MR_Vengeance
United Parcel Survivor
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stay safe out there my friends...............
stay safe out there my friends...............
I am quite sure that the UPS driver will still be charged with an "avoidable" accident even though the other driver was drunk....the fine members of our "safety committee" will have a meeting, eat some doughnuts, and decide that our driver failed to properly regurgitate an acronym or a memorize a commentary. Lets take him out back to the "safety zone" and give him some stickers.
Are we going to have to hear this everytime someone posts an accident or injury situation on this site. We already know you despise safety committees. Are you the one with the wife who is the jesus christ of safety prevention activites at whatever company she works at?
If so why don't you just bring her in one day and heal all of us.
A more appropriate response here might be thank god the driver survived this event.
thank god the driver survived this event.
Unfortunately if it wasn't so true it wouldn't get brought up so often. We had a driver a few years back that was stopped at an intersection and a kid slid into him on an icy road and that driver got 3 days off unpaid until the "investigation" decided that he really wasn't at fault.
There are a lot of people inolved in safety committtees that are actually trying to make a difference. Shop stewards included. Its always easy to stand on the sidelines and badmouth their efforts but I think it reflects poorly on the person lobbing the grenades.
Any coward can stand on the sidelines and lob grenades.
Are you the one with the wife who is the jesus christ of safety prevention activites at whatever company she works at?
Any coward can stand on the sidelines and lob grenades.
You have perfected this.Any coward can stand on the sidelines and lob grenades.
then the point he made was not true?
We do investigate all accidents thoroughly. that case had nothing to do with safety committees sitting around eating donuts.
There are a lot of people inolved in safety committtees that are actually trying to make a difference.
Tie the safety committee members i see do it for the extra 10 hours of ot per week. Every monday they stand at the front door handing us flyers on avoiding unnecessary backing, but yet monday night we have to back into a diesel gas pump because our fuel island is blocked by parked feeder tractors. As you know this has gone on for some time and i even has a thread last december on it. But yet my safety committee has earned about 300 hours of overtime since last december without resolvving this issue.
I am glad that the driver is ok and its time that you guys start filing grievances for accidents. If ups can discipline you for them than it is a grievable occurance.
If the safety committees had any power then maybe they would force the hand of UPS. All they can do in my building is spread the acronyms. It's all corporate B.S. in the end.
since most of the Safety Committee members I know have been hand-picked by management and are given preferential treatment (easy dispatches, easy overtime etc.) in exchange for not "rocking the boat" when it comes to confronting the company on safety issues. No, its a lot easier to just grade some papers, hand out a few doughnuts and call it a day.
Statements like this are sooooooo insulting. None of the people I have met on safety committees get easier dispatches and for our efforts, we get the stinkeye from coworkers. All for an extra 1.5 hours a month.
TB
So, why do it???? Baby steps. Freaking baby steps. That's what it is going to take.
TB
I'm sorry, I think you may have misread the article. Only one person in the truck.the news report from the link stated that there were two drivers in the UPS truck???
i'm sure that only one of them was driving, i'll guess the other was a supervisor doing an OJS ride. or do they do things that much more different out there in California? why would two be in the cab, it doesn't look like a sleeper team tractor.
thanx,