earth moving machines are designed for safety but they're big enough to hide a man person you could kill me this mechanic is lucky's able to complain or he should have protected himself by removing the and do not operate on the controls what this man didn't know was that the operator it left the lift lever in the raised position so the arms would rise automatically when the engine started a qualified operator would have known better any short time you're inviting injury in fact taking shortcuts is often a quick road to trouble for example consider what happened to harry sanders harry is coming to work with a problem his son is having a football injured knee operated on this morning kerry wants to finish this job and take a couple hours off to visit his son the operator is complain that the scraper is shipped in too slow and taken a shortcut before while waiting for the operator to return a harry starts the machine in order to judge the problem while he waits for the engine to warm aries thoughts grip the worries about is  the accelerator feels dead so then he checks the feel of the service brake his attention is divided thinking about his son is hands and feet go through motions he believes have become we're most people have days when they come to work with worries hangovers or distraction those are times for being doubly cautious when the body is on the job but the mind is elsewhere it's danger time graham greenwood was victim of another kind of mental hazard ego doesn't want to use brandis sneer at him for being overly cautious so bland shakes hands with danger  tools that time to make sure you have a safe and is before you start using them they should be the right tools for the job and in safe conditions if glans friended ground off that mushroom face tak care of the tools i use is he could have prevented that accident results in serious injur one word of caution from the old timer would have saved a lot of pain and l and even the old timers and lapse into care about the safety gap is correct when he starts but he doesn't think about how much he's grinding down  near miss due to the mechanics failure to restrain the track before ian loosened it at a high point here they're about to push a high sprocket and machine from an old set of tracks onto a new set with both tracks removed the machine is free to roll on a slight grade it may just take  if they'd had an operator in the machine he could have stopped it by dropping the ripper or blade they should have planted proper block and restraint but better still a should change one track at a time and then there can't be a roll away we got going hurry and failure to heed safety warnings can also endanger those doing routine maintenance despite constant warnings about hot oil and pressure systems some op d always things he didn't get his hand away in time have happened the temperature gauge is pressuring gauges and the safety caps on cooling systems are there to prevent accidents from occurring the people who shake hands with danger or those who don't learn before hand what they're getting into like the owner whose brake rotor chamber isn't losing air pressure i got the br i gotta run into the dealers to get some repair parts where i'm going when you take it apart to save us some time ok at this point the service manuals call for the insertion of a threaded tool to hold a spring force whether you're working on anything from nitrogen accumulators to inflated tires it pays to know the kind of power you're dealing with  just as soon as he finds a rag to wipe off the carburetor meanwhile the it's possible to become overconfident about handling dangerous materials but good reason why safety instructions should be repeated at frequent intervals idly enough it isn't lack of familiarity with  job that causes most accidents often it's the routine us of the work that makes a person over confident a bill myers a change in buckets a job he's done at least a hundred times if he were new at it bill would be watching and thinking about every step now it's so routine that caution has been though the hole is dry the pin won't slide and there's no stick or swab in the grease can but he could surely find one if he took the time to search around this is the moment that split second or shaken hands with danger he should have blocked both pushkar and he should never have relied upon anything as on the stable our crushable as building blocks safety is always in the hands of people on the job the warnings and cautions are there for those who he safety procedures are spelled out and illustrated in lubrication and maintenance guy operators guides and service man the protection is there in machine design and safety device shield the body from the unexpected the human element remains it can lend itself to safety or turn a routine situation into a dangerous one right and we all know that the service man doesn't always work under ideal conditions mechanic murray is an excavator with a dead engine it won't start which means the brak shake hands with