Safety rant.

I have many places make me wear safety glasses but they are unsafe as in order to see I need perception but those glasses that fit over will not stay up spend more time focused on keeping them on ir picking them off the ground than should and NOT focused on task at hand so off they come sorry I prefer to TRULY be safe than give the appearance.
Oh and I am not buying prescription safety glasses for the three or four times a year I am required to have them.

 

Was that you I seen do a back flop off the top step? At least the sandwitch had a bag to keep the dirt out.

 

I have more trouble getting out than in by hey its easier to fall than climb falling gravity takes over climbing is work lol

 

They could eliminate some of that waste by eliminating some of those pencil pushers! Just say'n!

 

Perhaps, wearing the Orange Safety vest was a concession that they do not know how to respond to their company trucks hitting objects other than by saying do hit my driver.

 

When I was interviewing with Trimac one of their questions was.

Has a shipper/reciever ever asked you to do something that would be bad for your company

I told them i couldn't think of anything.

She gave an example of a shipper/receiver asking me to move a pallet/garbage that was in the way of my loading/unloading process.

I of course responded why would that be a problem? I do far more dangerous things than that on a daily basis as a flatbedder

Her response was what about the liability if i got injured moving a pallet or garbage can. I #### you not i barely held a straight face...

When my friends and family asked me how the interview went i told them that this is the best paying job I've ever even seen to exist, but I'm going to ####### hate it. I still would have done it for the money as long as my sanity could have handled it if they had chosen me.

Over here in the flatbed world they have stupid rules just like they do in the tanker world, but the difference is i ignore all of them and nobody really cares. I know what's safe to do and i do it. I couldn't care less what some paper pusher who can't even shift a truck thinks about what i do and i'll gladly tell em that.

 

I went to one plant in Canada where during part 2 of check-in I noticed 2 respirator kits and a roll of duct tape behind glass. I asked the 2 guys in the building where is an extra respirator kit for me, and why the duct tape. They smirk and comment the 2 kits are for them, the tape is to seal the windows and doors, and I am to jump in my truck and good luck.

 

Safety rules are designed, like most things in our society, for the lowest common denominator....i.e. the morons among us.

I haul frac sand to oil well frac jobs. Some pumping companies insist on us wearing respirators for the dust we create unloading. Fine, if I'm in the dust cloud, if not why bother, right?

Couple of weeks ago this situation presents itself......I am unloading into an onsite silo, where almost no dust comes off at ground level. The dust being created is the crew unloading sand from the silos onto the belt that takes it to the blender. I am upwind of the dust cloud, standing in bright sunshine with nary a spec of sand dust coming within 100 feet of me. Safety guy walks by (no respirator on, this comes into play) and points to his face then to me...put on your respirator. I calmly walk over to him and ask "where are you heading after passing through here"? He points right where the dense dust cloud is lingering..so I ask where his respirator is...he gives me the usual "???" look...so I point out to him "you're telling me I have to put on my respirator, even though there's no silica dust anywhere near me, and indicate that you're about to walk into that dense silica dust cloud with no respirator"....he says as a sand truck I have to wear one...I ask how about the "health" of all those people around the pumper trucks and wellhead area that are actually breathing the stuff in right now and have no masks?....now he's getting mad...I ask him for a JSA, which he'll have to get from the company man (representative of the oil company who owns the well)...Why, he asks...I say doesn't matter why, if I ask for one you are required to give me one (as mentioned on every safety video I've seen)...he stammers something about something then moves along, not to be seen again let alone bring me my JSA. (for those unfamiliar, JSA is Jobsite Safety Analysis...some oil companies require everyone who enters a job site to fill one out every time you come in, anyone can request one if they see something that they deem unsafe)

Safety people have to justify their existence like everyone else that has a job that isn't actually productive or accretive to the bottom line.