Part I: Introduce yourself to your classmates with your name, location (Tennessee $, current employment(Trainmaster), and future goals.

Part II: Discuss with the class a workplace tragedy from the past that could have been prevented with what we know about safety today.

Please include the name of the person or question to which you are replying in the subject line. For example, “Tom’s response to Susan’s comment.”

ALAO PLEASE REPLY TO ANOTHER STUDENTS COMMENT BELOW 

Phillip:

Good morning all My name is Phil . I am a construction superintendent by day and I own a freelance graphic design company that provides print and custom apparel. 

In my long time career 9f construction I’ve personal seen many accidents and even was a victim of negligence myself. I am NYC raised and trained and for most of years in the business ive seen multiple critical accidents that could of been prevented with proper planning and 5 more minutes of action. In the year of 1998 I was fresh in the business and had no concept of real jobsite training. One morning in Queens, NY I was walking with.the crew on top of a commercial jobsite (we were roofers). This happened to be a rainy week so the site the night prior covered the open penetrations on the room. They didn’t do it the proper way being that used ONLY a blue tarp to cover 36″ cutouts. Long story short a couple worker was drinking their coffee walking on the roof, which was his first day on-site, stepped on a tarp and fell 2 stories. They survived but suffered terrible amnesia for years. Proper labeling, material and guarding could of prevented this man’s life altering accident.