Any employer that doesn't try to follow safety rules should be fined daily for that abuse. How's that!!!
As long as the employer has the right to can you on the spot, and deny you unemployment benefits for failure, upon any instance, of you not using all protection provided to you.
If that were the case I could fire 90% of my crew for not wearing safety glasses, and I preach how important that is.
How about no smoking on the jobsite, which is a safety violation? I don’t hear any whining that I don’t enforce that one, (unless the GC makes in an issue).
How about no radios on the jobsite that is a safety violation? Anyone going to whine about this?
How about that union tool list, why isn’t cotton clothes mandated as part of appropriate attire for union electricians? You have to wear the appropriate pants and shoes, why not shirts?
There is a big difference between providing protective clothing and expecting the highest paid tradesman on the job to show up appropriately attired for their chosen profession.
[This message has been edited by ITO (edited 12-12-2006).]