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<blockquote data-quote="UPS Lifer" data-source="post: 925749" data-attributes="member: 9789"><p>Sober, </p><p>Two of the three posts, I agree with you whole-heartedly... As I have seen before, the little devil inside you brings out your conspiracy theory about big bad UPS. I was heavily involved with safety in many of my jobs. In all my years, (and I spent time on the district staff and I was involved with our region and corporate departments as well) no management person or committee EVER put a rule or method in place, PURPOSELY, so that you would have to break another rule or method. As you know, accidents and injuries are investigated and assigned a reason of how it could have been prevented. Because we are human and make mistakes, chances are that we could have prevented our accident or injury based on the standard methods. Some of us have to rationalize why we could not have prevented the accident and injury, instead of taking responsibility for the mistake. </p><p></p><p>My guess is that a district safety (or region) manager decided based on their lack of experience behind the wheel (or just plane stupidity or trying to make a name for him/herself) that this would save the company X amount of dollars in broken mirrors. </p><p></p><p>The safety manager failed to get drivers and operators involved AND failed to test it. It is completely asinine and at some point the district will pull back from this method (or just ignore it). </p><p></p><p>The test comes in when a driver is charged for an accident and there is absolutely no basis for pulling the mirror in but that is why he/she is disciplined. This will not fly with a panel or any other investigative body. </p><p></p><p>I cannot tell you to ignore this rule but I can tell you to use good common sense (as you have said above) and protect your body and minimize use of end-range motion. If you are unable to minimize end-range motion something needs to be changed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="UPS Lifer, post: 925749, member: 9789"] Sober, Two of the three posts, I agree with you whole-heartedly... As I have seen before, the little devil inside you brings out your conspiracy theory about big bad UPS. I was heavily involved with safety in many of my jobs. In all my years, (and I spent time on the district staff and I was involved with our region and corporate departments as well) no management person or committee EVER put a rule or method in place, PURPOSELY, so that you would have to break another rule or method. As you know, accidents and injuries are investigated and assigned a reason of how it could have been prevented. Because we are human and make mistakes, chances are that we could have prevented our accident or injury based on the standard methods. Some of us have to rationalize why we could not have prevented the accident and injury, instead of taking responsibility for the mistake. My guess is that a district safety (or region) manager decided based on their lack of experience behind the wheel (or just plane stupidity or trying to make a name for him/herself) that this would save the company X amount of dollars in broken mirrors. The safety manager failed to get drivers and operators involved AND failed to test it. It is completely asinine and at some point the district will pull back from this method (or just ignore it). The test comes in when a driver is charged for an accident and there is absolutely no basis for pulling the mirror in but that is why he/she is disciplined. This will not fly with a panel or any other investigative body. I cannot tell you to ignore this rule but I can tell you to use good common sense (as you have said above) and protect your body and minimize use of end-range motion. If you are unable to minimize end-range motion something needs to be changed. [/QUOTE]
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