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mostlyharmless:
We just had an HPI audit from folks across the industry,nuclear that is, and I understand that commercial is using HPI a lot more than doe. Is this true? How about BBS? Please see HPI and BBS topics. Please post there.
The purpose of this forum topic is to describe the safety culture at the place where you work. What formal or informal tools are used? Also to share experiences and lessons learned. If you are a safety professional please describe possible carear paths and any training or education to get there, and what is the job ( and title) like.
All this being said please don't limit the discussion. Complain, warn, bragg, I don't care as long as you talk about safety. Make new topics if you want, but please post. What I see so far is very good.
I myself would like to know more about the math behind safety analysis, and what goes into a TSR or AB. I know a lot of work goes into it but I woulds like to know more specifically how it is done.
Thank you for your posts and though the subject is serious and often sounds like a cliche, please don't hesitate to add some humor. MH
mostlyharmless:
Over 5900 views. Post,post and more post. See previous post.
mostlyharmless:
If we were talking about gay safety,safety in the navy,or gay safety in the navy.Road tech vs.house tech safety.Womens safety,or transvestite house techs formerly in the navy that want to go on the road, I bet there would be more posts. I realize the subject is not as fun as a good complaint or a clever shot at someone, but you can still show off your intellect and add to the collection of information this site represents and make the community as a whole better. Sound good? Sound like bs? Help me out here. I know its a big world, I,ve been there. And I met a lot of bright people there, so post. If not registered then do so and post.
Why won't sharks eat Bruce? Professional courtesy. Just kidding, thought I would redirect for a second. I know, its an old lawyer joke but I like it. And I never met Bruce. Don't post about Bruce here please. Its 0130 on my third night into my shift and I am digressing rapidly. Breaking my own rule of not posting while sleep deprived . MH
HydroDave63:
--- Quote from: WTF on Apr 10, 2010, 08:32 --- Workers MUST respect the safety department in order to work safe.
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You WILL respect my auth-or-i-tah!
Chimera:
--- Quote from: WTF on Apr 10, 2010, 08:32 ---Workers MUST respect the safety department in order to work safe. Again, SPOT ON DUDE 8)
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I've stewed on this comment for a while, but I'm going to comment on it anyway.
Respecting the safety department has nothing to do with working safe. Respecting the real and potential hazards in the workplace has everything to do with working safe. If the safety department isn't out there in the workplace, they garner no respect - and deservedly so. The "safety guy" on my current project is great at running off at the mouth but does nothing to reinforce safety or a safety culture. What he does would be tantamount to me telling the workers they are in a contaminated area and they'd better put up a rope and some signs - and then walking away.
By the same token, I would have no reason to expect my crew to have any respect for me if I attempted to run the job from my desk and/or if I rushed in with my critiques after the fact. They listen because I'm there with them. I attempt to head off bad situations with whatever advice I can offer based on my own experiences in similar situations and my knowledge of the job(s) they're covering. Additionally, I freely praise them for doing good work and exercising personal initiative - even if that initiative is exercised after first discussing the situation with me. I trust their judgement and they trust mine only because we work together as a team. Again, if I tried to do that while sitting on my butt in my office, they wouldn't listen or respond near as well - and I would have no good reason to expect them to.
I don't think it matters too much which "safety system" is used. What does matter is that whatever that system is, it must be conscientiously applied in the field and continuously reinforced every day. Waiting until someone slips and falls in an oil spill is not "safety". Safety is being there to get the spill cleaned up before someone slips and falls . . . or loses their hearing or a finger or falls or starts a fire or runs into a scaffold pole or any number of the thousands of thinks that could occur every day on the job. Once the workers start to see that, then they will begin to respect the safety department because they will realize that safety is really their job and not just their job title.
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