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Originally Posted by glatt
But I suppose you are right. Management should identify the slacker lookout and punish him/her and make sure everyone else is doing their job.
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If that rear observer is not there, the driver should stop. IOW at least two people were violating the rules. But then read the comments from third parties. For example, the wife notes employees were not even provided working safety straps. Employees are ordered to sign off on safety training that was never provided. And threatened by management if they do not sign to a lie.
These are not accidents. Employee actions are directly traceable to 'attitude and knowledge' which only management defines. That is a management primary responsibility as even defined by William Edward Deming. To provide the attitude and knowledge. Even Federal inspectors noted how employees would speed up when safety runs demand they slow to 10 MPH - because even inspector lives were threatened by employee safety violations.
One employee may be a personnel problem. Routine violations - that is only blatant management failure.
Six deaths on 22 Jun before this got any attention? Washington area residents should be screaming for the heads of all senior Metro management. Instead, mostly silence. And a post that blames an employee for doing what is apparently routine.
Meanwhile, that truck must also have a beeper when backing up. No beeper apparently meant two workers never knew the truck was coming. Even the workers could not protect themselves. A construction truck without that backup beeper should never even leave the shop - if management is doing its job.