Do the porters use blowers in your building?

[bleedinbrown58]

I only remember 800's. The shelves stopped 4 or 5 feet from the back leaving a huge area in rear for dump stops. Some of older trucks had narrow shelves that were full length but those were different.

Yup...I know which PC's you're talking about...i used to load one a long time ago..

 

[bottomups]

You load your own package car?

Yep. I'm satellited. Have the BEST preloader in the business.

 

[bleedinbrown58]

Yep. I'm satellited. Have the BEST preloader in the business.

Lol good loaders are hard to find....

 

[HEFFERNAN]

The outside cleaning service uses a blower instead of sweeping zunder conveyors and places they could easily sweep. I have complained to safety, talked with division managers, with my supervisor first, then center manager, then division manager and nobody has a problem with it. who knows what on the floor being flown up into small perfect lung size contaminants so you can easily breathe them deep into your lungs. It's really awesome!!! That's why I could give a crap about the safety committee. When I filed a formal complaint and they checked into it they decided they can use a blower within fifty feet of a employees workstation. We have haz mat guy and clerks and whoever else is in the building. Really a pet peeve of mine and nobody in management and our lousy hourly safety committee could give a damn. I threatened to call OSHA (California) and plant maintenance said go ahead they have the rule it can be used within 50' of a workstation. Of course I argued the fine metal shavings from conveyors to who knows what has spilled and mixes with the dust. Nobody cares but me so finally I said screw it. So good luck and me and you are probably the only 2 that care about this and I don't get why everyone doesn't care. It is a unbelievable way to clean a building. They have these cool tools called brooms and dust mops that I hear work great and don't blow up too much dust but I guess that's too much to ask. Really pisses me off!


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I would bitch to high heaven if I had to breathe in all that disgusting dust.
I could MAYBE see if no one was working but still that's a lot of bad air to be breathing.
In my facility, they do not use that technique. Brush,sweep,mop

 

[just chillin']

our porters stopped using blowers about 10 yrs ago or so. it became a health & safety concern, so it was banned. they now use an industrial vacuum to clean under the boxlines. a bigger problem we had was the weekend parking of all the feeder tractors during the winter. they would jam 20+ tractors in between the boxlines and fire them all up to move them back outside Sunday night as the preload started. exhaust smoke got so thick that you couldn't see the end of the boxline. it would take a few hours until exhaust fans cleaned it out. we got that stopped pretty quick.

 

[bleedinbrown58]

Porters in my building just sweep and mop.....they do use leaf blowers to clean up the yard and parking lots.

 

[oldngray]

Porters in my building just sweep and mop.....they do use leaf blowers to clean up the yard and parking lots.

Porters I have seen mostly just wander around carrying a broom or mop but seldom actually clean anything with them.

 

[Anonymous 11]

To All:

This is a common practice in my area.

What is your opinion as to the practice of cleaning a facility using air blowers?

Sincerely,
I

Sure

 

[Anonymous 11]

No offense.....I despise 800's....whole thing is too narrow and the cargo area's too small...lol

It's how you use it.

 

[Anonymous 11]

Porters I have seen mostly just wander around carrying a broom or mop but seldom actually clean anything with them.

When ever I see a porter I think about them cleaning the stains I've left in the toilet. Makes me chuckle.

 

[PT Car Washer]

When ever I see a porter I think about them cleaning the stains I've left in the toilet. Makes me chuckle.

At $31.40 an hour in the air conditioned latrines.

 

[Anonymous 11]

At $31.40 an hour in the air conditioned latrines.

If that makes them feel better it does me as well.

 

[ManInBrown]

Yep. I'm satellited. Have the BEST preloader in the business.

Ahhhh. I thought maybe you were in a very small center and drivers loaded their own cars. Its interesting to hear how other centers do things.

 

[soberups]

Our building gets swept out by a miniature street sweeper that is about the size of a forklift. We call it the "Zamboni" because it kind of resembles the machine that sweeps the ice on an ice skating rink.

 

[bleedinbrown58]

Our building gets swept out by a miniature street sweeper that is about the size of a forklift. We call it the "Zamboni" because it kind of resembles the machine that sweeps the ice on an ice skating rink.

Yup.....they use the same machine in my building.

 

[cosmo1]

Porters I have seen mostly just wander around carrying a broom or mop but seldom actually clean anything with them.

Hey, I worked pre-load/porter for a year.

Do you have any idea how hard it is to get that slow shuffle with a broom in your hands perfected?

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Porters I have seen mostly just wander around carrying a broom or mop but seldom actually clean anything with them.

Ours do a really good job and have stepped it up since we have added recycling to their duties.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Our building gets swept out by a miniature street sweeper that is about the size of a forklift. We call it the "Zamboni" because it kind of resembles the machine that sweeps the ice on an ice skating rink.

They use one of these in our Albany hub.

 

[scooby0048]

To All:
This is a common practice in my area.
What is your opinion as to the practice of cleaning a facility using air blowers?
Sincerely,
I

I, glad to see you're still kicking around...no porters here just a car washer who sprays everything in the building down with water and out the bay door to the parking lot.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

I, glad to see you're still kicking around...no porters here just a car washer who sprays everything in the building down with water and out the bay door to the parking lot.

You don't have drains w/separators built in to the floor?