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Someone at least hold his dam belt
That's true, the buckle could cause extra damage to whoever he hits on the ground, best take it off.
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Belt: +0 Swag x2 Damage
"Wearable item."
Ukranian president is such a grave guy.
that canât be legal
I live in America, and I would have to be harnessed to work anywhere near that ledge. Or I'd be fired immediately.
I used to work for dish Network, we were required to be harnessed in any time we got on a roof but you can bet your ass we never did...
Management didn't want us to do it because that meant putting lag screws and a mount plate on a customer's roof as a safety precaution.
No customer will agree to that, and so management often forced all employees to do the work without a harness to ensure that they get paid for the installation and the new contract is created.
But that same management Will write you up for policy violation If they happen to walk onto your job site and see you on a roof without a harness even if they're the ones who told you not do put it on.
Speaking from experience, some companies are just garbage and do not care about their employees.
Iâm dealing with this now In the telecom industry.
I do industrial telecom. Most of the time, big jobsites will have dedicated safety guys. On smaller job sites, if we dont feel safe, we shut that shit down, while we figure out how to feel safe. We dont live for work, theres no reason to go to work if you're not going home at the end of the day.
Report to OSHA
You should ask for clarification in emails or text messages.
In physician residency in the US we have â80 hour per week limitsâ on how long we can work. I put it in quotes because most surgical residents just lie and say they worked 80 hours when in reality they worked 90-100+. If you put the true hours you get called in to your admin office (the one in charge of your assignments) and told youâll put the program in danger of being shut down.
Who doesn't want a doctor or surgeon working on you that's working his 80th hour that week....
Sounds like the program should be shut down then lol. They're putting patients in danger.
Oh my goodness. Here in Brazil in physician residency you gotta work 60h per week and I think thatâs abusive already. That means five 12hour shifts straight, which IMO shouldnât be allowed. Sometimes I flirt with the idea of moving to the US to finish my studies there but then I quickly remember that I would go crazy if I did that
And drs just have to do that during training, nurses work short staffed in terribly unsafe situations⌠all of health needs a huge overhaul
Stuff like this infuriates me so much. Like how truck drivers are expected to just falsify their logs to stay within hour and rest limitations. This country needs more enforcement and higher penalties for employers that deliberately sidestep this shit.
Like your supervisor will write you up for not having a harness on. But they know you don't have the time or permission to do it. You know it. They know it. The government knows it. And who gets thrown under the bus when something goes wrong? You do.
You only get a few days allowance per month to use paper logs which are possible to falsify.
Most trucks now are using elogs which connect to the ecm, which cannot be falsified. Even if you had a paper log the digital record still exists.
I would have agreed with your statement like 2 years ago but at this point it just isn't happening. No company will take the risk considering how relatively cheap the elogs are.
This is the current bane of the industry. 11hr max and you stop. NOW! No it doesn't matter you're 20min away. Get off at the next place you can, shut down and rest.
When the government doesn't enforce the rules they make, firms have to compete with other firms who have lower costs by not following the rules. It only works if the rules are applied equally to everyone.
It's sounds like OSHA vs the customer. Customers don't want safety points mounted on their roof, OSHA tells employers they're required because some people fall and die/cripple themselves. Customer and employer can't tell OSHA to fuck off. Employees are in the crossfire.
Here's how you fix that:
"OK, can I get that in writing with a signature, please?"
"No"
I know going through The Process is never easy, and keeping a job is important, but that feels something that could very easily be reported on.
It's ok, that branch was shut down due to poor management.
I consistently hear bad things about working for Dish, but this is another level.
So just curious, but instead of anchoring to the roof, why not just have the rope go over the roof and anchor to the ground?
I suppose that would only really help if you fell on the one side of the roof, but if you're only working on that one side anyway, seems like a faster/simpler way, if not quite as bulletproof.
Call OSHA every time they asked you to go on the roof.
Most companies, actually. Bordering on all companies.
Same thing in Europe by law. Employer could be fined seriously for neglecting health and safety regulations.
I live in Turkey and that is nothing for construction workers here. They are like those those people in roof runner videos jumping and climbing on the edge of buildings without any safety precautions.
Youâd have to be harnessed, youâd have steel-toed shoes, safety glasses, and likely a second set of hands for a two-person lift.
All depends on the general contractor really. That being said, tying off here would be so freaking easy.
Harness, fall protection, safety toe footwear, material retainer, catch net(maybe optional depending on site).
Yeah I'm surprised no else is mentioning the fact that the glass could fall and kill people below. I'd definitely want a net for that
Yeah thereâs lots of wild things that go on at construction sites that are not in the US. Just yesterday I saw some guy with a wheel grinder cutting concrete with no eye protection on. He did have a hard hat for some reason though. I donât think most countries have laws many laws to protect workers on construction sites.
Plot twist: Itâs reversed, they are stealing the glassâŚ
Thatâs illegal
Judging by their clothes alone I don't think they are union... or even employed.
It's weird even if we're assuming it's some place with no work uniform/special work clothes that's still the last clothing I'd ever choose to do work like this.
Maybe this is the owner of the place or some other non worker dude installing one panel to flex on video ?
Iâve met this guy before. His name is Lowest Bidder.
Agreed. It's like seeing someone hiking or golfing in jeans - you had an entire wardrobe to choose from knowing what activity you're doing and that's what you went with?
Theyâre definitely Union. Soviet, but still Union
Well, no osha, no law. So perfectly legal in many countries.
It isnât in America. OSHA handbooks would explode otherwise. Also the contractors are not dressed in the typical âAmerican contractorâ fashion. They look like they might be Eastern Europeans living in the UK maybe?
This wouldnât happen in the uk. Theyâd be wearing hi vis vests and non slip shoes. Size of that building suggests itâs a big site, in the uk that would have a dedicated safety inspector on site. Simon is a dick about using the walkways next to an empty road even if they take you out past your destination, but Iâm glad heâs there pointing at anyone not wearing a hat because he also tears people a new asshole for half arsing a scaffold. Still, fuck Simon.
I was merely proposing a hypothesis of a location based on the cost of the materials seen there. That is some expensive material. I am not 100% how things work in the UK, because I would imagine that the regulations can be just as strict as the US, but there have been projects in the UK that became world famous for cutting corners.
Maybe it is somewhere in central or Eastern Europe, but I doubt that unless it is in a major and wealthy city, like Prague maybe.
Seems like a real pane
I had to watch this several times as I couldn't believe anyone would do this. Not only going near that edge without any tether, but carrying something that is being placed OVER THE EDGE.
If you start to lose your grip you naturally lean forward trying to get it under control again = FALL. You try to place it in the holding but it misses, you expect it to hit the bottom and adjust your weight leaning slightly forward = FALL. You have to stand right on the very edge to put it in straight, you are not looking where your feet are = FALL!
Terrifying to even watch - and that's why I come here!
Yeah and then there's the sudden gust of wind that catches the pane and pulls him off like a kite
Had a guy on a job site once get lifted up on a lull to about 30-40 feet at a beach house on a windy day. He was holding a piece of plywood and it acted like a kite and pulled him straight off the roof. He is paralyzed now and barley survived, job was shut down for 2 months. I wonât even climb 15 feet up a ladder on a crazy windy day like that. Iâve had builders get mad at me for refusing to do a task and got called a pussy even though when setting up the ladder it would get blown down by the wind. Canât make money if youâre dead, itâs not worth risking your life for an hourly wage.
I remember my co worker putting glass in an air tower at a military base on a zoom boom 60 feet up on a windy day, I refused to do it and got shit for it. Meanwhile my co worker old ass boomer gave me the whole back in my day speech and did it and nearly shit himself.
Your life isnât worth x amount of dollars per hour.
So...you'd do it for a salary?
weeeee
Whereâs Miguel?
points to the sky
he now has the ability to fly for the rest of his life
r/angryupvote
That was exactly my thought, like I can't believe he's stepping up that close to the edge with no tether while he's holding what's essentially a big glass sail that could just take him over the edge with a gust of wind
= FALL.
Not to mention how he practically jogs up to the ledge. The ledge with not one, but two clear trip hazards before it.
Yeah! I didnât even see those. Just the right height to be underestimated when not looking.
Well yeah he's got to move quick, that glass is super heavy!
Not only that, he seems to step over a rail and then up a step right next to the edge.
Mental.
Yep, 2 trip hazards within a meter or so of the edge. That's a great way to die
Oh Christ. I didnât even see that.
Not to mention if you drop it= guillotine
Don't worry, someone said, "be careful" right before the video starts, so he's safe.
literally if he lost his balance an tipped forward, it is impossible to recover. even if he dropped it, it's too late to fall back in.
Exactly. He is completely unstable holding that heavy thing. Any slight nudge and there is literally no way to correct it and get momentum backwards again.
Everytime I read FALL I got this weird feeling like when you slip but catch yourself and there's this unpleasant electric shiver in your hands and feet. You know what I mean?
Like when youâre just falling asleep and slip off the sidewalk or something? Yeah, I hate that.
My hands are sweating just reading this
So is his, making the glass slippery.
How to do this actually? Long tether to a wall?
Yea, and some form of assurance that there isn't going to be anyone below where they are working as he can easily drop one of the hundreds of glass panes and kill someone
I would think you'd safety tether the glass.
Anything when you work at that height gets tethered.
Yes
Why isn't he tied to something???
someone is holding his family hostage. It's the only explanation.
Or his passport home
Welcome to Dubai
Yeah, safety harness is such a fuckin absurd thing to have SMH
Or his spouse ate the part of his birthday cake with his name on it, and now he just wants to die because of the treacherous spouse doing the unforgivable
Developing country is why.
No hard hat, inappropriate footwear, no harness, no hi-vis, no gloves, no secondary restraint on the object being moved to ledge, improper lifting technique... what did I miss?
Catch net or temp wall to prevent those panes from plummeting into the void.
Trip hazards
Oh, calm down everyone. This jobsite clearly has a spotter, so if anything goes wrong they can get a replacement working right away.
You! 27th floor ASAP!
Zelensky is a carpenter
Every sheet of glass would slip through my hands
Only until you fell to your death. Then whatever sheets of glass remained would slip through your doomed coworkers hands.
I think if you dropping off of them the Zone Manager will just push you off
That's why they went with the guy on the video instead. Sorry mate
Definitely a bad time to have sweaty palms
He could easily have tripped over something and sent himself hurtling down.
Wait, do you mean the first step, the second one he skipped, the third one he stepped onto, or the bag he stepped around?
Nah lol no way
This and that other study posted on reddit this week about 70% of people more likely to fall while carrying things definitely make my palms sweaty.
Zelensky got the balls of steel here
Finally
Was looking for this comment
He needs a nice hotel atrium, not a ride
While mine just experienced volts of vertigo.
bro what the fuck
OMG I hate this!
Aaaaah, NOOOO!
WHY?! Just, WHY???
Because real men are so mentally and physically superior that no accident can ever happen to them. They know all and see all. So why waste time and effort to put some useless safety gear on?
Or they're working in a place like the UAE, notorious for essentially enslaving migrant workers in hazardous working conditions. But who knows.
r/OSHA
How long until someone leans on that a little too much and falls to their death? It's practically guaranteed to happen.
I would give you $5 if you could break that panel by leaning on it.
You severely underestimate the strength of tempered glass, as long as its not hit on the edge or corners.
Looks like the top and sides are all exposed, unless they have more railing to install that would cover it, which I wouldn't doubt because they are still installing it after all.
There's been several reported and recorded cases of glass structures breaking. Just seems unnecessary given how many people will likely be there. I won't be there though, so I'll just wait for the social media campaign where everybody changes their profile pic.
The glass is laminated and toughend, looks like 2 bits of 6mm. It should take a fair bit of abuse to break it.
$5
Look at mr moneybags over here
Pretty sure that leaning on those panels is a death sentence
The railing itself would give me sweaty palms. I lean on it too hard or trip and fall into it I'm hurtling down
Anybody else think to themselves "dude that looks like zelensky"?
I guess once you've done it on the first floor it's just turtles all the way up đ¤ˇââď¸ still it seems like a pane
Carrying heavy tempered glass causing partially obstructed view, step over object going to the ledge, step UP to the ledge and lean weight back while leaning forward OVER THE LEDGE to seat tempered glass into place all while not being harnessed.
WHERE THE FUCK IS THIS?
I didn't realise Zelenskyy installed glass in his spare time.
No harness or travel restraint, while holding a giant glass sail. Old or bold, he made his choice.
Itâs always some Slavic dude with a smoke getting shit done.. BYLLATT
SPLLATT
this is exactly my two fears combined. Heights and large panes of glass (especially non tempered).
dude looks like Zelensky
That guy looks like the Ukrainian president
There are so many things that could go wrong here. I hate it.
Dude hasn't caught up on the idea that he's replacable and he's risking his life for a company that couldn't give two shits.
Do you want world cup? Cause this is how you get world cup
Fuck that for a game of soldiers!
Oh hell naw
That's a no from me dawg
It's the smile from the guy not doing it that's getting me the most.
No harness? Mark this shit NSFW.
I wouldn't even do this even if the installation is only a foot above the ground.
Imma guess this guy dies before hes 40
A slight breeze and you found the express elevator straight to the bottom floor.
Other than a safety harness he should also use suction cup handle things no? Seems like a huge risk dropping that.
Duuuust in the wind....a little breeze and good bye
Just wear the damn harness and attach a rope. No more sweaty palms, 0 risk of fatal accident. Shesh.
Yeah this is 100% how people die very easily. Fucking idiots.
While carrying a 60lbs sheet of glass towards a 100ft drop this unharnassed man had to step over:
An edge covered in exposed rebarbs
A big piece of trash
And a second edge right next to the ledge.
As someone who glazed for 10 years..
Where the fuck is the harnesses ?
In Holland i am attached to kabels, tools ar on a wire. Helmet on. Safety cones and tape to set the surroundings ect. And 2 more supervisors.
Come up way too hot
Safety procedures who? No harness no tether on the glass no pulley system to put it in place not even two people lifting together just one dude with a death wish
Didnt realize Zelensky is doing construction during the war
Wow no steeltoe shoes, no gloves or suction handles, holding it alone, no harness nothing, shouldve deserved to have fallen down imo, stupid stupid
That doesnât look osha approved, and able to hold 200lbs
Nice tie off
Is that zalenski rebuilding Ukrainianđđ
Wow these guys donât have harnesses on them
Where's your harnass and life line bro
Is that you Zelensky?
A look into the future as President Zelensky helps rebuild Ukraine after the Russian retreat.
You know what? I think OSHA construction regulations arenât that bad anymore.
Risk vs reward. Canât pay me enough to just install glass on a high rise without fall protection.
Yeah you need a cable or point to harness to here in the u.s. That dude right there sneezes or leans too far forward and he gone
Glass rail? Get the fuck out. I hate humans.
We really do make great decisions in the name of "looking cool"
I'm terrified of hieghts and these videos literally make my legs wobble
Hmm how many die building stadiums (Dubai, Qatar, etc), no wonder
No thanks
Fuck that
Ahhh I did not like that lol
Man that zelensky is a multitasker
Terrifying. I couldn't do that job.
Dear OSHA,
A trip hazard right near a nonexistent railing Smart
He could fall or he could drop that glass panel on someone below. Thatâs a lot of risk and liability.
What no fall protection??
Cutting costs with foreign workers in Dubai
Zelensky downgraded
u/gifreversingbot
OSHA approved work wear đ¤Ł
Itâs nice of president zelensky to install glass windows but Ukraine is at war
Vladimir zelenski?
This gave me trauma.
HELL NAHH Iâd drop that
So that's what Zalinsky is doing with our billions of tax payers money's. And he is installing it his self.
Here's the rest of the video: he dropped the glass đĽ˛:no cap
They make tools for specifically that type of job and none of them are being used!
*OSHA has entered the chat
My clumsy Îąss would drop my self and the glass off the ledge.
My heart rate jumped to 1000 because I thought I was on the âtherewasanattemptâ subâŚ
Thank god there is no liveleak in the corner of the screen
You couldnât pay me all the money in the world to do that
I have anxiety from watching this lol
My ass is puckering just watching this. Iâm in construction and all I can see is a gust of wind, a slight loss of balance, cramp, anything really could take this situation and turn it into a tragedy instantly. There is a reason safety protocols were created. Whether theyâre required or not I donât understand why anyone would take these chances. No amount of money is worth dying and/or leaving your family with a loss to grieve.
Accidentally drops it, and boom, final destination irl.
hell no, to the no no, NO
I was a glazier for 5 years and this kinda unsafe shit is normal you have no idea the situations ive had to be in cause my old scumbag boss was a cocksucker. it was fucked
Holy fucking shit, OSHAs wet dream right here
For the very first time in my life, I looked away from the screen without thinking. Absolutely NOT
respect for the guy
i think i would accidentally slip or do something really stupid, like drop the glass and jump off to grab it.