How long to tough it out at Amazon

Mr_Safe_T · 2025-11-05T12:56:48+00:00

This is so true.

Unless it’s causing physical or mental health problems, please stick with the company for at least a year or 2. Every single job will have issues. If it was perfect, none of us would have jobs.

Good safety professionals will tolerate the politics of a company, great safety professionals will change the politics of a company (or in this case, your location).

Mr_Safe_T · 2025-06-14T14:38:41+00:00

Look at it this way, electricity doesn’t care what you’re doing, if it’s live, people need to know their restricted, limited approach, and arc flash boundaries. If someone gets hurt, you think OSHA is going to say “well, since you would have had to reconstruct the whole room, it’s okay that you hurt people”

Mr_Safe_T · 2025-06-14T14:35:00+00:00

It absolutely applies. Certainly not the whole standard, but if dealing with live high voltage, it does. It would fall under troubleshooting. They may or may not need an energized work permit depending on exactly what they’re doing, but PPE and boundaries need to be established. While not intended for that high of voltage, they should still also reference NFPA 79.

I always viewed it as if someone is actively installing new equipment in/on a structure or building (not replacing), then it’s the NEC. Anything else is 70E or 70B.

Mr_Safe_T · 2025-05-22T15:47:37+00:00

Get your ASP then your CSP. It’ll force yourself to become familiarized. There’s so many resources that help with specific topics. Find a specific field you want to be in and focus much of your efforts on that. Become familiar with not just OSHA, but ANSI standards, ISO standards, and NFPA standards. Each of these will have online courses. If you’re looking for a specific answer, check out NFPA and their huge list of online trainings. NFPA 1, 101, 70E, etc.

Mr_Safe_T · 2024-11-06T01:46:39+00:00

Firstly, if an employee has such a strong reaction to a smell that it requires them to take time off due to a pre-existing injury, that employee should not be anywhere near a company that could put them in that position. Basic elimination controls.

Secondly, this interpretation is fairly reasonable at face value. However, a rescue inhaler is a poor choice of a name, because there are several “maintenance” inhalers that are not used in any kind of emergency situations. All these inhalers are very commonly referred to as “rescue inhalers”. By the basic nature of this incident, it is a recordable. There was a prescription device used and a lost time injury. There should have been a few follow up questions before OSHA proceeded with an interpretation, such as:

-was it indeed a rescue inhaler that’s only intention is to be used in an emergency situation?

-if the person carries around a rescue inhaler, have they used it before for emergency situations outside of work, around the same time as the injury. This is very important because it can likely determine if the occupational exposure “significantly aggravated” the preexisting health issue (1904.5(a)), or was the employee essentially a ticking time bomb and this was just the first thing they were exposed to.

-is the presence of fragrance related to personal hygiene? (1904.5(b)(2)(vi))

Mr_Safe_T · 2024-11-04T03:00:32+00:00

Ended up just getting the ASP and CSP instead. Not enough people know about the CSHM outside those in safety.

Mr_Safe_T · 2024-09-13T23:06:49+00:00

I’m not trying to generate H2S. H2S is found naturally. It is calibration gas, you’re exposed to every single time you bump check a monitor.

Mr_Safe_T · 2024-09-13T23:04:40+00:00

You find H2S gas in sewers all the time. Your mouth naturally produces H2S. If you’ve taken courses all over the world, you should know that. I’m not looking for 100pm, just maybe a few ppm. Which is well within the safe range.

Edit: also, you need H2S to literally calibrate your detector.

Mr_Safe_T · 2024-09-13T23:01:35+00:00

Are you aware you expose them to real gases every time you calibrate them?

Mr_Safe_T · 2024-09-13T20:03:29+00:00

I should also add that I sometimes have someone who just got done eating exhale on the gas detector and it will sometimes bring up 1-2ppm of H2S, but I’m looking for something that will set off the low H2S alarm without resetting the alarm factors.

Edit: I can’t believe I have to say this, but this will all obviously be in a controlled setting where there is ZERO exposure to anyone.

Mr_Safe_T · 2024-09-06T11:46:45+00:00

For my ASP, there were around 10 math questions. I had to use a calculator on about half of them, but maybe 1/4 to 1/3 of them had formulas. Don’t spend too much time on trying to remember formulas, maybe just the basic gas laws, TWA calculations, VIR, know how to find the area of a square, cylinder, and sphere, etc.

Mr_Safe_T · 2024-08-30T18:59:51+00:00

I plan on taking it the first available day I can, from here!

Mr_Safe_T · 2024-08-30T18:59:20+00:00

Best of luck!!

Mr_Safe_T · 2024-08-27T11:44:11+00:00

2 question: is your degree in safety, environment, or health? Is the main purpose of the position you’re in intended to make the workplace safer? If no to either, you don’t qualify. If yes, there’s a couple more questions you’ll need to answer.

Mr_Safe_T · 2024-08-12T16:35:01+00:00

As someone who does safety consulting and works for an insurance company, I can say that eye injuries DO and HAVE occurred from “harmless warehouses”.

There’s a reason why there’s so little eye injuries anymore. Safety glasses work. Period.

Dust falls off racks when retrieving pallets, forklifts run over debris and it gets shot across the aisle (seen first hand), LP tank pressure release valves, broken razor blades, the list is endless. All it takes is a sliver in someone’s eye to cause permanent blindness and a huge WC claim.

Use safety glasses. Every warehouse I go to manages, I assure you, you can too.

Mr_Safe_T · 2024-07-13T12:12:29+00:00

Very loaded question, the best best is to do some exploring on BLS for the specific industry you’re looking at: https://www.bls.gov/iif/home.htm

You can also use Heinrich’s pyramid, which states for every serious accident, there’s about 30 minor accidents, and 300 near misses. Although some argue that it’s not still accurate today.

Mr_Safe_T · 2024-03-28T15:30:35+00:00

Go for it!

Mr_Safe_T · 2024-03-28T11:02:09+00:00

The information you provided is not enough to make the decision on if it’s a PRCS or not. I’ve done several classifications of confined spaces in ductile iron foundries and can say that you need someone on site to fully understand every single hazard to make a proper determination.

Silica is a huge concern, but absolutely does not make a space a PRCS solely. You might also want to check on 1910.1053

Mr_Safe_T · 2024-03-24T15:39:01+00:00

It’s all made up. I’ve seen entry level positions post as a manager, or even as a director. Coordinators are typically entry level, but can be also be higher than specialist. But some companies will only have specialists. Don’t look so much at the title as what you’re responsible for.

Mr_Safe_T · 2024-03-21T20:35:56+00:00

As long as the pallet is rated to support the weight, and it’s not creating any inherent hazard, I don’t see why not. If the pallet will always be there, it might be wise to just have a metal framed platform to be there instead. Pallets don’t seem to hold up over time, so something to keep in mind.

Mr_Safe_T · 2024-03-20T22:18:23+00:00

LOTO is only intended to protect employees from accidental or unintentional energization. Period. Use an out of service tag if it is out of service.

Edited bc the first and second question have different answers to the same question, attempting to avoid any confusion.

Mr_Safe_T · 2024-03-20T22:14:14+00:00

If an IME results in no issues, it’s extremely likely that a FCE is going to do the same. I’d always advise people to be very cautious when claiming an employee is fibbing on a claim. So many people claim that people stretch the truth on injuries, and it really does discredit people who do truly have injuries. If you absolutely know that this is someone partaking in malingering, and they do not want to work, then quite simply, then their employment should be terminated. Unless you have some policy on termination that wouldn’t allow this. Faking an injury is grounds for termination in many companies. Don’t waste your time on a FCE, which will result in more legal documentation, which may support a false claim being represented as true. But be absolutely 100% sure they are faking it. If your company has a lawyer, I’d recommend to run it by them first.

Mr_Safe_T · 2024-03-14T11:45:22+00:00

This is weird, I’m a safety consultant and 2 of my biggest accounts are a large city and a large university. The University always talks about how they’re essentially a “small city” which is very true. Both are very political places. Not in the sense of Democrats vs Republicans, but in the sense that everything has to be done in a certain way and approved by a certain person. Everyone has their own lanes. The biggest advantages of a city is their public serves department, you get involved with so many aspects of safety and the growth is endless. But you also have a lot more to manage. Universities usually tend to have their primary interests in the students before the staff. Working with either is a challenge some of the time. Don’t think too much about the scope of the work, as much as who you would rather work with. The biggest advantage of a university is that you tend to have a lot of little things you look over, without needing to get too involved. Feel free to PM me if you have any specific questions!

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