工艺人员的反对struction Industry:

如今，关于手工艺品有很多谈话：会有足够的人吗？他们会完成工作吗？我们可以及时训练他们吗？

And there’s a lot of talk about safety, how construction has to do better and how the key is empowering the workers by treating them with dignity and showering them with respect. So that they’ll know they are considered important, and that management cares, and as part of that culture they’ll care about and take care of each other.

We're going to be writing about that in ENR, but when I stopped to think about it I had to admit that if you are a mason, a laborer, a carpenter or an equipment operator, I may have met you or your co-worker sometime, or we may have chatted on the jobsite. And I even have a construction worker in my family now that I’m so proud of, my son-in-law, a journeyman electrician.

不过，我真的不认识你。而且我不假装从内部了解您的工作生活。我不知道在早上7点出现在12度F时拉电线的感觉。我不知道当铁碎在你的脸上飞起来时，这是什么样的。我不知道在动力装置或炼油厂周转上放六辆12s弯曲管的感觉。我永远不会真正知道。

Now, I have to admit I was skeptical about how far this idea about safety-by-worker-empowerment can go, outside the energy and industrial projects where owners first demanded better safety and the employers and their crews are delivering it. Racking up millions of injury-free hours. Union and open shop.

我的感觉是，在工业，能源和精英制造市场领域之外，条件因项目而异，市场到市场，地区到地区。

安全差异者

We’ll never know what the safety difference-makers are, from your point of view, unless you tell us, open and honest, without the boss looking over our shoulder. What makes you safe? A job that runs on time? A shop steward who protects you from schedule-obsessed project managers? A safety manager who has real authority to take care of you and train you and equip you and protect you from being pushed to do risky things?

Or is it what the more safety-proud contractors talk of? That they treat you with respect, and ask you never to deliberately overlook a hazard or near-accident, that what you say is welcomed and not resented. That the safe places to work are those where you are never rushed to hang those last few sections of drywall, to swing one more beam into place, when your knees are getting a little tired, and the reach is a little too far, and the light isn't as good, and there's no time to position the equipment properly. That allow you to wait until the morning, until you talked about the hazards, put everything in place, to be sure you can do it safely and do it right. Those bosses, those companies.

We’ll never know unless you tell us, right now, in time for our features for Safety Week in April, starting in the comment section below in this blog post or with an email to me atkormanr@bnpmedia.com.

We’re listening.

理查德

理查德·科尔曼（Richard Korman），副编辑