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my name is G blah and uh I've worked on a a bridge that's called configeration Bridge span that goes between the brunz and Prince rard Island and I've worked there in 96 and 97 and it's a 13 km Bridge has uh 21 approaches and 44 [Applause] [Music] peers it was a bridge building project which is Major infrastructure uh of a value of $1.2 billion so it was considered industrial work for the size of the project Pro itself it wasn't like a regular standard Refinery or paper mail but it still had a lot of electrical equipment Transformers transfer switches through the whole uh Bridge itself they had uh four different weather station on the bridge itself because literally this is the only place in Canada that the speed limit can change from 100 km an hour to 10 km an hour legally in a span of 13 km and legally the speed limit can change 44 times the safety itself uh when you got hired on as a new hire you had a 3 hours orientation which uh they kind of explained some of the hazards because it was a different scope of a job and it also o covered the fall protection through U uh this orientation and they also mentioned that you had to have a flotation suit because this bridge was above a big body of water which if something should have happened that you would stay afloat and be visible for a rescue they're um part of their orientation uh they it was mentioned to all new hires that it was a massive project one of the kind in the world a lot of different hazards in a standard industrial construction site their expectation was to not have any more than 13 fatalities on the [Music] project every morning we started to shift with the bag Dan was called a tailgate meeting so we had to make sure that everybody was able to communicate appropriately to all their supervisors uh you have to understand that the scope of work how the people got to work different spans which were not connected at the time so you had 44 individual peers that had no connection to one another so workers had to be brought in either by helicopter if they were working on the deck or they were brought in by a boat to the pier base and then they would have to climb a ladder up to the the the opening in order to get into the pier to to um go to their task so communication was a major factor so every morning we had to make sure that all radios worked properly I was site superintendent we were 60 people working on the on the project had uh two GFS and six foremen so one Jeff called me in and uh said that one of his foremen had brought his attention that he had um a new worker Apprentice which uh was not listening appropriately to all his directions he was going at locations where he was not supposed to be at there were certain spots on the bridge that was not ready for us to go work at so we had to skip them so um at that time we had a meeting it was sorry it was the end of the day so we set up a meeting for the next day the supervisor itself the GF and myself to discuss what we were going to be doing with this new employee so the next morning when we had our meeting we've discussed what we were going to do and we had decided to put this new worker in the tool crib for approximately 2 weeks where it would give us a chance to go talk to him every day to come come him down to show them and to tell them how the scope of the work is uh operating on an industrial site try to educate him so that he doesn't have to run to every task that he's doing sometimes the Carpenter have to go in front of us to create walkways for us to go between certain span there's a there's a um an expansion joint that's called a drop in Span and that's what connects all the peers together so once that is done the Carpenters have to go in and create walkways for us to go walk from one Pier to the next if they're not done then we cannot go work on those peers we have this is the concern of the foreman is that our new worker was crossing those barriers he was making himself some makeshift uh apparatuses in order to get to the next span where he was not allowed to go work at the time he was uh not complying with all our safety rules at the time he was taking a lot of chances uh he for some odd reason didn't appear to be fully aware of all the hazards that he was putting himself into and by not listening to his foreman and the method of of the way that he chose to do his work was not at the utmost safest [Music] way the same morning that he went back to his regular crew the supervisor uh called in the GF stating the same complaint that he was in a here where he wasn't supposed to be he was caught first thing in the morning going up across uh a span that he was or uh sorry a peer that he was not allowed to go work to so it was brought back to our attention and they came they called me up and we had a second meeting at this meeting it was brought to my attention that this new worker was not complying and he was doing the same things that he were doing before we disciplined him and put him the two weeks in the tool crib but it appeared to have escalated so we had decided that we were going to bring him in and we were going to suspend him for 2 weeks let oay and then when we brought him back in we were going to give him another orientation and we were going to sit down with him and explain again the hazards of this job site and he had to take his time to do his task safely and to always be in communication with a supervisor at that time while we were having the meeting then I got a call that there was a an incident on Pier 38 and it was a potential fatal [Music] incident when I got the call it felt like it wasn't real it you feel like your body's you're you're outside your body then you have to rush there and you have to find out if it's what you think is true is really true so we all jumped in a truck and we drove to Pier uh 39 so we've crossed over when we got there it was apparent that uh he had put a a ladder across this pan where he was not allowed to go work he was working off a 60t scaffolding and he had brought in with him a second 24t ladder to work on underneath the top deck where the footing of the ladder had slipped on the scaffolding where he had plunged down 80 to 90 ft to uh to [Music] concrete the scene itself was frozen then the emergency crew itself went uh down the pier base itself and uh collected the body then brought him out when when they brought him out like it was very it was apparent for us even before the rescue people got there that this kid was not going to survive so at this time we were all on the top deck of the the the pier itself where the the the chopper airlifted him to Mainland and then an abulance took him and we followed the ambulance down to the [Music] hospital while we were waiting for the resue to to be completed I phoned the head office and uh the head office was in Newland so I told the owners that uh we've had a serious high potential of a fatal incident on the bridge and uh that we were going to bring the kid to the hospital so at that moment they asked me if uh I would follow the ambulance to the hospital to find out the result for for sure and at the same time called their parent uh called the worker's parent to to meet us at the hospital I got I was there and approximately 10 minutes after we had got to the hospital the the doctor declared a worker uh deceased so I waited at the hospital till the parents got there and uh like anybody else the parents were in shock and they were very distressed and there was a lot of crying and a lot of high emotions at the hospital [Music] itself when we got back to work o and us had has stopped the work which is absolutely normal procedure we took all the workers and uh we briefed him on what had happened the status of of the the scope of the work and the hazards that were involved in complying with all the safety of the job site itself try to keep all the workers in formed and as to everything that had happened so this way here there was no doubts or or bad feelings as soon as uh after they froze the scene uh They confiscated my journal that was part one they we were interviewed for 6 hours myself the uh GF and the supervisor in question They confiscated my my journal uh the GF journal and the super visors they photocopied the whole Journal completely that was part of their record that they wanted to to have plus uh part of their investigation was everything that had happened to this worker for the last seven days because at that time we were working seven days a week so they wanted to understand what had happened and how did it come about that this worker went to this point the way he did we uh that evening we went to uh the funeral home and when we got there uh the worker's mother came out Meed us at at the the front door and was just screaming at us that we had killed her kid and at that point the the GF looked at me and he says let's get the hell out of here I just cannot take this so we turned around and we didn't go to the service that was it for us at that moment so after the funeral the next day we uh we had a a Safety Stand first of all we had okay we did have a safety standown we just to to to keep everybody in the loop uh information so that uh there was uh trying to put every worker there at ease um give him the scope of how important it was to to always maintain uh safe work ethics and uh it was more like a debriefing session than anything else trying to appease everybody that was there and in order to make him realize that they need to work safely in order to go home at [Music] night not on this uh it was not part of uh any insurance group that we had or any part of the project uh specialty nobody no that was not offered to [Music] us every three days I had to meet with the owners and uh I had to tell him what I was going to be doing for the next 3 days and every morning when I went up to work there was a radio station that was uh broadcasting the weather forecast so not by being smart I would just always copy down what they were saying and unless the conditions of the weather itself changed that day I wouldn't adjust my notes to that I would just leave it to whatever uh they had set on the radio that that day so 3 days later when I get to the meeting and and I have to explain why something wasn't done that I told them that I would do the an the the question was always why have you not got this done so then I would be able to pull my journal and say well uh it was raining with uh excessive Winds of over 100 km an hour we had to take the people off the top deck so those tasks were not uh if we were not able to complete those task so I was able to justify why uh not knowing that it was going to become a focal point in my journal when we got to court I would always write everything that happened every conversation that I had that pertained to the job whether it was material delivery if it was returning material if it was um anything that was safety issue on the job site itself I would log it in uh the foremans I would write uh the spots on location of the project where every supervisors had their Crews every day so this way here I could track where people were working all the time after the funeral to stand down and we kept working for approximately 2 months when the RCMP showed up at the main gate then I had a summons that we had to appear in court and also my journal was summoned also I had to bring my journal in with me so once we went into at into court for the the prim hearing the judge ordered me and the journal in his chamber then he grabbed my journal and he's trying to locate if I am telling the truth or not so he turns around and that was the only Landmark that was on my journal that was consistent every day so he phoned in the the weather bureau and said uh this radio station ckcw says every morning I want you to verify for me please if this day what does it say so he picked in the vicinity of 20 to 25 days di randomly through my journal and after everything was said I had kept an accurate weather point on my journal so the judge agreed that he would consider that my journal was to be true we had also I had also logged the meetings that I had had with the GF and the foreman about the working question and the content of why we were having this meeting so the judge took that uh I was telling the truth he also had interviews with uh with all six supervisors and ask a bunch of question of stuff that I had written into the journal itself he did verify like a lot of points to see if I was writing the truth into the journal because he was he had to make a decision whether I had written the truth or not so there was a lot of points that was uh the interviews with the with the work with sorry with the supervisors as where they were work in certain days and whatever the the superviser had written in their own journals did match what I was writing in mine so the judge did look for a lot of points on the journal itself to make sure that it was that I was writing the truth [Music] it's the scariest thing you can ever go through in life when one man will decide your fate whether he's going to accept that you've honestly didn't do anything wrong or he doesn't accept it and gives you a punishment for it 3 days of the Court 3 days in a row I didn't though don't ever ever take a shortcut when it comes to safety you never know when it has the potential of biting you keep your Journal always true it can become your very best friend again don't ever ever take shortcuts when it comes to [Music] safety if you have an atrisk Behavior employer employee keep an extreme close eye on this individual until you can regulate the problem if the individual needs to be removed from his environment then remove them as much as possible go back to the field observe your worker make sure that he is working safely a supervisor intervening with their worker always be aware of the workers that you have and how they're working you have to intervene you have to keep your workers safe you have to make sure they understand that they need to work safely well back then we uh we didn't have like extended um some companies call them FL some call some company calls them a hard card where a worker stops and really uh identify the hazards of his work task at location where he's at uh it was not done at the time it was more like a tailgate uh meeting that was in the morning and literally it was guys sitting on the tailgate of their truck discussing the scope of their work whereas today the workers stops and go through an flr or hard card or start card that that would identified even to this young worker the hazards that he was exposing himself to other equipment that we have is a better training program whereas we did not have training program supervisor training did not exist we did not have this it was Word of Mouth from different people that knew you and said this guy will be a foreman this guy will be a supervisor this guy will be a g a general Foreman this guy will be a superintendent equipment itself we have better equipment today than we had at the time of that job itself where we are being trained to use the equipment we have fall protection training programs now whereas it was part of the orientation and it was a light blurb at orientation when they were talking about full protection whereas today we have like full training programs for there's the supervisor's training where again we did not have that at the at the time anything that's important through the day log some notes because your memory will not serve you that well in a year or let's say 6 months in time if you need to track a certain worker uh if you only put a couple of notes it might make sense to you that day but make clear notes so this way here in 6 months time you can still go back to it and absolutely read either certain behaviors or certain aspect of why you were writing to notes you will understand them again at today's standard now that we have on top of everything else we have Bill c45 that holds everybody accountable from the supervisor up to the company owners it is even more important today to protect yourself with a good journal and also every time you go in the field make sure that your your workers are competent and that they are working safely the primary role of a supervisor today he is their biggest Mentor they will follow by example so if he complies himself to all the rules and regulations and the safety aspect they will also follow the safety rules it is important for him to show leadership by following them himself so therefore one of his worker cannot say well you're not following these rules why should I we did try to keep the highest end of safety that we possibly could under the scope of work that we had the safety itself was set at the time to be over excellent because you have to understand they had budet for 13 death and they finished a project with only three deaths I was there for the opening of The Bridge huge C ceremonies um massive speech of how well the project had gone the safety record that they were able to pull out and um major major ceremonies like millions of dollars worth of fanciness to create a celebration they did not landed home for me I still had one death which was with too much the supervisor the more involved they are with their workers the much better result the that for is going to get out of his workers the workers are happy they are more productive they feel better about themselves absolutely supervisor he's the one initially responsible for them the co-workers himself they can definitely help their co-workers along um they did have mentoring program but that is not a specific group pep talks and a good tap on the shoulder belongs to everybody not just the forat please listen to your supervisors listen and follow the rules you will go home safely every night if you do so pay a lot of attention to your new worker until you're comfortable that he's doing 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