Work

[hemibee]

I haven't been able to get on line very often here for the past 2 months or go for a ride. We're in our outage season at work and I've been a bit busy. I have managed to steal away a few minutes to do a little reading and have pared down the number of unread posts to 300 but I'm sure that won't last long.

The fall outage season ended Friday and now I have a slower work schedule until the spring outages start in March as we get ready for the summer run. Man oh man, I'm sure looking forward to my retirement.

 

[Rocky]

WORK is a four letter word and I don't use that kind of language
Wow that's a lot of posts to sift through, but better days ahead.
I highly recommend retirement

 

[shanered6]

Im flat out my self Hemi on the firewood deliveries for christmas but i am just about managing to keep up with new threafds .
This work lark just gets in the way of everything and ive still got 19 years to go and thats if i retire at 67 , i might have to go till i drop

 

[hemibee]

My plan is to retire at 61, which is just over 3.33 years away. The house we own was purchased to finance our retirement home. I want to build our retirement home so I can get the house I (we) want instead of settling for someone else's house. If we move out of the county we live in, our taxes and insurance rates drop plus downsizing will save more money. With the savings I can make more bike trips.

 

[triumph david]

Bad news Hemi, when you retire you will be to busy to build anything, the reason people retire is because they don't have time to work.

 

[SarahP]

Hemi, it's been a busy season for all. That's why I'm just now getting to your post, LOL

Just wanted to say that when I first read it, I thought you had written We're in our outrage season at work,

I immediately thought Oh my gosh, I hope he's not too mad!

 

[shanered6]

 

[hemibee]

Outrage might be a better description of what I face when dealing with multiple contractor crews. Others at work only deal with a few contractors, I have to deal with each one of them. It makes it even worse when contractor administrators ( our employees) don't know our Lock Out, Tag Out system and I have to deal with them too. Sometimes I just want to

 

[SarahP]

utrage might be a better description of what I face when dealing with multiple contractor crews. Others at work only deal with a few contractors, I have to deal with each one of them. It makes it even worse when contractor administrators ( our employees) don't know our Lock Out, Tag Out system and I have to deal with them too. Sometimes I just want to

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Hemi, my sister is a safety expert with education, quals and job experience out the yin-yang. The stories she's told me about worksite safety issues is hair-raising, especially the lockout-tagout violations. Horrifying. I don't envy you!

 

[hemibee]

I used to be the plant, Safety Team leader before I was promoted from a union position to supervisor. It was during my tenure as the team leader that the current LOTO procedure was rolled out. I was charged with training all plant personnel in the new procedures. At that time they all KNEW the procedure. After I was transferred out of the plant to Fossil Headquarters they started shortcutting the procedure. Now that I've been transferred back to the plant into my old supervisor position I've found all kinds of procedure errors from the ones I trained and the others that have either transferred from another plant have some really screwed up ideas of how it's supposed to work. I approached the plant manager with what I was seeing and told him I was fixin' to ruffle a few feathers. His comment was "No, ruffle all the feathers." Let's just say, I've got a few that have their feathers in knots and they are now reviewing the procedure BEFORE they come to me to have equipment secured for them. Now if I can get the rest of them doing the same.

 

[Greyfell]

LOTO procedures can be frustrating, but when you're dealing with stuff that can kill someone, if you don't do it, you start to see the value in it.

 

[keystiger]

Retirement?????

Not a prayer---- but at least I know where I stand------till I fall.

 

[hemibee]

LOTO procedures can be frustrating, but when you're dealing with stuff that can kill someone, if you don't do it, you start to see the value in it.

There's not a lot of things at work that they have to worry about. Well other than 1005 DegF steam at 2400 PSIG , boiling water, caustic soda, hydrochloric acid, chlorine, DC voltages of 24V and 125V, AC voltages from 120V, 480V, 4160V, 22000V or 142000V, 100 PSIG natural gas, Anhydrous Ammonia, Brine, phosphate, ammonia, confined spaces, asbestos, snakes, Brown Recluse & Black Widow spiders, bees, coyotes, coons, occasional alligators, skunks, pumps that auto start, compressed air/gasses, vacuums, cooling water that flows at 175,000 GPM, freon, ambient temperature ranges from ~20 DegF to ~140 DegF just to name a few.

 

[Rocky]

Sounds like a normal day at the office

 

[Qship]

When you have to deal with all those hazards, safety should be paramount in everyone's mind on the job. Otherwise only a matter of time before someone gets a ride in the coroner's van.

 

[Greyfell]

When you have to deal with all those hazards, safety should be paramount in everyone's mind on the job. Otherwise only a matter of time before someone gets a ride in the coroner's van.

SHOULD is the key word. Human nature being what it is, many folks will think something like "I'm doing a 5-10 minute job, but it's going to take 30 minutes to do the lockout/tagout. What can go wrong in 5 minutes? And I'm going to be right here watching over things." Before he knows it, the company is looking for a new technician.

 

[hemibee]

We did do a 21 year stretch with over a million man-hours without a lost time or medical injury. There was only a handful of first-aid cases in that time period with several years of no injuries. We won multiple years of the company's Presidential Safety Award which was not easy to do with the smallest workforce in our system. One first-aid case could ruin it for us when our numbers for a 42 employee site when we were compared to a plant with over 400 employees. They could get a lower injury rate with a medical case and we only had a first-aid case. In order for us to win the title of the safest plant in the system we had to have a perfect safety record.

 

[Qship]

THAT'S a pretty darned impressive safety record!