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I was having an late afternoon walk after a very stressful day today when I came upon a hose pipe stretched across the pavement.
A young lad mid twenties popped his head around the back of his window cleaning van and said please be careful I have not put my boards across the pipe yet.
I noticed he was probably a one man band trying to make a living due to the name and numbers on the van.
I thought how polite and safety aware to warn me. He had a telescopic brush attachment in his hand so I said no ladders either then mate. Straight back with 1. less manual handling 2. Nothing to fall off.
I thought we bang on about every legislation and regulation in the world on this site, here was a direct practical common sense approach to staying safe and more so staying alive.
It truthfully made my day.
Ta Alex
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Alex
These kind of things do make the job worth while.
Im quickly realizing that within the QHSE role i am in your not really noticed unless something goes wrong and someone is looking for someone to blame.
I have seen incidents on the site where I work when I have thought thats a good idea but have never been of the mind set to congratulate etc the person responsible for instigating safe working practices.
Any way alex have a better day today mate
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i think we should make a fuss of people that do a good job, instead of criticising for the bad side.
When I report on my site inspections I do always highlight the required improvements but also praise where it is warranted.
My most recent, yesterday I mentioned an excellent induction talk given to me by the site foreman, also a good clean site and well managed.
When the foreman saw that his eyes lit up.
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I can see the headlines in the Daily Mail now!! Oh, sorry, no I can't actually.
Things like this should be applauded as much as possible.
I totally agree with Chris. All too often we are seen as the bad guys, but highlighting the positive, IMO, is far more effective that continuous negativity. Yes, point out the failings, we have to do that, but positive encouragement I have found to be an effective tool.
Andy
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I often praise people who identify problems and solve them themselves, without making a song and dance about it. I look at the solutions they have come up with and as they are often very good steal them and apply them cross the whole organisation. Yes it makes my day- then someone puts in a bid to rent out a spare meeting room and we get the stuff about not being registered for CHAS see current thread about this. Back to earth then!
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I have a Good Practice Section in my 1/4 H&S report. In this I highlight a specific incident/s (without confidential details) of where the action has been or shows our commitment to our work or even above what we are contracted for. As we are in support work most of our incidents tend to be unavoidable but our action can sometimes help the re-occurrence or at least reduce this.
I always ask the local manager first and they then relay this to their team and then all the teams see the report.
Lilian
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Alex,
I on the other hand spent the day dragging 'crowd barriers' around to an exposed one metre deep chamber and also condemning two sets of scaffolding erection. Poor practice at its best and both related to falls!
As for the window guy, good for him! However, without being too harsh it maybe worth him revising his approach slightly, to protect the pipe 'prior' to you stumbling across it - thus necessitating a shout!
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