I agree, but safety needs a common sense element too, which sometimes can be
missing when the rules are arbitrarily applied.
I worked at a gas plant in Alberta and it was required that before you left the
office or your truck you had to be wearing fire proof coveralls, hard hat,
safety glasses, gloves, and steel toe boots. All good if you're at a well and
taking readings, but we had summer students who were raking gravel at a
reclamation site after the well has been abandoned; so were in the middle of a
farmers field with no gas facilities for miles. However they were still
required to wear everything, so on a 32 degree day they were passing out from
heat stroke. Lots of incident reports to fill out, and the HSE people in head
office were not impressed that the cause of the injury was the PPE!
Craig
--- In cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Don Thomas" <thomasd@...> wrote:
I work in a safety department. Safety is not getting to the point of
ridiculousness, unless you consider reducing or eliminating workplace
injuries and deaths to be ridiculous. An injured worker or someone's next of
kin wouldn't agree with you.
Don Thomas
