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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 678197" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p><span style="color: blue"></span></p><p> <span style="color: blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: blue">I have never disputed the fact that we need to memorize and utilize safe work methods.</span></p><p> <span style="color: blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: blue">Unfortunately, for UPS this is where safety begins <strong>and</strong> ends....with all of the focus on rote memorization of commentaries and word games and none of the focus on bona fide improvements to equipment and facilities.</span></p><p> <span style="color: blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: blue">Tieguy, you and I both want the same thing; a safer UPS. We just disagree on how to get there. You want to do safety "on the cheap" and shift all of the responsibility onto the employee while conveniently overlooking blatantly unsafe equipment and facilities.</span></p><p> <span style="color: blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: blue">I prefer a balanced approach that looks at<strong> all</strong> aspects of the problem, not just those that wont cost any money to fix.</span></p><p> <span style="color: blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: blue">Given an adequate supply of time and crackers, I could train a parakeet to recite the 10 point commentary and pass a Keter audit. That doesnt make the parakeet a safe driver. But, in UPS's eyes, passing the audit is all that matters.</span></p><p> <span style="color: blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: blue">If you want me....or the other employees....to take UPS safety programs seriously, then your actions need to match your words. When you make a business decision to dispatch a human being in a vehicle that was intentionally designed to allow his head to go thru the windshield during an accident, your actions are telling that employee that his life was not judged to be worth the expense of a 3 point belt and all of the commentaries and acronyms and buzzwords in the world will not change that fact.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 678197, member: 14668"] [COLOR=blue] I have never disputed the fact that we need to memorize and utilize safe work methods. Unfortunately, for UPS this is where safety begins [B]and[/B] ends....with all of the focus on rote memorization of commentaries and word games and none of the focus on bona fide improvements to equipment and facilities. Tieguy, you and I both want the same thing; a safer UPS. We just disagree on how to get there. You want to do safety "on the cheap" and shift all of the responsibility onto the employee while conveniently overlooking blatantly unsafe equipment and facilities. I prefer a balanced approach that looks at[B] all[/B] aspects of the problem, not just those that wont cost any money to fix. Given an adequate supply of time and crackers, I could train a parakeet to recite the 10 point commentary and pass a Keter audit. That doesnt make the parakeet a safe driver. But, in UPS's eyes, passing the audit is all that matters. If you want me....or the other employees....to take UPS safety programs seriously, then your actions need to match your words. When you make a business decision to dispatch a human being in a vehicle that was intentionally designed to allow his head to go thru the windshield during an accident, your actions are telling that employee that his life was not judged to be worth the expense of a 3 point belt and all of the commentaries and acronyms and buzzwords in the world will not change that fact.[/color] [/QUOTE]
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