Aren’t those done to figure out how things happened so they could minimize the risk of it happening again? Someone made a mistake but what led to the mistake and what could be changed so that either this doesn’t happen or when it does, it’s not as bad.
That’s what workplace investigations are supposed to be, yes. My workplace unfortunately seems more preoccupied with assigning blame to operators and writing increasingly complex rule changes that wouldn’t be necessary if they spent, let me see, literally more than $0 on upgrading our tech…
Where I live at least some of the bigger construction companies do talk about safety a lot and can be fairly strict about it. It’s good PR and saves money by having your workers healthy and working and there doesn’t need to be work stoppages due to accidents.
Yeah I miss when not every company was just “qUaRteRlY iNcReAsEs OvEr aLL eLsE” and it wasn’t rare for a business to care about safety, quality, the law, etc.
the company I work at has vestiges of safety programs but repeatedly denies my requests for very simple safety controls from not blocking the fire alarm and exits with inventory, to an oxygen monitor in a room full of compressed gas tanks (some of which are hydrogen. fun!)
“humans make mistakes”
so many goddamn iNvEsTiGaTiOnS I have to write for work boil down to this
if you’re too cheap to engineer out the possibility of human error, don’t come crying to me, a human, about it
Aren’t those done to figure out how things happened so they could minimize the risk of it happening again? Someone made a mistake but what led to the mistake and what could be changed so that either this doesn’t happen or when it does, it’s not as bad.
That’s what workplace investigations are supposed to be, yes. My workplace unfortunately seems more preoccupied with assigning blame to operators and writing increasingly complex rule changes that wouldn’t be necessary if they spent, let me see, literally more than $0 on upgrading our tech…
Very shortsighted of the company to do that.
Yup. Just like every other place I’ve ever worked. Can’t see past quarterly profit increases until everything inevitably crashes and burns
Where I live at least some of the bigger construction companies do talk about safety a lot and can be fairly strict about it. It’s good PR and saves money by having your workers healthy and working and there doesn’t need to be work stoppages due to accidents.
Yeah I miss when not every company was just “qUaRteRlY iNcReAsEs OvEr aLL eLsE” and it wasn’t rare for a business to care about safety, quality, the law, etc.
the company I work at has vestiges of safety programs but repeatedly denies my requests for very simple safety controls from not blocking the fire alarm and exits with inventory, to an oxygen monitor in a room full of compressed gas tanks (some of which are hydrogen. fun!)
yeah i gotta get the fuck outta here.