The Amazon worker: paid £18,000 a year to shift 250 items an hour

Re:The Amazon worker: paid £18,000 a year to shift 250 items... by jotm on Saturday January 20, 2018 @01:21PM (#16194563)

I'm specifically thinking of forklift drivers and factory workers. I've been around them when HSE was auditing, and they were openly mocking them for telling them to wear their goggles. Why?

Can't say anything about other countries, since there's so much shit at home, they need to take care of their own...

But yeah, they also buy the latest shit (on credit), and when asked why, there's no good answer. I use my stuff until it's completely dead, and even then it's fixable. If everyone did it, maybe we'd get rid of planned obsolescence, which is an insane, but sadly profitable concept.

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Re:The Amazon worker: paid £18,000 a year to shift 250 items... by walshemj on Saturday January 20, 2018 @01:54PM (#16194760)

Not sure why wearing goggles when driving a fork lift improves h&s.

The trouble is there tends to be a one size fits all h&s I see track side workers wearing hard hats and the failure modes for accidents tends to be things like runaway trucks not heavy objects falling on your head.

I have also seen all the local bus drivers wearing high vis vests for no reason - I could see having one the bus in case it breaks down and they have to get out and put out hazard signs but when I have seen busses broken down they don't do that.

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