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This strikes a chord with me.
I worked for many years in IT, also running my own mechanical shops where I set the standards and enforced them. This past year I've managed a small team that maintains equipment in a factory. My guys are pretty good with safety, one of them ran his own cabinet shop for years, the other a US Navy vet with flight deck leadership experience.
The first thing I did after moving over from IT was to purchase an online training class in CalOSHA electrical safety for everyone on my team and several others in the department. You can't see electricity and it will kill you instantly if you get it wrong so this is critical IMHO. Sometimes I'll look at the work others have done before me and just wonder why they thought it was okay to do it like that.
It's everyone's responsibility to make sure that we all go home at the end of the day, so what you did was right and necessary. Don't let it bother you, all you need to do is think about what could happen if you turn the other way.
John
I worked for many years in IT, also running my own mechanical shops where I set the standards and enforced them. This past year I've managed a small team that maintains equipment in a factory. My guys are pretty good with safety, one of them ran his own cabinet shop for years, the other a US Navy vet with flight deck leadership experience.
The first thing I did after moving over from IT was to purchase an online training class in CalOSHA electrical safety for everyone on my team and several others in the department. You can't see electricity and it will kill you instantly if you get it wrong so this is critical IMHO. Sometimes I'll look at the work others have done before me and just wonder why they thought it was okay to do it like that.
It's everyone's responsibility to make sure that we all go home at the end of the day, so what you did was right and necessary. Don't let it bother you, all you need to do is think about what could happen if you turn the other way.
John