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<blockquote data-quote="JRSherman" data-source="post: 1394699" data-attributes="member: 13432"><p>+thousands. When I was in the Navy, you had two choices. Do it the right way, or get it done.</p><p></p><p>This sounds like they're one and the same, but they are polar opposites. If you choose to do a small job like replacing an outlet the right way, you will spend approximately 20 hours before you even get to the job. Things like creating a work authorization form; researching all the possible electrical systems intertwined with the outlet string; informing all the divisions that may or may not be present that day you're going to take down a circuit; preparing a tag-out; getting it all first checked, second checked, officer checked, officer of the deck/engineering duty officer approved; tagging it out; verifying it dead with an electrical safety/work area; replacing it; removing the tag-out(after being authorized by the proper officer to do so); verifying it works; and finally, clearing all the paperwork as complete, with all the computer tracking done as well.</p><p></p><p>Or you could just wait until midnight, take it out, put the new one in, and you're done. Otherwise known as "Midnight Maintenance". </p><p></p><p>I am not an advocate of working hot, in fact I utterly despise it. Sometimes though, you just gotta do what's going to make your day not make you get off work the next morning. These guys understood that the way they were doing it had the potential to cause them harm, yet they did it intentionally to save company time.</p><p></p><p>If I had the cohones these guys have, and did this job, I would find myself more freaked out by the process of unhooking left, climb one step, rehooking left, unhooking right, climb one step, rehooking right than I would just going 10 or 15 steps or as I saw fit, and take a break. </p><p></p><p>OSHA to me should be a post job assessment, not a pre-job worry. The crap they will and won't take care of is retarded.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JRSherman, post: 1394699, member: 13432"] +thousands. When I was in the Navy, you had two choices. Do it the right way, or get it done. This sounds like they're one and the same, but they are polar opposites. If you choose to do a small job like replacing an outlet the right way, you will spend approximately 20 hours before you even get to the job. Things like creating a work authorization form; researching all the possible electrical systems intertwined with the outlet string; informing all the divisions that may or may not be present that day you're going to take down a circuit; preparing a tag-out; getting it all first checked, second checked, officer checked, officer of the deck/engineering duty officer approved; tagging it out; verifying it dead with an electrical safety/work area; replacing it; removing the tag-out(after being authorized by the proper officer to do so); verifying it works; and finally, clearing all the paperwork as complete, with all the computer tracking done as well. Or you could just wait until midnight, take it out, put the new one in, and you're done. Otherwise known as "Midnight Maintenance". I am not an advocate of working hot, in fact I utterly despise it. Sometimes though, you just gotta do what's going to make your day not make you get off work the next morning. These guys understood that the way they were doing it had the potential to cause them harm, yet they did it intentionally to save company time. If I had the cohones these guys have, and did this job, I would find myself more freaked out by the process of unhooking left, climb one step, rehooking left, unhooking right, climb one step, rehooking right than I would just going 10 or 15 steps or as I saw fit, and take a break. OSHA to me should be a post job assessment, not a pre-job worry. The crap they will and won't take care of is retarded. [/QUOTE]
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