Phazetic99

Your attitude towards safety and the worker is not shared by safety officers I have worked with in the past. It feels that they try to make every area of work into a place where a 5 year old kid can't get hurt. I've seen playground equipment built in the last 5 years that allow kids to be in more precarious positions then we were allowed to be on a job building a factory

Its not really bubble wrapping but rather it is adhering to a set of rules and systems that are premade before they get on a job site, and not allowing the workers to present the problem. When they are shown the problem, their solution is more troublesome then it needs to be.

Allow me to present an example that happened years ago on a commercial renovation project on a strip mall in Calgary AB. I was erecting scaffold on the outside of the building. The safety wanted 100% tie off while scaffold is being erected or brought down. They wanted us to use safety rope, and rope grab with our fall arrest system. They wanted us to tie our safety rope to a solid object on the roof.

The problem was that we were working on scaffold systems that were about 100 feet long, which meant that we were creating a swing path with our safety rope. This meant that when we were on certain areas of our scaffold, if we did fall, the swing path would ensure that we would fall to the ground, as if as a pendulum.

It did not matter to the the site safety, so long as we wore our safety harness and were attached to the rope. They could not move out of that idea even though I presented a problem to it. It actually made the site management angry at me and everybody was frustrated at each other.

Since I have your attention, I have fun question we have been throwing around the crew. I recently watched a youtube video of some guy walking around on a bucket. I taught myself how to do it, it is rather fun. But we got in a debate if we were allowed to use a bucket as a way to reach to the ceiling of an 8 foot high room. Are there steadfast rules outside of company and job site rules that prohibit using items such as buckets as a way to reach up?

Here is an example:

https://youtu.be/EKUBZ7bzZDU