Safety Talk

Shortcuts can cause long-term injuries. Here's a story of one worker who couldn't be bothered to lock out. Jim enjoyed startup assignments because he was independent by nature, and the nature of the work let him do it his way most of the time. Jim was not fond of the rules the company made him follow and felt that some of the imposed job standards just “got in the way” and slowed him down. Jim knew the company's lockout/tagout procedure and paperwork would take him at least 20 minutes, so he did what he always did when nobody was looking: […]