CTSP program clebrates three 3 years improving safety in tree care

摘要

It was the end of a long, hot Saturday in August, and the crew at Treesmith Enterprises just wanted to get home. One ground worker, frustrated with the brush he was trying to load into a chipper during a job for a local school district, climbed onto the back of the machine and started to kick at the brush with his feet. At that moment, the culture of safety that Eric Gorsuch has worked for years to instill in his crew kicked in. "One of our other guys grabbed him and pulled him off, and said, 'What are you doing? We don't do that here,'" says Gorsuch, a TCIA Certified Treecare Safety Professional and safety officer for Treesmith, located in Anaheim, Calif. "That's an example of the safety culture working. Because nobody is perfect. (The ground worker) knew better. But he was hot and tired and frustrated. If you have a good safely culture working, other people will look out for people who may be fatigued, or whatever's going on."