DOK's are a joke. Something for the bought-and-paid-for safety sups to prove their salary is justified. UPS only cares about safety as far as the legal department tells them to care.
If UPS really cared about safety they'd be handing out work gloves and hardhats to hub & center workers, and facemasks because of all the pulverized cardboard and god knows what else the workers are breathing in. But UPS doesn't care about breathing problems...that pneumonia could've come from anywhere, so because it's impossible to prove in court it came from the workplace UPS doesn't have a ROI in providing $1,000 in cheap facemasks per day to every nationwide worker. They'd rather cough up the fluke quarter-million dollar settlement per year rather than the $365,000 per year safety equipment. It's all about the numbers.
If UPS cared about safety half the feeders wouldn't be missing loadstands, the other loadstands wouldn't be 30 years old and falling apart, and the workers wouldn't have to lift 500 lb roller assemblies into place at the end of their shift because the antiquated pieces of
won't roll correctly anymore.
If UPS cared about safety 30 lb boxes of flammable and corrosive hazmats wouldn't be shoved down the belts getting dented and crushed by over-flooded belts because management was told to save a few pennies per shift and push more volume.
If UPS cared about safety their shift supervisors wouldn't be watching the security cameras around the building like a hawk, seeing if anyone "official" is coming down the walkway for an audit or surprise inspection and immediately blaring it on the walkie-talkie to the entire full-time managerial staff so that everyone starts dotting i's and crossing t's because god forbid a corporate suit (or worse, an OSHA suit) would see what a hub or center is REALLY run like and shut em down in a heartbeat.
The fact is, safety gets in the way of productivity. UPS will always hate safety. There's no ROI in safety unless it involves a multi-billion dollar OSHA fine. UPS will always legally fight against every safety expenditure with one exception: the act of preaching how safe the company is and keeping its image intact (and keeping government safety inspectors off their backs).
