The Big Diverse Company Safety Meeting
Our company is very wide open. We have a lot of field staff, well, mostly field staff in fact. Then there are those of us who never leave the office (well except to maybe go home at night if we're lucky). Now we tend to have these safety meetings in our Office maybe once a month. Our company takes Safety and all very seriously which is good.
The problem I see now, is that the majority of the people who attend these meetings are the people who in fact, rarely leave the office. Today, we talked all about Fatigue Management. How guys can work too long on a job site, and the amount of days on and off and all that. Well basically, our Safety Officer stood there talking to a bunch of 8 to 5 folks about working days longer than 12 or 16 hours and all this... I mean really. Wrong crowd.
So here is a room full of office workers, passing out with Fatigue, talking about Fatigue Management on Jobs... Joy. Really, it was quite entertaining. Gimme a break.
Then there is the bit about hidden dangers around the office... Watch OUT!
The photocopier bites sometimes!!!
There is no window in the door, so you could open it into somebody coming through the other way
The sidewalk may be a bit icy, so be careful. Avoid those slips, trips and falls.. I mean really. It's winter, and I think any human that deserves to be breathing that lives around here would know to be careful.
Lastly, I think that the phone could very possibly give you a shock if you are cutting the wires with a pair of scissors while talking on it. I think this could happen to a few folks... maybe.
I guess at the end of the day, I am happy that my company takes a serious approach to safety. I would likely not work for a company that did not. That being said, some organisation in order to get the message to the RIGHT people may be in order...
Back to regular programming now please!
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