People act like OSHA is this gang of fun-haters who make up stupid rules to make their jobs annoying. Literally every single regulation OSHA has ever written was in response to someone getting maimed; usually killed, but sometimes merely losing a limb or two. Occasionally breathing corrosive gas.
It's the Don't Make Us Make A Rule About You Administration. It's unbelievable what people will do or be made to do without reasonable guidelines in place.
Can't blame this one on Generational ANYTHING. The opposition to OSHA has always come from two places: the the foremen who preferred expending workers rather than purchasing ladders and PPE, and the uneducated who were taught that the regulators are somehow harmful to the common worker.
i agree mostly but id put the blame more on managers than on foremen, who, at least where i’ve worked, act as a diplomat between workers and management more than acting as budget hawks
The second best safety talks are those given by foremen who've had someone on their team die or be badly injured.
The best are given by guys in wheelchairs.
I would have used that classic turn of phrase, but I was short on characters and wanted to emphasize exactly what it meant. There's that tough guy attitude that "some pussy stubbed their toe and now I gotta buy expensive boots." No, somebody got their toe sliced off and the machine didn't notice.
This post has @funranium.bsky.social vibes. The safety people are great fun to talk to because they have endless horror stories. And hopefully you'll come away a little bit less likely to kill yourself.
Reminds me of when Mythbusters tested some steel toe boots myths. Somehow those would be worse than regular boots and amputate your toes when a heavy weight falls onto the steel toe boots.
Such a very busted myth~
