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That stat about 90% of workplace safety incidents being 'human error' bothered me
I was reading an OSHA report last week and it said 9 out of 10 incidents come down to human error. But my crew runs into bad ladder setups, missing guardrails, no mats on wet floors all the time. So is it really the guy slipping or the boss who didn't fix the hazard? I feel like companies push that stat to dodge responsibility. On the other hand, guys do cut corners like wearing harnesses wrong or skipping PPE. Where do you draw the line between bad systems and bad choices?
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claire_hart5323d ago
Honestly half those "incidents" are just paperwork excuses.
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grace8923d ago
You ever wonder if they'd just scrap all that and actually listen to us for once? Feels like the paperwork is more about covering themselves than anything else.
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stellanelson23d ago
Take a look at the actual paperwork behind most of those so called "incidents" and you'll see it's just a pile of CYA forms. I swear half of them are written by managers who need to justify their own jobs. They turn a simple customer complaint about a cold coffee into a three page incident report with follow up emails. And then they make everyone sit through a mandatory training video based on that one report. It's all just busywork that wastes everyone's time and doesn't solve the real problem, which is usually just bad management in the first place.
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