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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1473191" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>UPS is required by OSHA to have Safety Committees.</p><p></p><p>Therefore, a budget is allocated specifically for this purpose and it is required that the budget be spent.</p><p></p><p>It is <em>not</em> required, nor is it even desired, that the Safety Committees actually <em>accomplish</em> anything; they simply need to generate enough paperwork to prove their own existence in case OSHA ever decides to do an audit.</p><p></p><p>The goal for UPS is for each operation to have a "Safety Committee in a bottle" that exists for its own sake and can be taken down off of the shelf to be shown to OSHA and then put away again. What UPS does NOT want...is a Safety Committee that demands any sort of changes to equipment, facilities or procedures. These changes cost <em>money</em>, and UPS's goal is for each Committee to spend <em>only</em> what is allocated to it and not one penny more.</p><p></p><p>Actually <em>fixing</em> unsafe equipment, overcrowded facilities or unrealistic production standards would require the company to make a significant financial investment above and beyond what is budgeted for each Safety Committee. Improvements can be expensive; acronyms, word games and water bottles are <em>cheap </em>and they allow the company to comply with OSHA without the risk of spending any additional money.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1473191, member: 14668"] UPS is required by OSHA to have Safety Committees. Therefore, a budget is allocated specifically for this purpose and it is required that the budget be spent. It is [I]not[/I] required, nor is it even desired, that the Safety Committees actually [I]accomplish[/I] anything; they simply need to generate enough paperwork to prove their own existence in case OSHA ever decides to do an audit. The goal for UPS is for each operation to have a "Safety Committee in a bottle" that exists for its own sake and can be taken down off of the shelf to be shown to OSHA and then put away again. What UPS does NOT want...is a Safety Committee that demands any sort of changes to equipment, facilities or procedures. These changes cost [I]money[/I], and UPS's goal is for each Committee to spend [I]only[/I] what is allocated to it and not one penny more. Actually [I]fixing[/I] unsafe equipment, overcrowded facilities or unrealistic production standards would require the company to make a significant financial investment above and beyond what is budgeted for each Safety Committee. Improvements can be expensive; acronyms, word games and water bottles are [I]cheap [/I]and they allow the company to comply with OSHA without the risk of spending any additional money. [/QUOTE]
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