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Just going to submit that when clients want my OSHA incident rate
The thing that bugs me about such programs is it incentivizes employees to not report injuries and claim they're non work related after the fact, with the same medical care level.?ÿ It skews the actuarial data OSHA is trying to collect.
I worked for a year at a propeller repair shop in Seattle and injuries were common given the nature of the work.?ÿ Every year or so OSHA would inspect the facility because we worked on commercial and military props.?ÿ We'd get several days notice (?) before OSHA showed up and so we'd reinstall machinery guards, wear protective bulky clothing, clean up the welding stations, face shields, steel toes shoes, the whole shebang for the day OSHA showed up.?ÿ The fact was all that safety stuff made it nearly impossible to do a good quick job and being smart was more important.
Don't get me wrong, OSHA is a worthy gov'mnt entity but I quit after several injuries and after witnessing senior employees who had old severe injuries, eye damage, welding burns, bader sander abrasions and even lost fingers I gave up.?ÿ The pay was great but the risk was too high.
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I recall my first brother in law telling me about the place where his uncle worked near Boston.?ÿ You could tell someone who had been on the job at least a month or two because they were already missing part of at least one finger.?ÿ Some smartie came along later and instituted the two hand switches before the machine activated.