[00:00:00] :  this is this show is brought to you by Safety FM. Mhm. The following program is rated for mature audiences and may contain adult language, adult situations and frank safety discussions. The names in certain details have been changed to protect the safe and the unsafe. This morning I was going through LinkedIn and a story that came across my feet about a young teen falling off a roof to an insult injury. His coworkers then allegedly put on fall protection equipment before Oh, she showed up and continued to work. The comments range from Isn't this tragic to OSHA? Can't be everywhere to catch everything. Well, let's talk about this. OSHA can't be there. Well, it's not oceans job to be there and hold your hand. It's a company's job, and more importantly, it's the supervisor's job, let alone Why would a minor be doing construction work in this state? That has happened. It's illegal for this reminder to be doing this. Blaming an underfunded agency who was not there is like blaming the worker rather than the owner who was there. His co workers, who were there also, and everybody else was okay with these working conditions. Hopefully we can get to the bottom of this story and the person will make a complete recovery. My question is, what were the incentives at this company? And what kind of corporate culture is there that will allow this? I've worked with many companies that have had this type of corporate culture, some of those, even with credential safety people deliberately not saying anything about fall hazards, chemical hazards, exclamation hazards. You know, all the stuff that will probably get you killed because of corporate peer pressure and everything else that goes along with it. Just get the job done, move on to the next job, regardless of what your losses are. Because, of course, those losses come from a different line in the budget. It turns out, when some of the situations I've been in the owners don't actually know about these situations. A lot of them are just investors. Or maybe they started the company to do one thing, and now all of a sudden they're doing something totally different. Truth be told, it takes a lot of time and effort to write a ship after a major accident, even one that has a fatality. I know the job in metro New York, where someone fell from a bridge and died when we're finally resumed four days later. This is after fall protection, training and everything else that goes along with it. 40% of the work crew was fired and subcontractors removed from the job because they still refused to wear fall protection. They said it wasn't in the bid for the job to actually work safely. That's not a unique situation. It will never happen to us. Or it was. His time was the response that we all received from especially the workers we all forget. At the bottom of the safety triangle or pyramid is attitudes and values. You know, the things that no one wants to talk about. Are you hiring people? Whether you own a company or even if you're hiring people for a job in your home, do they actually work safely? Do you want to own that hand surfaces where someone fell to their death because of some fall protection hazard or another hazard that could be easily remedied and fixed with a little bit of time and effort? What kind of job are they going to do for you? Especially if they can't follow simple safety guidelines, the corporate culture is to forget about safety and everything else. Do you really think they're going to do all the other work on your house or at your place of business correctly? If they skimp on safety, they'll skimp on everything else. Believe me, that will happen. More importantly, do you want to be the person who has to make the notifications to the family, the friends and other coworkers about a worker's death? Do you want to start to answer and ask difficult questions of people like, Why did this have to happen? The fight against attitudes and promoting positive values is the safety war that we are all fighting for. Safety wars. This is Jim proposal. This was a production of JCP Technical Services was generated with publicly available open source information and thus JCP Technical Services assumes no liability makes no warranties or guarantees on the information contained in the broadcast. All rights reserved. No portion of this broadcast may be reproduced. Restored an electronic device for that permission of Jim Puzzle, JCP technical services or any clients there of that are mentioned in the broadcast. Copyright 2021 James. Views and opinions expressed on this podcast are those of the host in its guests and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the company. Examples of analysis discussed within this podcast are only examples. 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