Have your sup. show you exactly where in the contract it is worded. { he/she will not be able to find it } and you repeatly inform him/her about this fact.
Whoever gave that PCM is just a fearful little maroon who is feeling the heat from above to make his numbers and satisfy a corporate edict. Mindless regurgitation of acronyms, buzzwords and slogans is not a condition of employment at UPS. If you want to nip this crap in the bud, tell all of your coworkers to deliberately miss every question. Lets see just how eager your sup is to suspend his entire workforce....methinks he will get the message and come up with a more effective and appropriate method to motivate his people.
There is a fundamental difference between agreeing that employees should know safety methods....and agreeing that employees can be FIRED for failing to regurgitate acronyms on cue like a trained parakeet. The fact that your BA gave a nod of agreement during a PCM doesnt mean that the contract allows the company to terminate your employment for failing to score 100% on a silly word game. Any management person who would threaten termination for failure to recite commentary is not only ignorant of the labor agreement but totally incompetent at managing his workforce.
When I started, there was no safety committee. I was dispatched with 14 hour days in a vehicle with no 3 point seat belt, no power steering, and absolutely no regard made for the safety of the driver. I work in a building that is overcrowded to the point of being dangerous, with chronic egress problems and a total lack of room for the preload to safely handle packages and employ proper lifting methods. It is difficult for me to take UPS seriously on issues of safety when they refuse to solve any of these problems and yet insist upon us memorizing acronyms and participating in childish, 3rd grade word games in order to maintain the illusion of concern for our safety.
It wouldnt really be that hard for the company to retrofit its older vehicles with 3 point belts and power steering, either....but our lives as employees have been deemed by Corporate to be unworthy of the expense. They dont give a damn about us....so why should we give a damn about allowing them to score 100% on their stupid Keter audit? If the damn audit is so important to them, then negotiate it into the contract. Until then....it is nothing more than a stupid, childish,irrelevant, kindergarten-level word game that is totally unworthy of my time and mental energy to play.
Remind them of this pcm when you turn off the belt because the flow is to heavy and your safety is at risk. Or when you cleaning up the grating because its overflowed with packages.
I recite the little sing-song too. I attend the required safety PCM's, and spoon-feed my management the acronyms they want to hear. If thats what they want to pay me to do, then so be it. I simply refuse to place any importance in it, or to be intimidated into thinking that passing the test actually matters.
