We all know of the various blind spots on equipment, and in the public outside of a construction site extra safety measures need to be met to eliminate risk. However on a construction site when is the operator responsible for someones death and when is it the responsibility Of the people on the ground to stay out of the way.
I’m going to use large excavators as an example because it’s where the most issues have occurred in our work.
Are you expected to check your counterweight for people passing by every swing?
We had a guy walk tight to a 350 cat to check grade only thing that saved him was he forgot his spray paint.
We have also had it happen to another Excavation company where a new guy walked between a manhole and the excavator and he was no more.
As engineers have to keep making sites tighter and tighter and new workers enter the workforce I have a hard time seeing when it is ever the operators fault if he’s doing his regular checks and has a spotter.
Roofers walking behind backhoes, labourers walking into a tri axles, soil engineers stoping to tie there shoe sitting in a pile of fill. Electricians assuming they have right of way and driving in front of a full speed wheel loader. Like I got a bit of first aid but I’m not gonna be able to fix this stuff guys haha.
Everytime I’ve asked the question to people in charge of companies or sites the response is always “if they are too dumb to stay alive then there’s nothing that you can do”.
Whenever I’m in equipment I just assume everything is my fault so I am slower then most guys.
I’m going to use large excavators as an example because it’s where the most issues have occurred in our work.
Are you expected to check your counterweight for people passing by every swing?
We had a guy walk tight to a 350 cat to check grade only thing that saved him was he forgot his spray paint.
We have also had it happen to another Excavation company where a new guy walked between a manhole and the excavator and he was no more.
As engineers have to keep making sites tighter and tighter and new workers enter the workforce I have a hard time seeing when it is ever the operators fault if he’s doing his regular checks and has a spotter.
Roofers walking behind backhoes, labourers walking into a tri axles, soil engineers stoping to tie there shoe sitting in a pile of fill. Electricians assuming they have right of way and driving in front of a full speed wheel loader. Like I got a bit of first aid but I’m not gonna be able to fix this stuff guys haha.
Everytime I’ve asked the question to people in charge of companies or sites the response is always “if they are too dumb to stay alive then there’s nothing that you can do”.
Whenever I’m in equipment I just assume everything is my fault so I am slower then most guys.