Online Safety Contest for Construction Workers in Canada

I have never been a believer in safety contests or safety reward programs, but they seem to work for some operations. TMC News reported on one contest that seems to have worked. According to the article, "The Construction Safety Association of BC (CSABC) has developed a winning formula to reach construction workers with the information they need to stay safe in the workplace."

" Thanks to an innovative online contest introduced by CSABC and its industry partners, safety in the workplace in now even more 'top of mind' for construction workers across the province."

" In September 2008, the Construction Safety Association of BC partnered with the Toyota BC Dealers Association and BC Construction Association (BCCA) to offer an exclusive, online contest. Designed to test the construction industry's safety knowledge through WorkSafeBC Toolbox Talks, the contest generated an immense online response, attracting more than 77,800 entries from across the province."

To read more, click here.

Obama Pledges to Increase Safety Enforcement

According to the Kansas City Star, "Asserting that mounting workloads and dwindling staff have hindered the government's ability to protect workers, President Barack Obama is pledging to increase the enforcement of workplace safety.

Obama's budget blueprint, released on Thursday, seeks to increase funding to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. More precise funding details for the job safety agency and other federal programs won't be released until April."

For those of you who have listened to me since the presidential election, this is exactly what I predicted. And I believe its a good thing too. Uninformed employers might get the message that safety on their jobsites IS important. I hope some of the subcontractors "get religion" - it'll make my efforts more effective.

And, it might also eliminate the necessity of OSHA's "inspection blitzes." You know, those things that OSHA says don't exist. I think they call them "saturation." Anyway, if the area offices are better funded, we'll have more consistency from OSHA and get the support we need in the prevention of workplace accidents.

To read the whole story in the Kansas City Star, click here.

Union Crane-Safety Teacher Admitted to Oversight Lapses

After two fatal tower crane accidents last year, New York City instituted a series of reforms to increase safety and oversight in the construction industry, including requiring a 30-hour class for crane operators and other workers on the safest way to raise and lower a tower crane.

But some sessions of the city-mandated class are being taught by a union official who has admitted that he helped unqualified people, including organized crime figures, get into his union, according to sworn testimony and investigative reports. He and other union officials helped some of those men secure licenses to operate smaller cranes at construction sites across the city, the testimony and the reports say.

Click Here to read the article in the New York Times

New York construction contractor agrees to pay $750,000 and take comprehensive jobsite safety steps in settlement with U.S. Labor Department

This one is HUGE! (see the story below) Even with a settlement agreement, this fine was only reduced by $127k – this contractor must really have been in trouble. The really sad thing is that had they done most of the terms of the settlement agreement ahead of time (as they should have) they wouldn’t have had to pay the fine or put their people at risk.

The difference between having a real safety professional at the helm of your loss prevention program vs. that guy who has been a good employee for many years that you want to keep working even though he has limited or no safety experience, is enormous. Having spent the past five years working as the safety director for a general contractor that subcontracts all of its work, dealing with a subcontractor who has a full time safety professional on staff (or a good safety consultant on retainer) is so much better than dealing with a subcontractor who just hopes he can get lucky and have no accidents or OSHA inspections.

Having a good, full-time corporate safety professional on board – a safety professional who has the real backing of management – sets the tone of the “safety culture” of the construction firm. Constant attention to safety communication with field personnel let’s them know that ONLY the safe way is acceptable!

A good solid safety program saves big dollars for any company. That commitment to safety and loss prevention shows your insurance company that you are on top of things and will probably result in significant savings on your General Liability Premiums. Reduced workers compensation claims will save big bucks on your workers compensation premiums. To say nothing of the savings in improved production, lost time, loss of materials due to accidents, etc. A well provisioned safety program will not cost a company anything. A good safety professional on staff will let you keep all of the money that you make in the field. I’m sure that Broadway Concrete will find that in a few short years, they will recover all of that $750k that they paid out.

New York-based concrete construction contractor 160 Broadway Corp., doing business as Broadway Concrete, has agreed to pay a $750,000 fine as part of a settlement agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) addressing hazards cited last summer. The company also will take comprehensive steps to upgrade employee safety and health at its worksites.

In June 2008, OSHA cited Broadway Concrete and proposed $877,000 in penalties against the company for fall hazards at the 77 Hudson condominium construction project in Jersey City, N.J. The company initially contested the citations and penalties but withdrew its notice of contest as part of a settlement agreement, signed Jan. 26, 2009, which reclassified 13 of the 15 willful citations as repeat violations.

Under the agreement, Broadway Concrete and its sister company, Regal Construction, have agreed to abate all the cited hazards and take the following additional steps beyond what is required under OSHA standards:

· Select and employ a full-time chief of construction operations and a corporate safety director to oversee construction operations and have authority over senior job superintendents in safety and health related issues.

· Employ a full-time site safety director on each large project and have a safety director inspect smaller projects at least once a week; the safety directors will have authority to stop work and direct changes to ensure site safety.

· Reduce the salary of senior job superintendents who fail to comply with applicable OSHA and job safety practices.

· Complete a comprehensive review of current construction means, methods and safety procedures, including a crew-based, task specific hazard assessment for every phase of current construction operations.

· Develop a new corporate safety and health plan.

· Finalize a site specific safety and health plan for each new project before work begins, ensure the job superintendent reads it and provides copies to onsite employees.

· Provide safety and health management training to superintendents and supervisory personnel working on each site, and train company and subcontractor employees on each site's safety and health plan.

· Provide OSHA officials with information on major projects and access to all jobsites without need of a warrant for the next four years.

"This settlement commits and challenges these employers to take broad, effective and long-lasting steps to make employee safety and health a vital and ongoing business priority," said Robert Kulick, OSHA's regional administrator in New York. "Active and engaged safety and health management is a critical tool for reducing worksite hazards and their associated human and financial costs."

EPA Expected to Regulate Carbon Dioxide

According to an article in the New York Times, "The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to act for the first time to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that scientists blame for the warming of the planet, according to top Obama administration officials.

The decision, which most likely would play out in stages over a period of months, would have a profound impact on transportation, manufacturing costs and how utilities generate power. It could accelerate the progress of energy and climate change legislation in Congress and form a basis for the United States’ negotiating position at United Nations climate talks set for December in Copenhagen.

The environmental agency is under order from the Supreme Court to make a determination whether carbon dioxide is a pollutant that endangers public health and welfare, an order that the Bush administration essentially ignored despite near-unanimous belief among agency experts that research points inexorably to such a finding."

To read the whole article, click here. I'm not sure what this may mean for the average Safety Practicioner - especially those of us who must also deal with clean air regs - but you can be sure that it will have an impact. What happens when carbon dioxide becomes a pollutant? Will we be required to test for its presence and then what will be the required response? Anyway, we need to keep an eye on this new development.

Construction Worker Killed

The Coastal Courier reports that "A construction worker was killed and another was hospitalized Friday after they fell about 35 feet from the platform of an extended forklift on Liberty County's Hampton Island. The victim, James Shanks, 46, was from Bluffton, S.C., authorities said. The second worker was identified as Jay Smith, 43, also from Bluffton. He was taken by ambulance to Memorial Health University Medical Center. His medical status was not immediately known.
The construction accident occured shortly before 1:30 p.m. on an exclusive resort island just outside of Riceboro.

Film actor Ben Affleck and his wife, actress Jennifer Garner, own a home in the gated community. Riceboro Fire and Rescue Chief Earl McGinley said the two men fell from a platform that had been raised about 35 feet into the air by a forklift at the site of a home under construction on the island’s Retreat Road. Liberty County Sheriff’s Office Detective Brian Barnes said Shanks was pronounced dead at the scene.

Barnes said four men working for Sailer Stone & Stucco LP of Bluffton were applying stucco to a chimney while standing on the elevated platform.
As the four were being lowered, other workers in the area said they heard a popping sound, and the forklift jerked, throwing two of the men off.
Work at the construction site was halted immediately and was not expected to resume until at least Tuesday, Barnes said.

Authorities at the site said they did not know what kind of safety record Sailer Stone & Stucco LP has."

Facebook for Safety Guys

Ok, I know that Facebook is what your kids use, but there's more to it than that. I have had a facebook presence for some time now for my hobby - genealogy. It has allowed me to connect with other people with the same hobby and has been helpful in the pursuit of my family genealogy. So why not a similar on-line community for Safety Pros? Anyway, I came across a press release about a Facebook page for Safety People and signed up a few moments ago - there are 1,149 of us using this tool already. I scrolled through the list of "members" of this on-line community and recognized a few names of safety pros that I have had contact with at some time in my 30+ year career.

Anyway, if you want to read more about it, click here to read the press release. If you want to visit the Facebook page directly, click here.

OSHA Announces New Acting Director

On 17 February 2009, a change in personnel was announced at OSHA. Mr. Noah Connell, Deputy Director, Directorate of Construction (DOC) within the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has been the Acting Director for the DOC since April 2008. This was the second time in three years that Mr. Connell has been Acting Director. However, the Administration has selected Mr. Richard Fairfax, Director, Directorate of Enforcement Programs to act as the Acting Director for the DOC. Mr. Fairfax will manage both the Directorate of Enforcement Programs and Construction until the new Secretary of Labor and Assistant Secretary of Labor, OSHA select a permanent Director for the DOC.

Mr. Steven Witt was the most recent Director for the DOC until April 2008 when it was announced by former Assistant Secretary Foulke that Mr. Witt would serve as the Director, Directorate of Cooperative and State Programs. Previous to Mr. Witt, Mr. R. Bruce Swanson was the Director for the DOC for many years.

New Labor Secretary's Agenda for Safety

Hilda L. Solis is the Secretary of Labor-designate and at her confirmation hearing last month she outlined four key priorities. One of those priorities addressed Safety & Health:

• Ensure safe, healthy and fair workplaces for American workers by enforcing compliance with employment laws. "Workers should not have to sacrifice their lives or their health to keep their jobs," said Soltis. "Workers need time and flexibility to care for their families and themselves. These are American values. They must be America's ordinary way of doing business."

These are great thoughts and as Safety Professionals they are usually what we believe. Isn't it unfortunate that most of the problems we encounter are not from uncaring employers but from the very workers we are trying to keep safe. How unfortunate that those same workers often try to "get away with doing things in an unsafe manner," not from employer pressure, but because they don't want to take the time to do it right. Don't get me wrong, there are employers who pressure for production while ignoring safety, but there is just as much problem with employees of conscientious employers.

Soltis is correct - workers should not have to sacrifice their lives or their health. Fellow Safety Professionals - Keep Up the Good Work!

NYC Building Official Wants "Carfax" for Cranes

Engineering News Record (ENR) reports that "after six months and nearly $4 million, New York City’s Dept. of Buildings on Feb. 3 recommended 41 measures to increase regulations for crane, concrete and excavation work. But industry experts say the standards, if implemented, may create more headaches and unnecessary costs. The city assembled a team of more than 30 engineers, including experts from Skokie, Ill.-based forensic consultant CTL Group. The measures chiefly focus on crane and hoisting operations. At the top is a need “to track critical components of tower cranes,” an idea that area experts casually call “CraneFax,” referring to a similar service for cars." For more on this story, visit ENR.com

OSHA Looking into Rig Fatality

The Shreveport Times reported this morning that "The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has opened an investigation into the Feb. 4 death of a worker on a natural gas drilling rig near Stonewall, an OSHA spokeswoman said Friday." According to the report, "Elizabeth Todd, who is with the OSHA regional office in Dallas, said the agency has up to six months to investigate accidents but a report could be released at any time before then."

Click here to read the whole article.

Ohio Company Fined $130k by OSHA

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has proposed $130,200 in fines against Novis Marine Ltd., a yacht design and fabrication company in Fairport Harbor, for alleged willful, serious and repeat violations of federal workplace safety standards.

OSHA's investigation, opened in August 2008, resulted in one willful citation for fall hazards associated with open-sided floors and platforms, 23 alleged serious violations involving electrical and fire hazards, lack of personal protective equipment and stair railings, machine guarding and training deficiencies. Repeat violations involved a lack of explosion proof equipment in paint spray booths and other potential fire hazards.

"Failing to practice required OSHA safety and health standards is detrimental to the welfare of American workers," said Rob Medlock, director of OSHA's area office in Cleveland, Ohio. "Any employer who is committed to providing a safe place of work can avoid employee injuries and fatalities by following OSHA's regulations."

Novis Marine Ltd. designs and constructs yachts and sailboat spars for various brands. The company has been inspected by OSHA numerous times since 1995 and has been cited for a variety of safety and health violations.

OSHA's Final Rule on PPE

My friend Frank reminded me that in January 2009, OSHA published its final rule "Clarification of Employers' Duty to Provide PPE and Train Each Employee. "As of January 12, 2009, employers that do not provide personal protective equipment (PPE) and training to every covered employee can be penalized for a separate violation for EACH unprotected or untrained worker.

The significant thing here is that prior to this new rule, OSHA could only issue one citation no matter how many employees were involved. For example, if 10 workers weren't wearing their required hard hats, you only got one citation. Under the new rules, you could receive 10 citations, one for each offending worker. This should get your attention!

What Do Charles Darwin & Abe Lincoln Have In Common

They share the same birthday! Yep, they were both born 200 years ago on 12 February 1809!

















Darwin, of course, is remembered for his On the Origin of Species and "survival of the fittest." Most recently, we in the safety profession revere his work in the "Darwin Awards" where we celebrate the idiocy that removes people from the gene pool. Darwin Awards are presented for people like this:

The construction trades have been revolutionized by new tools that are little short of miraculous. Take the nail gun. Operating on compressed air, it turns the tedious task of nailing into a simple point-and-click operation. It also makes possible a new way to injure yourself, one hitherto unknown: hammering a nail into your brain.Brad, a 33-year-old bricklayer, had just finished using a nail gun to install wall paneling at home. After the safety-minded man had turned off the compressor and removed the nail cartridge, he downed a few beers with his mates while they joked "about construction site accidents, and taking your eye out with a nail gun." For dramatic effect, Brad pointed his nail gun at his head and pulled the trigger. His mates noted a small red dot on his skin.

Brad figured the firing pin had simply glanced off his skull, powered by a left-over charge of compressed air. In fact, he had fired a 3.2cm nail into his brain. He started to feel light-headed, but didn't feel much pain due, perhaps, to the anesthetic effect of beer. Nevertheless, his son insisted on calling an ambulance.

When he arrived at the hospital the pain had become worse, so Brad asked the nurses for "a pair of pliers to pull it out myself." Instead, a neurosurgeon and a team of specialists spent four hours sawing through part of his skull and carefully removing the nail. Brad was expected to make a full recovery. "Luckily for him it lodged in the motor area of the brain and not more critical areas," said the doctor.

"I did a very stupid thing," said Brad. If the nail had been a centimeter deeper, he would likely have suffered permanent brain damage, or paralysis.

How will you celebrate Darwin's 200th Birthday?

13 OSHA Citations for Graham, TX Facility

Fox TV reported last night that "Federal safety officicials have issued 13 citations for safety and healt violations to a Graham Texas manufacturing plant that had a fatal fire over the summer.

The OSHA citations to Texas Recreation include 11 serious violations ranging from improper storage of flammable liquids to having a work area exposed to the spread of fire. Several of the violations were found in the room where three of the plant workers were severely burned, one of them fatally and one still in the hospital in serious condition."

Top Ten Ways To Tell If Your OSHA Inspection Is Going Badly

10. OSHA sets up temporary housing in your parking lot.

9. The Compliance Officer mutters, "This is unbelievable" each time he or she enters a different area.

8. OSHA calls in a professional film crew to document conditions on your site and a reporter from "60 Minutes" tags along.

7. The Compliance Officer insists on wearing a moon suit supplied with SCBA, while your employees work in jeans and tennis shoes.

6. The Congressman you called for help won't return your call, but he does return your campaign contribution.

5. The Compliance Officer begins the opening conference with the following: "You have the right to remain silent..."

4. The Compliance Officer asks you a specific question about a report in your files, but you haven't turned any over yet.

3. The Compliance Officer knows each of your employees by their first name.

2. The Compliance Officer is a former employee that you fired.

1. Thomas M. Stohler conducts the closing conference.

Aerial Work Platforms and Mast Climbers

I just received the February 2009 edition of Professional Safety in the mail. For those of you who are ASSE members, you know how valuable a publication this magazine is. If you're not an ASSE member, consider joining. (Click the ASSE Join Today! link at left).

Anyway, when I came to Southwest Florida, I had never seen a mast climber. But they were in use on virtually every construction project under my purview so I had to learn quickly. A call to the local OSHA office informed me that they didn't know much about them either. They told me to "deal with them as if they are a supported scaffold." Well, I guess they are, but there is a lot more to this equipment too.

If you have a copy of the February 2009 Professional Safety magazine, turn to page 12 and read the article on "Aerial Work Safety." It refers to Mast Climbing Work Platforms or MCWPs and cites some interesting statistics:

1. An average of 12,600 people use MCWPs each day.
2. About 4,200 units operate each day in the U.S.
3. More than 2.5 million work hours are spent erecting and dismantling MCWPs each year.
4. About 7 to 8 near-hits occur on MCWPs each work day in the U.S.

The article also cites "several areas of concern based on worksite observations:

1. insubstantial planking on the front edge of the platform causing either a trip or fall hazard,
2. inadequate anchor installation and testing,
3. anchors over- or undertightened,
4. ties temporarily removed and inadequately reinstated during use,
5. inadequately trained and assessed installers and users.

Here is a photo that I took of an installer operating in an unsafe manner. The "diving board" on which he is working was common practice - at least until I spotted him.

Anyway, if you have had trouble finding any documentation on mast climber safety, visit www.ipaf.org and/or www.awpt.org - they have some useful information. There is a 29 page at awpt.org entitled "IPAF Guidelines for the Safe Use of Mast Climbing Work Platforms" that you might find interesting.

Miami Construction Worker Rescued from Hole

The Miami Herald reported today that "A construction worker was pulled out of an eight-foot-deep hole Monday near Griffin Road in Southwest Ranches.

The man, 36, who was not immediately identified, was helping lay pipes as part of a street-widening project near Southwest 170th Avenue. Just before 11 a.m., Broward Fire-Rescue received a call that the man was stuck in the hole.

When firefighters arrived, they saw the man leaning over a 42-inch pipe. He said the concrete pipe struck him in the midsection, according to spokesman Mike Jachles.

He was airlifted to Memorial Regional Hospital."

That's all I know so far. I'll report more if I can.

Aerial Lift Accident Results in Death

According to the Boston Globe, "Federal safety officials and city homicide detectives continued yesterday to investigate the death Saturday of a worker who was slammed into a Downtown Crossing building when the aerial lift he was working from tipped over.

James Williamson and a second worker, Greg Johnson, were inspecting the roof of a Suffolk University dormitory Saturday morning when the 110-foot-tall aerial lift toppled into a condo building on West Street.

Williamson was hurled into the building and died at Massachusetts General Hospital Saturday evening. The hospital upgraded Johnson's condition from serious to fair yesterday. Fire officials said Johnson fell or jumped onto a second-floor rooftop as the lift fell.

Suffolk University officials said the school hired Tremco Inc. of Lakeville to inspect some of the buildings' rooftops. Tremco in turn hired Reliable Roofing and Sheet Metal of Framingham to perform the work.

Deryl Kratzer, president of Tremco Roofing and Building Maintenance, which is based in Beachwood, Ohio, said in a statement yesterday that Williamson was an employee of Tremco, while the injured worker is employed by Reliable Roofing. Kratzer said Tremco is cooperating with authorities."

To read the whole story, click here.

Pandemic Flu Time Again!

Yes, it's flu time again and many safety professionals deal with this issue. And, it can be a big deal! I know that there are a lot of people out of work, but having your key employees out with the flu can really hurt your business. And there are some things that we can do to prevent our workforce from getting the flu.

According to OSHA, a pandemic is a global disease outbreak. An influenza pandemic occurs when a new influenza virus emerges for which there is little or no immunity in the human population; begins to cause serious illness; and then spreads easily person-to-person worldwide. A worldwide influenza pandemic could have a major effect on the global economy, including travel, trade, tourism, food, consumption and eventually, investment and financial markets. Planning for pandemic influenza by business and industry is essential to minimize a pandemic's impact.

It is difficult to predict when the next influenza pandemic will occur or how severe it will be. Wherever and whenever a pandemic starts, everyone around the world is at risk. Countries might, through measures such as border closures and travel restrictions, delay arrival of the virus, but cannot stop it.

During a pandemic, transmission can be anticipated in the workplace, not only from patient to workers in health care settings, but also among co-workers in general work settings. A pandemic would cause high levels of illness, death, social disruption, and economic loss. Everyday life would be disrupted because so many people in so many places become seriously ill at the same time. Impacts could range from school and business closings to the interruption of basic services such as public transportation and food delivery.

Education and outreach are critical to preparing for a pandemic. Understanding what a pandemic is, what needs to be done at all levels to prepare for pandemic influenza, and what could happen during a pandemic helps us make informed decisions both as individuals and as a nation. Should a pandemic occur the public must be able to depend on its government to provide scientifically sound public health information quickly, openly and dependably. For additional information on pandemic influenza, see One-stop access to U.S.government avian and pandemic flu information.

OSHA Fines Roofing Contractor $50k

OSHA has cited Peach State Roofing for an alleged workplace safety violation, at 677 Cross Keys Road, in Sicklerville, where two of its employees were working. OSHA initiated its inspection on July 16, 2008, as part of a local emphasis program focused on fall hazards in construction. As a result of the inspection, the company received one citation for a repeat violation with a proposed penalty of $50,000. Click Here for the full story from CCH.

NYC Mayor Calls for OSHA Crackdown on Bogus Safety Classes

Following the exposure of an unscrupulous construction outreach trainer, the Daily News reported that Mayor Bloomberg called for a crackdown by the federal government on this practice. Hopefully, this is not a large scale problem. As with anything, there is always someone trying to make a buck by subverting a system. For those of us who are dedicated safety professionals, we should welcome such an investigation. It's just too bad that it happens. To read more on Mayor Bloomberg's call for investigation, click here.

El Paso Contractor Fined $106k

Here's one close to my new home - that is if you think Pensacola is close to Fort Myers. OSHA is proposing $106,200 in penalties against El Paso-based Best Plastering Contractors for allegedly exposing employees to potential fall hazards.

OSHA issued the citations alleging four willful and three serious violations following an investigation that began July 11, 2008, when agency inspectors witnessed employees working on a scaffold without using fall protection equipment at the company's worksite on Patriot Point Drive in El Paso.

"The fines reflect the company's failure to follow OSHA requirements and their indifference toward providing their employees with a safe workplace environment," said Dean McDaniel, OSHA's regional administrator in Dallas. "It is fortunate that no one was seriously injured."

The willful citations are for failing to fully plank working levels of the scaffold; to set up the scaffold on adequate foundation; to supply workers with a ladder or other safe access to the scaffold working levels; and to provide guardrails for employees working on upper levels of the scaffold. A willful violation is one committed with plain indifference to or intentional disregard for employee safety and health.

Serious violations included failing to provide training for employees who used portland cement, a chemical which can cause skin burns; to properly brace the scaffold; and to repair or replace damaged scaffold components. A serious violation exists when there is a substantial probability that death or serious physical harm could result and the employer knew or should have known of the hazard.

The very sad thing is that most of us in the construction safety profession preach these very same things every day. And, it doesn't matter where in the country we work. As a safety director for a general contractor, I find a lot of subcontractors who work hard at providing their workers with safety training. But, for every one who cares, there are a dozen who don't care. Scaffolding requires the supervision of a "competent person" and I believe that if contractors complied with that one rule - having a real "competent person" on-site - the hazards noted here would not have existed. I am surprised that the subcontractor wasn't cited for the lack of a competent person - or the n0n-existence of the required scaffold inspection.

A Black Eye for Safety Trainers

I read with interest and disgust an article in the NY Daily News about the selling of OSHA 10 hour cards by so-called instructors offering the class in bars and taking only about 2 hours to complete the course. These people give the rest of us a bad name!

If you are an OSHA authorized construction outreach trainer, I suggest that you read the article (click here). There are a couple of facts that jumped out at me. First, there are only 39 construction outreach trainers in NYC. I find it incredible that there are so few in such a heavily populated area. Second, it states that many of those trainers got their "certification" on-line. Now I believe in on-line training, but not for the initial trainer certification. For the refresher training, assuming that the candidate has been actively teaching, ok. And on-line 10 and 30 hour classes should only be used when hands-on classes are unavailable. There is just something missing without the classroom back-and-forth between the instructor and attendees and between the attendees themselves.

Shame on any instructor that would short-change workers on safety training. We're not talking about getting out 15 or 20 minutes early here. I don't know about you, but I take safety training very seriously and this type of malfeasance gives us all a black eye.