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Posted: 8/1/2014 9:15:38 PM EDT

what they really mean is; If there are no broken bones and you're still coherent, slap a band aid on it, don't be a bitch, and get back to work.

Posted: 8/1/2014 9:24:37 PM EDT

[#1]

Or, it could mean that the health plan is about to change, for the worse, and they want you to file claims before the changeover.

Posted: 8/1/2014 9:26:21 PM EDT

[#2]

Ha, they wanted us to report even a near miss. Guess how many times that got done.

Posted: 8/1/2014 9:28:07 PM EDT

[#3]

did you get a break and a free band aid?

Posted: 8/1/2014 9:29:49 PM EDT

[#4]

In my industry it is required to report even the smallest of injuries as well as near misses. We do not even have a first aid kit with bandaids because everything is to be reported and taken to medical. I know a lot of minor things don't get reported.

Posted: 8/1/2014 9:32:01 PM EDT

[#5]

I filled out a report for getting hit in the nutz with a hammer..

Wasn't a big deal injury but they said ALL injuries.. Was entertaining..

Posted: 8/1/2014 9:37:07 PM EDT

[#6]

Where I work all injuries and near misses get reported. The reports get distributed thru all of the plants. The company takes safety very serious. It's cheaper in the long run to spend the money to make things safe than it is to pay L&I claims and increased L&I insurance rates.

Posted: 8/1/2014 9:41:39 PM EDT

[#7]

i was in a plant that had the employees reporting mosquito bites, they had the nurse respond to put ointment on their ouchie

Posted: 8/1/2014 9:43:32 PM EDT

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Was he at least cute?

Posted: 8/1/2014 9:44:49 PM EDT

[#9]

My workplace is like that too. Some people report the whole "I bumped my elbow and it hurt a little" kind of stuff which annoys me to all hell because all near misses are read in the morning.

Earlier this week I was welding and had a rag smoldering behind me outside of the curtains and my supervisor noticed it as he walked by and there was no near miss reported from that

Posted: 8/1/2014 9:46:02 PM EDT

[#10]

One of the guys on my survey crew got stung on the wrist by a paper wasp last week.

They made him fill out an incident report and go to the local clinic.

Lawyers are pussies and expect everyone else to abide by their lowest common denominator.

Just 10 short years ago, I was swarmed by yellow-jackets. After more than a dozen stings, I was told to suck it up and get back to work, which is exactly what I did.

Posted: 8/1/2014 9:47:09 PM EDT

[#11]

Suck it up and keep working!

Posted: 8/1/2014 9:48:20 PM EDT

[#12]

We're supposed to report *everything* at my work. Turns out they even counted bandaids in the first aid kits around the buildings. One guy started putting extra bandaids in the kits, you wouldn't believe the shitstorm that happened when their count was higher than before.

Posted: 8/1/2014 10:33:51 PM EDT

[#13]

What they want is for you to lie. No near misses. No accidents.

They achieve this by making it so fucking miserable any time there is an accident or near miss--through endless fucking meetings and "investigations" and the inevitable resulting policy changes--that you would have to have an amputated limb before you would even THINK about reporting it.

Have they given you the buzz statement yet that ALL ACCIDENTS ARE AVOIDABLE ?

Think of it this way: political correctness on a pure physical level where accidents and near misses are white, Christian, heterosexual gun owners.

Posted: 8/1/2014 10:47:14 PM EDT

[#14]

Haha...

I also know a guy who filled one out after receiving a black eye from wayward horse dong..

Posted: 8/1/2014 10:47:25 PM EDT

[#15]

I seen a guy break a tap off and get a 4 inch cut in his arm. It was bleeding so bad they changed the bandage every 10 minutes. He kept welding for 2 hours then went to the hospital and said he tripped and cut it on a rock. Some people will do dumb shit to not have to take a drug test...

Posted: 8/1/2014 10:51:33 PM EDT

[#16]

I had a few reportable accidents when I was driving a forklift. Management wanted to know, I told them, I took the drug test and went back to work. Never heard more about it.

Posted: 8/1/2014 10:55:06 PM EDT

[#17]

Place I worked had the "Report all injuries, no matter how slight" policy.

First week after the all employee stand down, one of my guys snagged a finger on some chain link fence wire while closing a gate....and reported it.

45 min. of filling out bullshit, and CC e-mail notifications to the Pope, Vishnu and the beach boys later, the guy had to take a fitness for duty eval., complete with pissing in the cup.

All said and done, plus three days later, the greater minds determined the employee should be disciplined for a lack of situational awareness during the course of his duties...and he was awarded three days off.

This went over like a fart in church with the Union, and the regulating agency was notified that a "Hostile work environment had been created" by policy.
All shit broke loose, with the Managers head hunting supervisors to blame for enforcing policy as directed. Last I knew, it was still a fuck story and unresolved.

Moral of the story...if ya break your leg, getting run over by a dump truck at work, the shit happened at home, or you're going to get fired.

Posted: 8/1/2014 10:56:13 PM EDT

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Yup. I dropped a pen. I bent over to pick it up. Then, I remembered the propaganda ad on AFN and lifted with my knees, not my back. Whew, that was close one.

The Safety/Compliance folks were unamused.

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Posted: 8/1/2014 11:00:13 PM EDT

[#19]

It could mean that its a pain in the ass to deal with late injury reports and work comp claims and it's easier for insurance companies to deny bullshit claims when if it were a real injury the employee would have / should have reported his injury.

Posted: 8/1/2014 11:02:32 PM EDT

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Yup. I dropped a pen. I bent over to pick it up. Then, I remembered the propaganda ad on AFN and lifted with my knees, not my back. Whew, that was close one.

The Safety/Compliance folks were unamused.

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Ha, they wanted us to report even a near miss. Guess how many times that got done.

Yup. I dropped a pen. I bent over to pick it up. Then, I remembered the propaganda ad on AFN and lifted with my knees, not my back. Whew, that was close one.

The Safety/Compliance folks were unamused.

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Depending who was standing behind you, it may have been a near miss..

Protect your cornhole, file a report..