Inside the News - Edition #531

Allan Leibowitz -
Inside the News
- 15 Sep 2011 ( #531 )
1 min read
In Australia, two forklift operators were fined and fired for planking, the silly act of balancing precariously in dangerous places and then posting evidence in the social media. As if workplaces aren't fraught with enough dangers, people feel the need to apply their schoolboy antics. It's amazing that while the industry spends millions of dollars on safety research, organisations devote their resources to safety education and employers are forced to hire safety trainers, at the end of the day, it all comes down to the fools on the factory floor.

We applaud the tough response to this incident and hope that forklift drivers will now think before jeopardising their employers' safety record.
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