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Has anyone been pulled into their center manager's office to recite the DOK question?
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<blockquote data-quote="BoogaBooga" data-source="post: 291941" data-attributes="member: 4600"><p>" You don't know them the following week, It's a warning letter. Has any driver been harrassed with these questions?"</p><p> </p><p>I suspect your nucklehead center manager is motivating you to learn the "Depth of Knowlege Safety Keys". I also suspect that some in your work group have not been grasping the importance of learning and applying these safe work practices. Where the heck is your Safety Co-Chair? The Co-Chair does represent the Union members. When your work group learns, recites, and applies these safe work practices, the number of injuries and accidents are reduced. No one comes to work wanting to have an injury or accident, so one's attitude must be on starting the day with safety, and arriving home safely. Being safe at your job is one of many protections afforded to you by the Teamsters Union. I am sorry that your Center Manager has resorted to intimidation, and your Union Safety Co-Chair has not stepped up to find another way for work groups to learn. Our work group was in a similar situation. Our goal was to create postivive learning enviroment. We accomplished that by 100% involvement, a contest, daily, oral, repetition over months. It wasn't easy, but it worked. The Number One Rule was "Recognition for What You do Know". It was personally rewarding for me to watch people over time grasp this knowledge, especially the ones that had trouble remembering. If I had to do over again, I would take 1 DOK section a month, and then add the next one, so people are not overwhelmed. People's minds are still on the job that they need to do, and needlessly upsetting them by stressed out memorization, is not fostering <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/FeltTip/happy2.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":happy2:" title="Happy2 :happy2:" data-shortname=":happy2:" /> "Safety as a Personal Value" at UPS.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BoogaBooga, post: 291941, member: 4600"] " You don't know them the following week, It's a warning letter. Has any driver been harrassed with these questions?" I suspect your nucklehead center manager is motivating you to learn the "Depth of Knowlege Safety Keys". I also suspect that some in your work group have not been grasping the importance of learning and applying these safe work practices. Where the heck is your Safety Co-Chair? The Co-Chair does represent the Union members. When your work group learns, recites, and applies these safe work practices, the number of injuries and accidents are reduced. No one comes to work wanting to have an injury or accident, so one's attitude must be on starting the day with safety, and arriving home safely. Being safe at your job is one of many protections afforded to you by the Teamsters Union. I am sorry that your Center Manager has resorted to intimidation, and your Union Safety Co-Chair has not stepped up to find another way for work groups to learn. Our work group was in a similar situation. Our goal was to create postivive learning enviroment. We accomplished that by 100% involvement, a contest, daily, oral, repetition over months. It wasn't easy, but it worked. The Number One Rule was "Recognition for What You do Know". It was personally rewarding for me to watch people over time grasp this knowledge, especially the ones that had trouble remembering. If I had to do over again, I would take 1 DOK section a month, and then add the next one, so people are not overwhelmed. People's minds are still on the job that they need to do, and needlessly upsetting them by stressed out memorization, is not fostering :happy2: "Safety as a Personal Value" at UPS. [/QUOTE]
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