carrierpigeon

Mike Orren does more to prejudice the topic than does 'Safetyman'. Safetyman's point is spot on. Anyone that has been held responsible for ensuring safety compliance knows it is a most difficult uphill battle that workers find innumerable ways around. I'm not a GC nor do I work for any construction company, now, but I have worked on many an oil drilling platform in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico, done a variety of construction jobs, and have been a Firefighter/Paramedic in the metroplex for a generation, now. I am one of the guys that gets to extricate and/or disembark the construction workers from the messes they get themselves into. I also have a fair amount of OSHA training obtained through TEEX from various training locations and on a broad variety of topics. Scaffolds will fall. Its going to happen. People will die in construction regardless of the precautions taken. Its inescapable. That doesn't mean the safety profession is wasting its time. It means that the exaggerated responses when a guy falls off a scaffold in knee-jerk fingerpointing is emotional drivel. In 30 years of dangerous physical work and a career of cleaning up messes, I have found the most common cause of danger in large scale projects is brought about by the individual workers not being mindful of safety requirements that they had formal training to avoid and that the equipment was at hand to comply with.

Safetyman's affiliation with the company at hand has no empirical bearing on whether what he is saying is self-serving. It might actually occur to less cynical observers that someone close to the situation might actually be a MORE informed source, regardless of whether that person freely divulged how he obtained such knowledge.

Zebra is awesome. Trees would be a great venue for that band. Dallas' music scene would prosper if bands of Zebra's ilk would cruise through on a regular basis. My son's band played Trees several times opening for national acts. It will hold a couple hundred people. Good times!

I would like to take an opportunity to apologize for responding earlier today to a post by Mr. Kaufman. Had I spent more than 2 minutes reading his post and realizing how bitterly biased he is in general, I would have been more inclined to ignore him as it is evident most people in these posts do.

I commit to spend more time on a particular site becoming familiar with the bigots before wasting my time putting my two cents worth into responses to them.