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#workplace-safety
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Our safety manual tells us what to do after we’ve broken a safety rule. Is that a paradox?
Working the cranes, I read our safety manual more carefully than most. Rule 1: never enter the exclusion zone under a suspended load. Rule 2: if you find yourself in the exclusion zone, do not move; radio the operator and wait for…
Started by Hugo Marchetti4 replies -
The crane logs were falsified and reporting them might shut the terminal: what each theory told me
Last spring, as union delegate, I found out that maintenance records for one of the older gantry cranes at our terminal had been filled in for inspections that never happened. The crane was probably fine. The risk was small but real: a…
Started by Hugo Marchetti6 replies