We have cameras in our work trucks for our own safety yet only a couple have back up cameras, We have to wear chin straps on hard hats now and are supposed to wear them at all times because one could fall backward and strike the back of their head. I have heard the "if we could just save one life" BS spun before by our safety officers and have gone to great length to study rotational injury stats just so I can argue the point of not wearing it just to be told to shut up and follow protocol. I figure somebody gets in bed with somebody else (manufacturer and insurance company) and makes it mandatory. My company doesn't care they just don't want to pay more for insurance so we have bright shiny snitch cameras in dilapidated trucks. They told us that no one monitors it but then they've had special meetings to tell us not to flip the camera off, put up signs or draw dicks in it's view and any moving or blocking it's view is considered tampering with a safety device. I got in trouble at one of the meetings for asking if we still get to double pass material (it's like doing a job that takes X amount guys to accomplish but instead using half, exhausting the crew and increasing the chance of injury or incident and pissing everyone off in general) or are we worried about that one life? I'm sure there is some AI in the system that they use but it's not there for our benefit. The only benefit I could see from this is if we had personal monitors like on our phones so we could call bullshit when they told us an area is clear of health hazards airborne or other but we would probably have to pay for that and it would probably get ignored. Several sites (FB) we are not even allowed to have our phones out or take pictures so I doubt that would be allowed. What really concerns me is the making it mandatory aspect they try to do with everything and the lie that it's for our own good. I hope that there are still enough people who see this and reject it but doubt it. They only have to convince the youth that it's just us old fogies clinging to our whatever, archaic rights and personal decisions that are hindering progress and you don't want to be like them do you and it will become the norm.
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