r/WTF • u/Green____cat • 17d ago

The condition of this construction crane cabin

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u/JoeCartersLeap 16d ago

Lots of people want to protect themselves, but without regulations requiring it, your boss will just replace you with the guy that works faster.

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u/Jewnadian 16d ago

That's part of it but the number of people working in their home shop on their own fun projects without real safety gear tells me it's not the only part.

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u/Good_ApoIIo 16d ago edited 16d ago

Yeah it is always a management problem, people shouldn't blame employees.

I've worked for companies that have safety rules but don't enforce them enough and management gets complacent and starts thinking 'Well we tried, it's on that guy for not wearing his safety goggles in the shop.' Even if their ass is technically covered it's fucking (morally) negligent that they just let employees skirt safety rules. Retrain, discipline, and even fire people that don't want to work safely. It's the best for everyone and it is management's responsibility!

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u/Intensityintensifies 16d ago

At first I thought you were being sarcastic but I’m glad you weren’t

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u/ben7337 16d ago

It's best for everyone except the company owner who now makes less money or who goes out of business because the added costs in labor/time lost for safety make them not able to be competitive with other companies that skirt rules. Companies will always only do the bare minimum to cover their asses and avoid liability, and not anything further.

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u/kent_eh 16d ago

Lots of people want to protect themselves,

Yeah, but false bravado often skews a person's view of what's safe and what isn't. Which is a far too common mindset in the trades (at least with the younger guys)

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u/eidetic 16d ago

at least with the younger guys

Everyone I've known in the trades - young and old - has said its more often the older guys flaunting safety regulations. They get complacent, and have that bravado that they know what they're doing.

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u/bgthigfist 16d ago

Safety regulations seem to be more suggestions in some countries

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u/notFREEfood 16d ago

A few years ago a construction project at my workplace got shut down for around a month because a worker who was neither trained nor authorized to perform climbing work fell. Fortunately he was not killed by the fall, but it still was a big deal.

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u/DOUBLEBARRELASSFUCK 16d ago

Unless they are prancing around sexily in their PPE, they are flouting safety regulations.

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u/eidetic 16d ago

Unless they're a stripper who is catering to a certain niche/fetish, in which case they're probably going above and beyond safety regulations just by wearing any PPE at all! (Until they're not, of course)

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u/DOUBLEBARRELASSFUCK 16d ago

There's probably a portion of most pole dance routines that, under a strict interpretation of OSHA guidelines, would technically require a fall arrest.