Spreading the Word About Antonio's Rule

摘要

Iwanted to write and comment on the article in this latest issue (November 2011) of Tree Care Industry Magazine on page 41, "Accident Video Worth Review." This Tuesday (November 15) will mark the one year anniversary of the fatal accident our companysuffered as referenced in your article. On November 3, 2011, John Traverso (owner of Traverso Tree Service) was one of several speakers at the California Arborist Association workshop on Improving Your Field Operations & Tree Worker Safety. His talk wasentitled "Better Safety Through Personal Tragedy," where he shared (details) about our accident and the changes we have made to our safety program in the aftermath of that event. Part of his talk was the showing of the FACE video (referenced in the November TCI article). He explained that in our company, one new protocol is called "The Antonio Rule" (after Antonio Barajas, the man killed when a climbing line caught in the chipper threw him against the machine), and our crew members faithfully follow itevery day.