Jan 26, 2024 06:31 PM
Long arm frees Nutt. Hard squeeze has lost its grip..
https://ij.org/press-release/federal-jud...-engineer/
How much of this goes on?
I worked with engineers all my life but I'm not one. Our company was run by engineers. My department looked after logistics, purchasing, inventory controls but were separate from field workers. As much as I admired the engineers I also felt same for many of the field workers who always were encouraged to put forward their ideas for new tools, procedures or anything that made job safe or less costly. Their innovative skills had cash rewards. Once we became a unionized shop there wasn't much contact between engineers and field crews. Long story short, eventually safety became compromised resulting in deaths, lawsuits and insurance downgrade which resulted in high costs and a massive safety campaign.
Was informed by engineer that we were about to receive 3 warehouses full of unused parts and gave me crayons that could write on steel with instructions to have my guys put company part numbers on everything. I told him in no way, shape or form will my staff put part numbers on anything from these warehouses. He went over my head, I was threatened one morning from above but I had a Health & Safety meeting that day with our local area manager(an engineer) in attendance.
None of the engineers realized what kind of safety issue they were about to violate. I reminded everyone at the meeting that all company parts are made to certain specifications. One part could have different sizes for instance, thus each received a different number. Since we had no idea what the specs were for each of these parts it would be entirely possible that a wrong number be placed on a part that could cause considerable damage and death if it wasn't for the job intended. General Manager agreed, took it up with his bosses and lo and behold an engineer complete with all types of measuring devices was assigned the job of labeling these parts. After a week he told me he could only correctly label about 30% and had no clue about the other stuff. Seventy percent was trashed, thousands upon thousands of dollars worth turned to scrap metal mostly. But no one died because of them. Good thing it never went public, some folks stood to lose a lot. I was ready for retirement by then.
https://ij.org/press-release/federal-jud...-engineer/
How much of this goes on?
I worked with engineers all my life but I'm not one. Our company was run by engineers. My department looked after logistics, purchasing, inventory controls but were separate from field workers. As much as I admired the engineers I also felt same for many of the field workers who always were encouraged to put forward their ideas for new tools, procedures or anything that made job safe or less costly. Their innovative skills had cash rewards. Once we became a unionized shop there wasn't much contact between engineers and field crews. Long story short, eventually safety became compromised resulting in deaths, lawsuits and insurance downgrade which resulted in high costs and a massive safety campaign.
Was informed by engineer that we were about to receive 3 warehouses full of unused parts and gave me crayons that could write on steel with instructions to have my guys put company part numbers on everything. I told him in no way, shape or form will my staff put part numbers on anything from these warehouses. He went over my head, I was threatened one morning from above but I had a Health & Safety meeting that day with our local area manager(an engineer) in attendance.
None of the engineers realized what kind of safety issue they were about to violate. I reminded everyone at the meeting that all company parts are made to certain specifications. One part could have different sizes for instance, thus each received a different number. Since we had no idea what the specs were for each of these parts it would be entirely possible that a wrong number be placed on a part that could cause considerable damage and death if it wasn't for the job intended. General Manager agreed, took it up with his bosses and lo and behold an engineer complete with all types of measuring devices was assigned the job of labeling these parts. After a week he told me he could only correctly label about 30% and had no clue about the other stuff. Seventy percent was trashed, thousands upon thousands of dollars worth turned to scrap metal mostly. But no one died because of them. Good thing it never went public, some folks stood to lose a lot. I was ready for retirement by then.
