We're having work done at the site where I'm posted as security. Any new people working at the site get safety training by Security, their Contact Person, and the Representative of the Company (Site Manager, whatever) they're working for while on our Property. The safety Guidelines they have to fill out for Security ALONE is 6-pages! This regards agreeing to wear the proper safety gear, no jewelry, proper hygiene, no jewelry, using badges to enter the building, no jewelry...see where this is going?
This site makes FOOD! For the everyday employees the safety procedures are strict. They're double strict for outsiders! We give them reminders if we catch someone violating a rule; a few more times they're supervisor gets involved. If they blow them off too, they're kicked off the job.
For the last week we've talked to the SAME PEOPLE FROM THE SAME COMPANIES about remembering to wear safety vests, hair nets, and removing their jewelry. A half-dozen people a DAY forget to remove jewelry! At first they argued, then they tried ignoring security until we called over their supervisor, and now they remove it, but put it back on when they think we're not watching.
Now it's escalated. I caught a guy wearing a very obvious necklace AND bracelet and told him they needed to come off. He turned around in an angry huff, yanked the necklace up and asked "Are you really going to make me take off a religious relic!?"
Yes, it was a necklace with a cross; possibly a 14K plated Pimp-My-Image convenience store special. I almost caught myself lecturing "No, a RELIC would be, say, the finger bone of a saint. What you have there is a religious SYMBOL or ICON." Instead I just said it had to come off because it could still fall into the food. Then I went to the guy's supervisor. I wasn't going to put myself in the position of being accused of discrimination or some bull like that. His refusal went in my daily report.
The Supervisor's mouth pretty much flapped like a fish. He said that this was the last straw, if these Contractors wanted to be treated like 5-year olds he was going to sit them down and treat them like 5-year olds, because he was sick of their behavior as he got reamed for it. He's going to start kicking them off the project if they continue It's about time. He already kicked an entire company off the project for safety violations.
This site makes FOOD! For the everyday employees the safety procedures are strict. They're double strict for outsiders! We give them reminders if we catch someone violating a rule; a few more times they're supervisor gets involved. If they blow them off too, they're kicked off the job.
For the last week we've talked to the SAME PEOPLE FROM THE SAME COMPANIES about remembering to wear safety vests, hair nets, and removing their jewelry. A half-dozen people a DAY forget to remove jewelry! At first they argued, then they tried ignoring security until we called over their supervisor, and now they remove it, but put it back on when they think we're not watching.
Now it's escalated. I caught a guy wearing a very obvious necklace AND bracelet and told him they needed to come off. He turned around in an angry huff, yanked the necklace up and asked "Are you really going to make me take off a religious relic!?"
Yes, it was a necklace with a cross; possibly a 14K plated Pimp-My-Image convenience store special. I almost caught myself lecturing "No, a RELIC would be, say, the finger bone of a saint. What you have there is a religious SYMBOL or ICON." Instead I just said it had to come off because it could still fall into the food. Then I went to the guy's supervisor. I wasn't going to put myself in the position of being accused of discrimination or some bull like that. His refusal went in my daily report.
The Supervisor's mouth pretty much flapped like a fish. He said that this was the last straw, if these Contractors wanted to be treated like 5-year olds he was going to sit them down and treat them like 5-year olds, because he was sick of their behavior as he got reamed for it. He's going to start kicking them off the project if they continue It's about time. He already kicked an entire company off the project for safety violations.
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