So my girlfriend has been telling me about an ongoing situation at her work, and I was curious to get some crowdsourced opinions.
She's been on a job site the past few months where her company are the engineers supervising a large team of drillers. The project's start date kept getting delayed, etc, until it started pretty much at the start of when it gets cold. Now it's freezing all of the time, but because the project got delayed so much, they want to keep working even when it's snowing/freezing. The workers are 100% men except for her, and when one of them expressed displeasure at using heavy machinery in the freezing cold, he was made fun of.
So this is pretty much completely against all sorts of safety regulations (and when she first started at this site, the entire first week was literally just going over safety regulations with a consultant who was brought in for that purpose). Additionally, because it's so rushed, her main boss has been making several "assumptions" - i.e. assuming something is 2 feet deep in one area because it was of similar depth in another area. Again, completely against regulations. But no one wants to spend the time (both for budget on the company's side and not wanting to be freezing for longer on the drillers') to get more accurate measurements in places they don't have info on.
Previously, when she'd mention these things, I kind of told her that it's probably pretty normal and if the experienced engineer and drillers are comfortable with it, they've probably done it before. The extra safety regulations are just for liability etc, and if people who have done it before think it's okay, it probably is.
Well last week, things kind of 'hit the fan'. One of the head engineer's "assumptions" turned out to be wrong, and a driller hit a utility line. There are two utility lines right next to each other there, a high voltage and low voltage one. He hit the low voltage one and messed up his equipment - but he would have likely died if he hit the high voltage one.
There was a big hullabaloo, and people were angry, but then yesterday (they actually did get days off for an actual potential blizzard at least, which is nice), they are right back to work using similar "get it done as fast as possible" methodology, with the one change of now they are finding the depth of utility lines (but still not doing any other safety things, just the specific one that almost killed someone).
What do you think of this general situation?
This seems like a nice mix of corporate America's dumb working hours/deadlines for no reason, with actual physical safety consequences - along with some 'Men be crazy' illogical machismo.
She's been on a job site the past few months where her company are the engineers supervising a large team of drillers. The project's start date kept getting delayed, etc, until it started pretty much at the start of when it gets cold. Now it's freezing all of the time, but because the project got delayed so much, they want to keep working even when it's snowing/freezing. The workers are 100% men except for her, and when one of them expressed displeasure at using heavy machinery in the freezing cold, he was made fun of.
So this is pretty much completely against all sorts of safety regulations (and when she first started at this site, the entire first week was literally just going over safety regulations with a consultant who was brought in for that purpose). Additionally, because it's so rushed, her main boss has been making several "assumptions" - i.e. assuming something is 2 feet deep in one area because it was of similar depth in another area. Again, completely against regulations. But no one wants to spend the time (both for budget on the company's side and not wanting to be freezing for longer on the drillers') to get more accurate measurements in places they don't have info on.
Previously, when she'd mention these things, I kind of told her that it's probably pretty normal and if the experienced engineer and drillers are comfortable with it, they've probably done it before. The extra safety regulations are just for liability etc, and if people who have done it before think it's okay, it probably is.
Well last week, things kind of 'hit the fan'. One of the head engineer's "assumptions" turned out to be wrong, and a driller hit a utility line. There are two utility lines right next to each other there, a high voltage and low voltage one. He hit the low voltage one and messed up his equipment - but he would have likely died if he hit the high voltage one.
There was a big hullabaloo, and people were angry, but then yesterday (they actually did get days off for an actual potential blizzard at least, which is nice), they are right back to work using similar "get it done as fast as possible" methodology, with the one change of now they are finding the depth of utility lines (but still not doing any other safety things, just the specific one that almost killed someone).
What do you think of this general situation?
This seems like a nice mix of corporate America's dumb working hours/deadlines for no reason, with actual physical safety consequences - along with some 'Men be crazy' illogical machismo.
Interesting/Scary Situation at my Girlfriend's Work
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