I’ve just started the late afternoon-to-night shift, which means I wake up around 4 p.m. every day and go to bed around 8 a.m. – with a “lunch” break at 1 a.m. We’re dealing with heavy machinery and hazardous, fire-prone gases like acetylene and oxygen, so carefully planning ahead is absolutely essential.
For over two decades, I’ve been working as a work safety technician, and in all these years I’ve taken part in building and assemblage projects for a whole range of industries – chemical plants, refineries, thermal power stations. In all those industries the policies and protocols around safety culture are important, of course, but the really crucial thing is focusing on people first. If you lose sight of what is needed to protect them, accidents are more likely to happen.
