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Safety By Committment/Not by Choice-Injuries and Accidents By Chance/ Not By Choice!
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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 853298" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p><strong>Re: Safety By Committment/Not by Choice-Injuries and Accidents By Chance/ Not By Choi</strong></p><p></p><p>The reality of the situation is that UPS's so-called "safety program" is not intended to <em>prevent</em> injuries <em>before</em> they occur: it is instead intended to <em>assign blame</em> for injuries <em>after</em> they occur.</p><p></p><p>If the company creates a long enough list of methods, procedures and policies for its employees to follow, it is inevitable that some of them will be conflicting and mutually exclusive of one another (I.E. we are required to avoid end-range motion while at the same time folding in our mirrors at every stop which is itself an end-range motion.) Once armed with this exhaustive list of methods....along with the 20/20 hindsight that is so easy to employ from behind a desk...the supervisor will <em>always</em> be able to invent a reason why the employee should have done something differently in any given situation where an injury or accident has occured. Its sort of like throwing a dart at the wall, drawing the dartboard <em>around</em> the point where it hit, and then giving yourself credit for a bullseye.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 853298, member: 14668"] [b]Re: Safety By Committment/Not by Choice-Injuries and Accidents By Chance/ Not By Choi[/b] The reality of the situation is that UPS's so-called "safety program" is not intended to [I]prevent[/I] injuries [I]before[/I] they occur: it is instead intended to [I]assign blame[/I] for injuries [I]after[/I] they occur. If the company creates a long enough list of methods, procedures and policies for its employees to follow, it is inevitable that some of them will be conflicting and mutually exclusive of one another (I.E. we are required to avoid end-range motion while at the same time folding in our mirrors at every stop which is itself an end-range motion.) Once armed with this exhaustive list of methods....along with the 20/20 hindsight that is so easy to employ from behind a desk...the supervisor will [I]always[/I] be able to invent a reason why the employee should have done something differently in any given situation where an injury or accident has occured. Its sort of like throwing a dart at the wall, drawing the dartboard [I]around[/I] the point where it hit, and then giving yourself credit for a bullseye. [/QUOTE]
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