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Do you know of what some of the safety hazards that have to be alleviated to meet all government regulations?

Many of them are stupid, and are used just as an excuse for employee's to bitch and get a few days off work until the so-called problem is fixed.

I'm not saying thats what he is doing. I don't think it is, I just asked what was up there. I am just curious if its cinderblocks of foamblocks.

The business I am a part of deals highly in the use of carbide alloys and tantung alloys. We have many machines to grind the substances, a few of them are a bit older and the state requires no ventilation on them for reasons unknown to me. Yet we have other machines that give off virtually no grinding dust that have requirements of dust catchers and ventillation. The laws are not upkept as they should be.

We do have ventilation on all of our equipment but thats not the point. Its stupid little things like this that the suits have no experience with that they try to regulate and they either do it far too much or far too little.

If there was a single person in the plant where I work that was on the commission to regulate safety in the workplace, I garrentee you at least most of Ohios grinding facilities would abide by the rules set forth, because they would have meaning to them, not ignorance of what is actually going on in the workplace.

You see, what apparently many of the regulations personell don't know or care about is carbide is a heavy substance much like lead. When you grind it, the grinding dust goes into your lungs. Well, tungsten/tangtung alloys you simple can cough it up if you don't have proper ventilation. The carbide you accumulate in your life will never leave your lungs. Its too heavy to be pushed out by coughing, sneezing, whatnot.

What a rant.

Anyway my point is, There are _many_ rules for safety that will never be followed. If you were in my position I think you would see things the same way. The money loss from downtime on machines is not worth fixing a safety hazard if the supposed hazard is something that will not harm someone.

Not only that but there are rules around workers comp. If someone is operating a machine in a fashion that they are not supposed to, their claim is rejected. Its not hard to prove that they were fucking off, since honestly thats about the only way to get hurt at a work enviroment who takes serious hazards seriously and brushes off stupid offenses.



Now honestly Water-Boy, if there were foam blocks up there that weigh 1lb each, and one of your employee's was complaining about it would you drop what your doing to get that fixed? Your going to lose money from possibly shutting down that area of the plant, paying someone to do it, when they should be being paid to do their normal job.

I do believe that this guy is in danger by whatever is up on the top shelf by what he said. Also if it was in my plant I your damn tootin` it would have been fixed long before the first accident occured, but its too easy for employee's to use the system against their employers just for drama or a few days off.

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