Posted By ARUN Dear jesu Love your job ,don't love your company. Harassement's are bound to happen,but you must stick to the noble cause of accident prevention. Regards, Arun Joshi Nebosh igc DY.Mgr(Safety) Kota INDIA

Posted By FAH Jesu - this is an incredibly important issue in any workplace & it's very perceptive of you to raise it.. Basically, what you describe is a regretably common situation that is only ever created or allowed to flourish by the incompetent manager/employer - there are just too many of them! It's also a major underlying cause of a very large number of accidents & ill-health - many of which fail to have the true underlying causes recognised. There are two different worlds to be considered here, the "theoretical ideal" & the "real". It's very easy to say to someone "Stand up & change things"; but in any industry where the pool of available labour is substantially larger than the possible number of jobs it is very easy for the workforce to be convinced that there's always another person to fill that job; so they understandably say & do nothing to draw attention to themselves. If the person just keeps their head down, stays quiet & doesn't do anything it's almost inevitable that they, or someone else will be injured eventually. If they stand up and identify the problem, they generally feel that they won't be working there any more. Everyone in that position will make a very personal value judgement based upon their circumstances. There is no definitive or effective way in which the victims of such a system can be helped without active intervention of those who are supposed to police the employers. Frank Hallett