Workers must manage their own safety

He also pointed out that it is for the employers to ensure that the workplace is safe and employees are to be provided with the necessary safety equipment that is required for the jobs at hand, at the expense of the employer. Also the employer will be fined if he fails to do so.

There are some supposedly intelligent people out there, who seem to believe that when this famous ‘OSHA’ Act has been legally put into place it would automatically prevent industrial accidents from happening. Please wake up and smell the coffee.

The only thing that would greatly minimise industrial accidents, is constant pounding into the heads of employees that are exposed to these hazardous areas, that they wear and use the equipment provided on a daily basis.

They must be maintenance conscious, from spilled oil on the work floor or any other object that doesn’t belong there, a noise emanating from operating equipment in your respective workplace, that wasn’t heard the day before or when it was first put into operation. All the fines and the firing of people are not going to bring back the loss of limbs or the loss of life. As far as holding people accountable, we are all accountable, especially the unions that represent these workers. While you are brainwashing them on how to get their employers, teach them how to manage their own safety and the safety of others.

Let’s get back to basic preventive maintenance, housekeeping and discipline in the workplace.