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Rich, can you get a list of typical fines for infractions? I heard, very 3rd hand, that lacking leg protection and lacking hard hats on a tree site are $1000 and $2000, or vice versa, fines here. That puts a price tag on it for the owner to say "Invest in PPE/ Safety that avoids injuries...

Way to Go, Rich! Seems like every crew still needs someone to lead, even on easy jobs, unless they're really easy. Doesn't have to boss people around, but someone responsible for safety meeting/ job briefing, inventorying gear back into the truck/ checking the jobsite, point of contact for...

Good work!! And getting backed up by the pro!

P.S. Maybe the company needs Jerry's training series. ISA also has a lot of publications that are suitable for training aids, along with tree catologs, like sherrill. Animated Knots by Grog--animatedknots.com. TREESTUFF has training info.

Concrete examples, visual aids, etc. Give the guys a small branch and a grape. or a toothpick and a grape,and ask them to spear the grape. then hand them their safety glasses. That's about as hard as an eyeball is to pierce with a stick. one eye Bob, a career logger, 50 something years old, got...

Setting it up for them in detail will help it get off the ground. Written instructions for how your inventory system is supposed to work, (including a Parts Used list/ needs to be restocked) should help them see how it should function. Its important to know what got used up/ broken/ lost so...

What ideas did you pitch them, which came to nothing? Maybe revisiting them with a more solid 'turn-key' solution???

you don't get what you don't ask for. Try to show how safety improvements could save big bucks with some concrete examples. use near miss examples from your jobs and ways to avoid those near misses. maybe you can suggest that you step up their safety program. Simple thing like a written driving...