If you can't hear ambient noise it's an issue.
Safety violation.
My take:
If it's a loud area, then you need hearing protection. Note that most
earbuds don't isolate that much, as such if you're even moderately close to
the osha hearing protection levels then you can exceed them by permitting
I think you're right on the money, employees are there to work not
listen to music. I walked up on an employee once potholing a plastic
gas service right at the edge of the pavement with headphones on, I
had to scream to get his attention. Totally zero situational awareness
and no way he'd have hea
Are there any hazardous noise levels?
On Fri, May 12, 2023, 2:00 PM Chuck McCown via AF wrote:
> I warned an employee wearing noise cancelling earphones that they were a
> safety hazard yesterday. Today I noticed he had them on again, I pointed
> to his ear. He went off on me, complaining that
How dare you, Wearing earbuds is equivalent to putting up a 'do not
disturb' sign. He didn't not want to be bothered, and clearly you were
bothering him, probably by wanting him to do work.
On 5/12/2023 1:25 PM, Chuck McCown via AF wrote:
I warned an employee wearing noise cancelling earphones
I don’t see why that would be a “boomer” related issue.
I assume you’re talking about a manufacturing floor or warehouse. You need to
hear the backup beeper on the forklift. You need to hear an overload alarm on
your machine. You need to hear someone shouting “Shut it off! Johnny’s arm is
I warned an employee wearing noise cancelling earphones that they were a safety
hazard yesterday. Today I noticed he had them on again, I pointed to his ear.
He went off on me, complaining that everyone else had earbuds. I told him that
many times I started talking to him and he either acted
I have a Symmetra RM unit (16kw) that is ancient. We got it used around
2008. It has a Main Intelligence Module, and a Redundant Intelligence
module. The Main intelligence module has reported a failure. None of
the LED's on it are lit. The redundant module has LED's, but none of
the front
I’ve never seen such an animal. Inside a cabinet I’d normally say the buffer
tube itself is good enough protection.
We’ve been using a FiberOne cassette system which has a door on the rear. OSP
cable goes into the panel, and the buffer tubes all end up behind the door. I
don’t know how
