We allow our guys to buy gas, ice and water on the company gas card and have that worked out with the local stations (so that the guys don’t buy other things). We provide the coolers and encourage heavy hydration. We encourage full clothes which they do, but a couple guys don’t like to wear hats.. one of the guys even had minor heat stroke type symptoms without a hat and we still have to push him to wear a hat, and I am not sure he does that when I am not around.
All you can do is set company policies on best practices and whenever you find violations on that, make strong corrections. Almost 17 years in the business and everyone is still living that has worked here, so I think the policy is working -----Original Message----- From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jay Weekley Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2015 3:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] heat cutoff for installers I've I'm working with employees I try to schedule 5 minutes in the van with the A/C on drinking water for every 45 in the field and encourage them to do that when working solo. That One Guy /sarcasm wrote: > We are supposed to have a heat index thats pretty high today. when I > was doing commercial roofing I about killed two punks because I pushed > them harder when they started whining, I didnt know it had hit > something like 105 on the thermometer, so this heat index thing was > probably pretty high. > > do you guys have a temp/heat index youll pull your guys back on? I > dont care if they croak, I just dont have time to retrain anybody and > get my project load done this summer. > > -- > If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your > team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
