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<blockquote data-quote="tieguy" data-source="post: 747892" data-attributes="member: 1912"><p>the credibility of the process is critical. the difference between fault and avoidability still confuses some people.</p><p> </p><p> We generally have accidents charged avoidable on a 2 to 1 ratio. </p><p> </p><p>the one thing about joining the safety process would be that you get more insight into the details and you get a chance to impact the decisoion with your insight.</p><p>unfortunately our people dont always do a good job of acceptiing blame and will spin the details. Joining the process gives you the details and not the biased commentary of those involved.</p><p> </p><p> I had a shop steward in a safety meeting arguing for a driver who pulled a trailer off the door and pulled an unloader out onto the concrete. I was fine with his arguements until he used the word allegedly to describe the unloaders injuries. At that point I had to remind him that as a member of the safety committee it was also his responsibility to represent the interests of the unloader as well as the driver.</p><p> </p><p>I make that point because the crebility of the process requires that both management and the union evaluate the event outside their normal roles. Doing so objectively you do find that while there are exceptions there often are things our driver could have reasonably done to avoid that accident. Our job as part of the process is to find out what we can do to avoid the accident and then train our workgroup to do so.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tieguy, post: 747892, member: 1912"] the credibility of the process is critical. the difference between fault and avoidability still confuses some people. We generally have accidents charged avoidable on a 2 to 1 ratio. the one thing about joining the safety process would be that you get more insight into the details and you get a chance to impact the decisoion with your insight. unfortunately our people dont always do a good job of acceptiing blame and will spin the details. Joining the process gives you the details and not the biased commentary of those involved. I had a shop steward in a safety meeting arguing for a driver who pulled a trailer off the door and pulled an unloader out onto the concrete. I was fine with his arguements until he used the word allegedly to describe the unloaders injuries. At that point I had to remind him that as a member of the safety committee it was also his responsibility to represent the interests of the unloader as well as the driver. I make that point because the crebility of the process requires that both management and the union evaluate the event outside their normal roles. Doing so objectively you do find that while there are exceptions there often are things our driver could have reasonably done to avoid that accident. Our job as part of the process is to find out what we can do to avoid the accident and then train our workgroup to do so. [/QUOTE]
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