anonymous4
Well-Known Member
Seems like a good way to bring more angst against their management team. How demoralizing is it to know that whatever happens it is your fault? Bad policy for the future but this is what happens... in "The Machine".
can you do me a favor and show your safety manager this message?A driver in our center who delivers in a very rural area ran over a yellow jackets nest while making a delivery( This strain of wasp nests in the ground,and cannot be seen unless you are right on top of the entrance ) he was stung dozens of times resulting in a trip to the Emergency Room.The Safety Manager decided the driver was at fault for the injury because he..............................wait for it.............................Didn't Expect the Unexpected. I am asking the safety committee to have the company purchase Bee Suits for all of the drivers so that we can be prepared for the unexpected
can you do me a favor and show your safety manager this message?
Dear SM,
I'm speaking to you in the capacity of steward. That being said, you have absolutely zero authority to dictate fault in regard to any and all injuries. You may only project opinion of avoidable or unavoidable to a specific injury for the company's perspective. This is only a strategy to deflect an employee from filing a workman's comp claim. I'll remind you that disciplining workers for reporting work injuries or illnesses is a violation and is not allowed since the law protects workers for exercising their OSHA rights. Thank you for your time.
A driver in our center who delivers in a very rural area ran over a yellow jackets nest while making a delivery( This strain of wasp nests in the ground,and cannot be seen unless you are right on top of the entrance ) he was stung dozens of times resulting in a trip to the Emergency Room.The Safety Manager decided the driver was at fault for the injury because he..............................wait for it.............................Didn't Expect the Unexpected. I am asking the safety committee to have the company purchase Bee Suits for all of the drivers so that we can be prepared for the unexpected
It doesn't sound like the steward is doing his job at all. If he was, this manager wouldn't even think to try this malarky.I am sure his center has stewards capable of doing their jobs just as effectively as you seem to feel that you do yours.
You are missing the point!!! Why should there be paperwork, lectures and OJS and all that other crap management makes us recite. Idiot suits should not be allowed to act this way!!! There should be some consequences to their dumb decisions.Yet more affirmation of the importance of not taking any of UPS's "safety programs" seriously.
The only thing that really matters here is that the driver is OK and he will not face any sort of disciplinary action. Whether or not some idiot in a suit decides to "charge" him for the injury is irrelevant. There will be paperwork, lectures, an OJS, and probably an hour or so reciting commentaries and regurgitating acronyms, but other than that nothing will change.
Yellowjackets are nasty critters. Unlike bees, they can sting you over and over and they are very aggressive. I have gotten stung twice already this year, once while I was going down the road at 55 MPH. Scary!
It doesn't sound like the steward is doing his job at all. If he was, this manager wouldn't even think to try this malarky.
I hope they are ok.We had an unloader attacked by fire ants last night.
I can only imagine how that accident report was written up.
We had an unloader attacked by fire ants last night.
I can only imagine how that accident report was written up.
Unbeelievable.............????