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On my current site, we're arguing over daily safety meetings.
Honestly, I think they're key for reminding crews, but my foreman says they're just a box-ticking exercise. What do you all think?
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daniel_lee992mo ago
Paperwork does the same thing. We filled out a perfect log for a guardrail that was clearly broken. Boss loved the paper, didn't fix the rail.
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gibson.mila1mo ago
Ugh, this hits home. I'm so good at filling out forms that my hazard reports look like art, but nobody ever acts on them. Last week, I logged a slippery floor with so much detail it could be a story, but the warning sign is still in the closet. @the_pat nailed it, when safety talks are just routine, we all tune out. How do we get management to focus on fixes instead of paperwork?
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the_pat2mo ago
What if these meetings are mostly for show? Your foreman might be right that they just tick a box to make bosses happy. Take daniel_lee99's guardrail log, it looked good but changed nothing. When talks become routine, people stop listening. Maybe we spend too much time talking safe and not enough doing it.
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