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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 990960" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>Here is the <em>reality</em> of Safety and Wellness committees.</p><p></p><p>The company is obligated, under both the labor agreement and OSHA compliance, to have Safety Committees in each operation. It is NOT, however, required...nor is it even desired... to allow those Committees to actually<em> accomplish</em> anything.</p><p></p><p>The Committees are treated by Corporate as a fixed operational expense. A budget is drawn up, and the money is allocated. The primary goal of the company is to make sure that the Committees do <em>not</em> act in a way that could require the company to spend any <em>additional</em> funds on improvements to equipment or facilities.</p><p></p><p>The easiest way to accomplish this...is to create "a committee in a bottle" that focuses strictly on the "4 A's"----Awareness, Asessments, Acronyms and Audits. Under<em> no</em> circumstances can the Committees be allowed to hold the company accountable on any<em> real</em> safety issues related to policies, procedures, equipment or facilities. Improvements in<em> these</em> areas could potentially cost the company <em>huge</em> sums of money, whereas the "4 A's" are pretty much fixed costs that can simply be fit into the existing Safety Comittee budget and allow the company to be in compliance with the relevant contract and OSHA language.</p><p></p><p>It costs a lot more money to<em> fix </em>problems than it does to <em>talk</em> about them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 990960, member: 14668"] Here is the [I]reality[/I] of Safety and Wellness committees. The company is obligated, under both the labor agreement and OSHA compliance, to have Safety Committees in each operation. It is NOT, however, required...nor is it even desired... to allow those Committees to actually[I] accomplish[/I] anything. The Committees are treated by Corporate as a fixed operational expense. A budget is drawn up, and the money is allocated. The primary goal of the company is to make sure that the Committees do [I]not[/I] act in a way that could require the company to spend any [I]additional[/I] funds on improvements to equipment or facilities. The easiest way to accomplish this...is to create "a committee in a bottle" that focuses strictly on the "4 A's"----Awareness, Asessments, Acronyms and Audits. Under[I] no[/I] circumstances can the Committees be allowed to hold the company accountable on any[I] real[/I] safety issues related to policies, procedures, equipment or facilities. Improvements in[I] these[/I] areas could potentially cost the company [I]huge[/I] sums of money, whereas the "4 A's" are pretty much fixed costs that can simply be fit into the existing Safety Comittee budget and allow the company to be in compliance with the relevant contract and OSHA language. It costs a lot more money to[I] fix [/I]problems than it does to [I]talk[/I] about them. [/QUOTE]
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