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I told a 30 year hand that pre-lift meetings were a waste, then I watched one 8 minute talk save a $14,000 panel
I used to wave off the morning huddle on the pad, especially when the super wanted to run the whole lift plan out loud for the third day straight. Six weeks back in Gary, Indiana, we had a 42,000 pound air handler going up 140 feet between two existing buildings, and I figured the walk through was just talk. The super made everyone stand there for 8 minutes and point at the swing path, and that is when the oiler caught a tag line tie off that was rubbing a sharp corner on the lower roof edge. Nobody had noticed it in three days of rigging, and that one strap would have popped about 30 feet off the deck with a full load. Now I am the guy calling for the huddle, and the older hands on my crew think I flipped sides on them. Has anyone else had a pre-lift talk catch something the rigging crew missed, or am I just lucky that day?
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faith_carter15d ago
That's just how it goes with checklists and safety steps everywhere, you do them a hundred times and they feel pointless right up until the one time they aren't, then you never skip them again. Hands giving you grief will come around the first time a huddle saves one of them.
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