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5 to 7am I walk up to the orientation/safety trailer with my gear slung over my shoulder and I ask the dude there outside with the radio for orientation. He's got a mask on. Tells me to put mine on to which I say, not outside. SIX FEET AWAY he says, mask on. Not outside, I repeat. I'm not spitting on you. WHEN YOU'RE SIX FEET AWAY PUT YOUR MASK ON he yells. Why are you getting mad? I ask. I think he mumbled not mad, said something else I can't recall, and stormed off. There's bunch of people there, all masked of course. I'm the only one and Everyone's looking at me. Meh. He comes back and we all go in for orientation. lol.

I'm up on the lift and he walks by, scans me. I'll be there for two weeks.

5 to 7am I walk up to the orientation/safety trailer with my gear slung over my shoulder and I ask the dude there outside with the radio for orientation. He's got a mask on. Tells me to put mine on to which I say, not outside. SIX FEET AWAY he says, mask on. Not outside, I repeat. I'm not spitting on you. WHEN YOU'RE SIX FEET AWAY PUT YOUR MASK ON he yells. Why are you getting mad? I ask. I think he mumbled not mad, said something else I can't recall, and stormed off. There's bunch of people there, all masked of course. I'm the only one and Everyone's looking at me. Meh. He comes back and we all go in for orientation. lol. I'm up on the lift and he walks by, scans me. I'll be there for two weeks.

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Nobody wants to be "that guy," who made the decision to lighten up, and have someone cough a couple of times on their watch.

And that's why the position of "safety officer" exists- to be the fall guy and to act as "proof" that the company cares about safety and takes safety measures seriously- they take it so seriously, they hire a guy for $50k per year just to handle safety shit! How could that not be super-safe?

But then when something bad inevitably happens, you have an easy fall guy or an easy solution: if you can't flat out blame the incident on the safety guy, then he gets to justify his job by writing up the incident and making a presentation about what happened, how it could have been avoided- y'know, spend like 60+ hours on finding as many different ways as possible to say "Do not leave tools laying around on the ground".