As the owner I always very clearly tell my employees that safety is in their hands. If they deem a task as unsafe then that's an unsafe task for them in my book no questions asked. I'm never going to push someone to do something they don't think is safe, that's just asking for other problem (like injury, death etc.) I once had a guy completely lock up and unable to move on a 100' commercial tower. He now is mainly ground support at the tower sites and the other guys who enjoy climbing go up instead. I'd rather have him on the ground and helping than on a 100' tower needing to be rescued (or worse).
Now for your particular problem it sounds like maybe you have hired the wrong guy for the job if other co-workers are able to complete those jobs. The tower may or may not be "unsafe" but it doesn't matter, the towers are "unsafe" for this employee. I would go to a few of his failed jobs and climb the tower myself and see first hand what he's looking at. Ask him what he thinks makes it unsafe and inspect those items. He might be correct that it's unsafe and your other employees are being risky. Or he might just not be the right guy for the job. -Sean On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 2:07 PM Ben Royer <[email protected]> wrote: > Who has their employees climb residential towers? Like the Rohn 25 > variety that Ma’ and Pa’ use to get the games on. That type. And do you > formally train them? We do on both accounts, but interested to poll the > community on this one. I have one employee right now that said he’s not > afraid of heights but has an alarming number of Unsuccessful jobs because > of ‘unsafe tower’s’. We have since had a talk with him as a couple of > those jobs have been successfully done by another employee. Anyway, what > say you.... > > Thank you, > Ben Royer, Operations Manager > Royell Communications, Inc. > 217-965-3699 www.royell.net >
