150 Workers Die Each Day From Doing Their Jobs

[Major Nikon]

71. It's not the only thing the employer could do

Not following prescribed procedures can be the employee's fault if it's an isolated incident, but these situations are quite rare when the employer establishes a culture of safety that ingrains these things into their employees. I work in the same environment you are describing as a mid level manager, and I can't imagine an employee of ours so flagrantly disregarding basic safety procedures. I have no idea what it's like where you work. If the attitude of the company is, oh well he was trained and had PPE, but he didn't use them so we fired him, problem solved, they are simply insuring more incidents like these will continue to occur. They should be looking into what the safety culture is like that leads employees to disregard the procedures in the first place. Another question I would have is was the circuit locked out and tagged out as it should have been and was was the control of the key(s) to unlock it?