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[John Bridge]

Bud had to mention OSHA on another thread. Got me to thinking about my sole encounter with that astute outfit. Was doing a bank several years ago and got caught. Some of the other subs actually saw the guy show up and literally ran away from the jobsite.

But not me. The guy tore me a new ass. No proper first aid kit (we had band aids). No material safety data sheets (I didn't know what they were). No "hazcom." (Gotta tell ya that's a plan you're supposed to have with you all the time that tells people not to inhale thinset.)

Anyway, when all was said and done they wanted $1800 from me. I sent Patti down there, and by the time they got tired of listening to her telling them how poor we were, they reduced it to $600.

Ain't any OSHA people listening in, I hope. Any of you a-holes lurking out there?

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[JC]

Nope never seen them yet...knock,knock on wood

[Bud Cline]

My incident didn't get violent nor was I threatened with fines.

Most everyone just kinda' disappeared and he really couldn't identify who belonged to what at the time, so he just walked thru with the superintendent. I had no idea who he was, but I did notice it got so quiet throughout the entire jobsite you could hear a pin drop.

Hell I thought he was an owner or somebody. He pretty-well trashed everything everyone had on the job, I wasn't the only one.

It was the "super" that turned into a big.....well let's just say he was not a happy man after the guy left.

[flatfloor]

We too used to just dissapear.

The one time we were inspected, we were working on the second floor of a two story building no other trades working there. My guys were nailing mesh into a wood floor, bent over naturally, with no hardhats on. Osha wanted them on, when we explained that due to gravity they would fall off, he insisted on chin straps. We left on some pretext.

[tileprof]

they are only a..holes till someone gets seriously hurt,then its whos goning to pay!!!!

[John Bridge]

Got somebody like OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) in Canada, Steven?

[Bud Cline]

When I did Park improvements for the Corps of Engineers everytime there was a major construction project at the lake we always had visits from OSHA. They stopped my job one day because we weren't wearing hard hats. They were driving (two guys) across the dam at Grapevine Lake when they looked down below and saw us working in an open area. In fact I couldn't even produce a hard hat that day. We were in the middle of a park pouring a concrete pad for a group shelter. They went straight to the Corps office and for about three weeks after that the Rangers made us wear our hardhats. Erecting fencing, installing BBQ grilles, pouring sidewalks, etc.

[flatfloor]

Never know when an Acorn or a Racoon might fall out of a tree.

[tileprof]

we have W.C.B. (workers compensation board)every employer pays into it( %).they also come on jobs and write you up for unsafe practices.if you get hurt and are unable to work they will pay biweekly(non-taxable income).was on it for 8 months one time when i tore my ligiments in my elbow(88)

[Ron]

Yeah,we got them in Canada too.I was tiling a dental clinic in Toronto.The ceiling was installed,the walls were primed yet still this safety inspector came by every day to verbally harrass me about the damn hard hat issue.I'm very safety conscious while working but I did not see the need for a hard hat as a tilesetter.I told him that me having to wear the hardhat and it falling into the mortar all the time actually turned the place into a decidedly "unsafe" environment.
No sense of humour or compromise on the man.Threatened to fine the general contractor.So we only put them on when he walked in.