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<blockquote data-quote="quad decade guy" data-source="post: 4187804" data-attributes="member: 77939"><p>I am a feeder driver. Been with the company a long time. We can't get the company to fix toilets let alone fix safety. You have no idea how expensive dock locks would be to install and maintain. Never gonna happen. However, there is a system in place that is relatively inexpensive and built right into the methods for a feeder driver. The driver gets out and physically looks in the trailer for workers. Simple.</p><p>If it's followed. But, we are missing a whole lot of back story here. I've had plenty of hourly and management go back into trailers that I have closed and coupled to. This whole situation was stupidly</p><p>avoidable. Almost all are. Example: I was standing at a UPS facility dock(closing my trailer door). I noticed the trailer next to mine get coupled. I never saw the driver physically check. As we were doing our pre-trips of the trailers, I asked the other driver if he looked to see if anyone was in the trailer. No. What? He said he never checks! Wow. Feeder drivers sign multiple documents every year and throughout the year explaining safety procedures. There's no way he didn't know. He just skipped that procedure because he is too lazy to get out of the truck. My experience with UPS is this: Safety is not number 1. Productivity(profit) is. You are expected to be safe while being productive. I believe management is willing to ignore unsafe work practices in the name of good numbers(productivity). Our yard is like the wild west....just hurry. </p><p></p><p>In the end, the worker will follow/not follow safe work methods to the extent management allows. If mgt. is lax, the worker is so. Don't believe it? Spend a few minutes at a hub and just observe. See if all the training/safe work methods are being practiced. Like people running, using straps on boxes, throwing pkgs., speeding on the yard, running stop signs, not wearing vests, use of electronic devices on the yard to even smoking in undesignated areas. It all adds up. To injuries and fatalities. Yes, death. </p><p></p><p>It is up to the worker to follow the safe work methods/practices. It's up to mgt. to enforce them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="quad decade guy, post: 4187804, member: 77939"] I am a feeder driver. Been with the company a long time. We can't get the company to fix toilets let alone fix safety. You have no idea how expensive dock locks would be to install and maintain. Never gonna happen. However, there is a system in place that is relatively inexpensive and built right into the methods for a feeder driver. The driver gets out and physically looks in the trailer for workers. Simple. If it's followed. But, we are missing a whole lot of back story here. I've had plenty of hourly and management go back into trailers that I have closed and coupled to. This whole situation was stupidly avoidable. Almost all are. Example: I was standing at a UPS facility dock(closing my trailer door). I noticed the trailer next to mine get coupled. I never saw the driver physically check. As we were doing our pre-trips of the trailers, I asked the other driver if he looked to see if anyone was in the trailer. No. What? He said he never checks! Wow. Feeder drivers sign multiple documents every year and throughout the year explaining safety procedures. There's no way he didn't know. He just skipped that procedure because he is too lazy to get out of the truck. My experience with UPS is this: Safety is not number 1. Productivity(profit) is. You are expected to be safe while being productive. I believe management is willing to ignore unsafe work practices in the name of good numbers(productivity). Our yard is like the wild west....just hurry. In the end, the worker will follow/not follow safe work methods to the extent management allows. If mgt. is lax, the worker is so. Don't believe it? Spend a few minutes at a hub and just observe. See if all the training/safe work methods are being practiced. Like people running, using straps on boxes, throwing pkgs., speeding on the yard, running stop signs, not wearing vests, use of electronic devices on the yard to even smoking in undesignated areas. It all adds up. To injuries and fatalities. Yes, death. It is up to the worker to follow the safe work methods/practices. It's up to mgt. to enforce them. [/QUOTE]
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