perhaps you could elaborate. In fact put yourself into managements shoes and teach defensive driving to me.
How do I know a driver can safely clear an intersection if he can't explain it to me?
How do I know a sorter or driver can correctly lift a package using his leg muscles if he can't explain and demonstrate the process to me?
turn off the idiot supervisors comments who was stupid enough to threaten a discharge when he had no legs to stand on and focus on the actual training aspect of being able to recite this information. If you can't explain defensive driving and safe work methods then guess what you ain't doing it.
Sure, I'll elaborate for you. All of it is meaningless in the end because you and nobody else in management actually care about safety. You talk this big game with acronyms, keywords and other jargon and then turn around and claim that everything is avoidable. The entire system is built around placing blame on the employee. Of course everything could have been prevented; every fall, every slip, every accident...if you have days and weeks to question the decision made by someone that had one second. Everything that is "taught" at UPS falls under preventive instead of proactive. The company and the management team have absolutely no interest in making the environment at UPS less hazardous ($$$). Instead they sit around a table and dream up ways to blame people for costing them money. So lets recap, instead of spending money to better the operation and reduce the real-time chances of someone getting injured -- they make up rules for free.
Lets take a stroll down memory lane, shall we:
1) Slips in the middle of the back of the truck on the *METAL* floor on a bitter cold icy day. -- Avoidable, 3 points of contact.
- Nevermind the fact the entire length of the floor in the truck should have a antislip coating or industrial rubber on it. That's crazy talk! $$$$$$$
2) Old lady rear ends you at a 4 way stop-sign intersection. -- Avoidable, should have seen her coming in the side mirrors and moved out of the way. See you at the panel.
- What are you kidding me? Yeah, you should of pulled out into the intersection, durrrr.
3) Cut your shin severely getting into the truck. You used 3 points of contact you say? Still slipped up that 21" metal step huh. Well did you look down first...Oh you didn't, avoidable, check your mailbox for a warning letter.
- Who the hell is to say someone wouldn't slip just because they were LOOKING somewhere? Getting the picture yet? Everything is avoidable from behind a desk.
4) You died from carbon monoxide poisoning while driving 65mph and killed a family of 5? Avoidable, you should have sheeted the problem up in the DVIR (which has gone missing since the accident) and shouldn't have kept the doors closed. Oh by the way your family isn't going to be taken care of because you were grossly negligent.
- Safety is priority one at UPS. Oh by the way, we dispatched you with 13hrs but nobody can go over 9.5 today, be safe out there.
Prove to the employees that you actually care about safety and then I'll think about reciting UPS poems at 8AM. Get rid of the junkers that leak center manager into the cab. File down all the sharp edges in the truck. Put some real handrails on the sides of the truck. Rubberize the floors. Scrap any truck that doesn't have power steering, aren't you tired of paying out for rotator cuff, cheaper to hope for the best huh? Get rid of high steps on the trucks, cheaper to pray that you wont get knee/hip problems huh? Stop telling everyone to "RECORD" their lunch and tell them "TAKE YOUR FULL HOUR LUNCH BETWEEN 1PM-2PM AND PUT IT IN THE DIAD", you aren't fooling anyone with your sneaky way of telling people to skip it. You don't care about safety, please stop acting like you do.