Seeking Insights from Industry Experts
Hey, Safety Knights community!
I'm looking to chat with safety consultants from all corners of the industry. Whether you’re tackling safety in tech, construction, healthcare, or anywhere else, I’m curious about how you manage your day-to-day safety challenges.
If you’ve got insights or challenges you’re navigating, I’d love to hear from you.
Mdykes@salutesafety.com
Comments (3)
The biggest challenges I see in the Steel Erection, Rebar, and Industrial world are:
1. The older generation of workers embracing technology, i-phones and the apps the company uses.
Even with training and show one, do one together, and do one on your own method.
2. The experienced workers sharing to new employees the work arounds, and not what is taught or in our JHA's. The experienced today make up less than half the workforce, but impact or influence behaviors.
Safety Eric.
email sent!
But after looking at Eric's email.
#1 I am 70. I have an Iphone, we have an Ipad, and Iwatches. I entered the working world (and college ) in 1972! I have seen one heck of a lot of change! I learned to calculate sigma by hand and use a slide rule! I had to learn Fortran to talk to a computer, and almost took COBAL. I remember sitting down in front of a mechanical power press the day after high school graduation and seeing all my co-workers with missing fingers!!! OSHA was brand new and few had even heard about it! There were no PCs, only saw a cell phone on Star Trek, and no microwaves! Color TV was less than 10 years old! Most of the cars I drove were sticks! Of course that was not a big problem I grew up on a tractor! Yet we had landed on the Moon!
Yeah I know change
#2 In manufacturing change is happening faster and faster! OSHA does not keep up! Best example is in Machine Guarding! As an example 1910.217 is a joke! It does not talk about the current state of guarding and technology in 2024! And it goes on and on! Now AI!!!