Part of my job is being in charge of safety. Today I am putting together safety presentations for the workers and I came across a few photos of "unsafe" construction practices. Now I know that construction workers don't always have the best reputation of being incredibly intelligent and it is pictures like these that perpetuate that perception.
They may not be the brightest but they won't let common sense get in the way of getting the job done!
I don't know about that last one. It's too small to tell if they have a safety harness, or some sort of catch device on. Or what's below them really. It's cropped in a manner that might make it more unsafe than it really was.
ReplyDeleteThen again, it looks like skyscraper construction from the 30's so it's not like they were all that concerned about their workers. Especially Jimmy, the guy they made go out on the cables. Good 'ol Jimmy.
Yes it is hard to tell but I think he is pretty high up there without much of a safety harness. There is a series of these photos from this time, the most common is the Construction Workers Lunching photo:
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This was well before OSHA!
By the way it was taken in 1932.
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