On Apr 7, 12:40*pm, hk wrote:
On 4/7/10 12:18 PM, wrote:

On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:40:56 -0400,
wrote:

W.Va. mine owner accused of putting safety second

As someone who was the safety officer at a big US corporation, the
biggest problem is making the employees actually follow the safety
procedures. My wife had a similar problem in the construction
industry.

I've probably been on a thousand commercial and heavy construction sites
since the 1970s...and the safest sites are always the ones on which
labor and management play an equal role in patrolling and watching, and
in educating the workers about avoiding injury or worse. I was on a site
in St. Pete some years ago and watched as the company rep consulted with
the steward for a minute and then they both went over to a worker and
sent him home for the day without pay. He had been warned about the need
to wear steel-toed construction shoes and he kept showing up without
them. Minor incident, but telling.

Dangerous work can be made safer if management, especially, takes worker
safety seriously. That was not the case with the coal mine under
discussion.

Do you think anybody here besides Don believes anything you say? So,
do tell, since I'm in the industry, just what heavy industrial sites
have you been affiliated with?