Kale is a user on mastodon.social. You can follow them or interact with them if you have an account anywhere in the fediverse. If you don't, you can sign up here.
Kale @DarkestKale

Watching 'How it's made' shows and being firmly reminded that American manufacturers have extremely different approaches to safety

By that I mean they don't think about it at all

@DarkestKale I love 'how it's made' shows, even though they present an extremely abridged version most of the time. Still fascinating to see some of the process!

@DarkestKale I work in industrial construction and you would not believe the stories I've heard from the safety guys and from people trying to get around the safety guys. When your focus is on money over people, it's not going to end well

@DarkestKale an example? Because like yeah, but what prompted this

@Stoney complete lack of safety guards on any rolling equipment, pretty much every episode involving candy or rubber

Especially when you see people pushing things into those rollers. Hand crunches in their future.

Here in Aus we are far more intense on the need for guards and so forth.

@Stoney (I designed industrial stuff in the past ;) )