> </p><p>The driver <strong>was</strong> scanning his or her walk path but did not see the rake that smashed him or her in the face causing the injuries stated above. </p><p> </p><p>The driver also followed <strong>all</strong> other safe work methods.</p><p> </p><p>The injury investigation report is going to be taken by the management person he had the conversation with that morning regarding the PCM.</p><p> </p><p>How do you think the management person is going to handle this injury investigation report for this<strong><u> unavoidable</u></strong> injury?</p><p> </p><p>I am interested to know your predictions as to the response.</p><p> </p><p>Sincerely,</p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 22px">I</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Integrity, post: 794445, member: 26800"] To All Interested, I appreciate the renewed interest and spirited dialogue that this post has recently generated. Thanks to all contributors! Please help me further develop this thread; if you will. Remember, the integrity issue is not the designated walk path training and methods, that is the example. [B]The integrity issue exists when local level management direct their subordinates, hourly or management to violate UPS safety training or work methods.[/B] This is not about walking on sidewalks or lawns. [B]Please respond to the following fictitious example:[/B] [B][SIZE=3]A UPS driver, while walking across a lawn steps on an upside down rake. The rake catapults up and hits him or her right in the face. [/SIZE][/B] The force of the blow not only breaks the driver's nose but it causes the driver to fall and in order to break the fall the driver extends his or her arms resulting in a broken arm. The accident scene is a residential delivery in an upper middle class subdivision. The home has a beautiful front yard with a beautiful walk way leading from the side walk to the front door. In this driver's building their have been a number of slips and falls injuries recently. On the morning of the accident the [B]Safety Committee[/B] did a PCM about staying on designated walk paths. At the PCM the term "designated walk path" was clearly defined by the members of the safety committee as the walkways provided by the customers to the front and rear entrances of their home. [B]The safety committee's position was that cutting across a lawn is not a designated walk path unless there is no other alternative. [/B] Prior to leaving the driver involved in the accident asked a management person if that meant he couldn't cut across lawns as he customarily did on many of his stops. The management person said "absolutely not. You're a professional. Use your own best judgement. Do what you have to do, just don't get hurt." The driver using his best judgement decided to cross the lawn. The customer liked to keep the lawn healthy and left it just long enough to be healthy, but it was also just long enough to completely conceal the rake that was left on the lawn. The driver [B]was[/B] scanning his or her walk path but did not see the rake that smashed him or her in the face causing the injuries stated above. The driver also followed [B]all[/B] other safe work methods. The injury investigation report is going to be taken by the management person he had the conversation with that morning regarding the PCM. How do you think the management person is going to handle this injury investigation report for this[B][U] unavoidable[/U][/B] injury? I am interested to know your predictions as to the response. Sincerely, [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=6]I[/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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