This is the way I see it guys, honestly its everyone for them selfs, look out and know whats going on and whats being used for materials, if its something new learn about it and where else it was used, and you can't be afraid to do what you feel is right, even if its found out to be wrong... easier said than done tho...
This is what I think happens a lot out there.... ands its pretty ugly the way I believe goes on...
I strongly believe all the guys and bosses setting up job sites with materials, and the guys keeping things going, and the people who are operating these cranes are very much intimidated in situations where you have the white collar board of investors that are building the projects out there, they have large amounts of their money invested in the job and every penny is accounted for and has to be allocated for each phase of the job at set dates, and when jobs go past the set date dead line is when these investors pay out big interest for money they don't have ready to use... they have to borrow for each day that goes over.
Make no mistake all the job foreman's know if they can't meet dead lines to look for work some wheres else, because they won't have a job if too many dead lines are missed, or if they have a history of missing dead lines.....
So with that said safety is over looked all the time and I feel its known by just about everybody on the job who is aware of how things work out there, just like the crane that fell not long ago because of wind, and that crane required the okay to proceed by three men operating that particular crane, so what does that tell you? do you think they felt comfortable in saying lets stay shut down another day because I think they were having a string of bad wether?
So if your a job site foreman and at the age where nobody else will hire you, and that job position is next to impossible to find out in the job market, and you have 2 kids your putting thru collage.... of course there is no such thing as safety when its not your ass up in the seat when the area of danger is to be....
I'm sorry for saying things like this but greed and stupidity gets me upset because there is no need for it, and this is mainly the reason why bad accidents will keep happening... another stupid move here in NYC was when for some unknown reason the anchor bolts called for were changed out 3/4 of the way thru the job for another type that failed in time, so the concrete fell into the roadway killing people driving thru... the list is so long that has to do with stupid decisions and greed....
Listen to this, in my town of Bridgeport they were jacking up poured concrete floors, they must have been on the 8th floor or what ever it was, so the rain from the night before washed out the dirt under the support columns and the top few floors fell and toppled down the rest of the floors that were up and sandwiched 23 workers all on various levels.... and another stupid accident back a good while ago I'll never forget because my brother-in-law could have been in it was when a whole 16 story wall of scaffolding was not anchored to the wall the right way and it fell over killing many masons....
I may sound like a pain in the butt on certain jobs, but I trust no body and it never hurts to double check safety....
