Just found out this morning that yet another of our clients has come out with a 100% FRC requirement regardless of where you are or what you're doing. What has happened to common sense?? I'm a lot more worried about heat exhaustion wearing FRC in Louisiana in the summer than I am about whatever it's supposedly protecting me from in a ROW.
It's getting to the point where the crews have to spend half of their time on site cooling down and hydrating.
Lee D, post: 410479, member: 7971 wrote: Just found out this morning that yet another of our clients has come out with a 100% FRC requirement regardless of where you are or what you're doing.
Do you really want them as a client?
There are a number of organisations like that we no longer do work for - its just not worth the hassle
It's the nature of working in oil & gas... yes, we definitely still want them as a client. Unfortunately these safety rules just keep getting crazier though.
On the bright side, we're at something like 2.6 million man hours without an OSHA recordable. I appreciate safety and enjoy working for a company that takes it seriously. I just think that wearing FRC to cut line for a proposed ROW is a little over the top.
FRC in the south is pure torture.
Reminds me of a project I did in Montana several years ago. I was doing shoreline assessments from a pipeline spill on the Yellowstone River. It was in July so the air temp was in the 90s, but the water temp was in the 40s. The genius safety guy had us wear full body mustang suits in the boat in case we fell overboard. The river was raging at flood stage. That was fine for the trip to the survey location. But after we had been hacking our way through thick brush for several hours, putting that suit back on for the ride back was not a good idea. All of us almost passed out from heat exhaustion. After I met with the safety guy when I got back that day, no more mustang suits...
Lee D, post: 410479, member: 7971 wrote: What has happened to common sense??
Good question. How about having to wear a hard hat on the taxiway of an international airport? If something was to fall out of the sky, I think a hard hat would be very little protection. Somehow it seems that safety programs are more about reducing liability than actually protecting the worker.
lmbrls, post: 410629, member: 6823 wrote: Somehow it seems that safety programs are more about reducing liability than actually protecting the worker.
True, so very very true...
Once upon a time (like all good fairy tales start out) we had a client who had a safety program in place that put ATV's on the absolutely forbidden list. Our job was at the most remote portion of their several thousand acre tract and over a half mile from where any employee would ever be working. I had a nice chat with the two adjoining property owners. Most of what we were doing was defining those common boundary lines so they both agreed to let us do anything we needed from their side. We had based our contractual amount for the job on doing a tremendous amount of walking and packing everything in and out for substantial distances. By working from the neighbor's side we were done in about one-fifth the effort. I didn't feel the least bit guilty for charging the full amount. Stupid people need to suffer for their own stupidity sometimes.
