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Poor Safety Culture? How is it in your building?
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<blockquote data-quote="djilo91" data-source="post: 1120727" data-attributes="member: 47099"><p>They don't care about safety as much as the say they do.</p><p>I work as a loader on the midnight shift, we get about 100k volume a night, giver or take a few grand depending on the say. My load gets about 1600 a night and used to be no problem. Until two people on the day sort in a different part of the building injured themselves on the belt at the end of an extendo. Anyone whos ever worked on one of them knows that that is pretty much impossible because the belt is flush tight to the end of the extendo, so youd literally have to lift the belt and shove ur fingers underneath to hurt yourself.</p><p></p><p>So how do they fix those injuries (which happened to 2 friends on the same day during the same shift, even though no one else has been injured that way the entire time the extendos have been here)?, easy, go to a different part of the building and remove the belts entirely and replace them with black plastic slides, that dont allow packages to slide, or the extendo to be raised or lowered. So this means that load stands are useless until your about 75% into a 53 footer. And you have to pull packages that are out of your power zone all night long, and the safety supes agree that this is the only way it can be done now, in loads that have as much volume as ours.</p><p></p><p>So basically load stand usage has dropped off, as well as working in your powerzone, and back injury has gone way up, because it was safer to remove the belts rather than actually research the other aspects that would be affected by a change like that.</p><p></p><p>Production has gone way down to, because all the loads run at about 100 pph less an hour now that you constantly need to pull the packages to you when they used to come down on there own.</p><p></p><p>/rant</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="djilo91, post: 1120727, member: 47099"] They don't care about safety as much as the say they do. I work as a loader on the midnight shift, we get about 100k volume a night, giver or take a few grand depending on the say. My load gets about 1600 a night and used to be no problem. Until two people on the day sort in a different part of the building injured themselves on the belt at the end of an extendo. Anyone whos ever worked on one of them knows that that is pretty much impossible because the belt is flush tight to the end of the extendo, so youd literally have to lift the belt and shove ur fingers underneath to hurt yourself. So how do they fix those injuries (which happened to 2 friends on the same day during the same shift, even though no one else has been injured that way the entire time the extendos have been here)?, easy, go to a different part of the building and remove the belts entirely and replace them with black plastic slides, that dont allow packages to slide, or the extendo to be raised or lowered. So this means that load stands are useless until your about 75% into a 53 footer. And you have to pull packages that are out of your power zone all night long, and the safety supes agree that this is the only way it can be done now, in loads that have as much volume as ours. So basically load stand usage has dropped off, as well as working in your powerzone, and back injury has gone way up, because it was safer to remove the belts rather than actually research the other aspects that would be affected by a change like that. Production has gone way down to, because all the loads run at about 100 pph less an hour now that you constantly need to pull the packages to you when they used to come down on there own. /rant [/QUOTE]
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