Of course we fail the keter audit. What do we expect when we do things by the book only a couple days a year when keter is in the buildings. If ups is serious about safety then they should practice it all day everyday! Ths way it would be done with little or no effort when keter shows up but that does not make business sense now does it. Like scratch said i would love to see keter show up without a days notice and see how we operate every day when they are not on property. Lets not forget who owns keter.
Right now we have a huge safety problem, in order to get gas we have to back into the gas pumps to fill up everyday. Now we are talking about 400 plus routes going out everyday. Our gas pumps are being blocked by personal cars because of the overflow of extra hires so ups are having employees park within the gates in front of the pumps. I have addressed this issue with the district safety manager, building manager and feeder manager and i was told its peak! This week we have a group of drivers that are refusing to back in to get gas and we will run out of gas on route unless they give us gas cards! Its funny this company preaches safety, how would they like to go to some families house and explain to them that their father died when he backed into a gas pump. If corporate is reading this im talking about the palatine building in north ill. Time for you to step up and show us your serious about safety! If not i will be calling whoever i can osha etc on this issue!
I noticed alot of people tonight walking in the yard paying close attention to the gas pumps. It was a little better but i still saw drivers 3 pt turning to get into the pumps, which is still unsafe. Corporate why dont you look at the proposal which was put out by our safety committee in order to provide us with a safe pathway to the pumps, which was turned down by the region because it cost money!
We have plenty of property that is grassed that we could black top to provide parking for the tractors, trailers and even the peak over flow of cars. You should have seen this coming when you closed the crystal lake barn and transferred all of those routes from the waukegan building here.
I have a great idea leave a double row of tractor spots open, paint a yellow rectangle from the first row through the third row 2 wide so that we can drive straight through to make a left into the pumps with no obstacles to manuever around, this shouldnt have a major cost to it. But if it does i will flip for the paint if it ensures that i wont be attending a fellow drivers funeral.
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and to keep osha away!!!!!!
