ROOF SAFETY; DOES NOBODY CARE??

It is very important that professional roofers shoul abiode by roofing safety rules. They should not act careless. Before climbing roof, roofers should prevent themselves from injury. Helmets, boots, knee-cap and harness should be best friends of roofers.

Roofers should prevent themselves from injury. Before climbing roof they should wear helmet, boots, knee-cap and harness to ensure safety.

egg Said: Well, it may be time for a trip down linguistic lane. Per diem is related to carpe diem by the day. Woody might just be annoyed because nobody payed him what they should have to drive that motorcycle through the desert way back in the early diems. The benefits were just uplifting panoramas and self-reliance while building independence and a first-rate mind, day after day. A person can get carpal tunnel syndrome grabbing at small amounts of money on a repetitive basis. Could even happen to you while nailing on shingles though even a four cents a nail, it didnt happen to me. Minimum wage on the other hand, just gives you plain old tunnel syndrome although you could also get carpal tunnel syndrome while you were at it if you happened to be continuously clutching at the walls. Sometimes it seems like we are walled in by the tunnel of days. But one diem does not equal another diem really and hopefully never will. Each day is a unique gift. Carping per diem is not latin-based, per se or even per say. Our rugged old English has accumulated a lot of variety and that one is Scandinavian from karpa (to dispute.) There is benefit from disputation, even sometimes the carping variety. How this shakes out for anyone in particular is not for me to say, only that it is all somehow related and I get a per diem allowance for such things.

I completely agree with you.

Who doesn't wear a helmet?

All Desk jockeys, politicans and marketers should also wear Helmets and steel toed shoes...and duct tape. Air Conditioning is also bad for people. So we need to eliminate that from all offices. Give them plenty of water for hydration. And a sharpener for their crayons. Lots of clean diapers in case they look out the window and actually see someone move....surely they'll poop again

This is one of the most uncomfortable-looking, unsafe-looking roofer-types I have ever seen in my life. He does not and will not ever work anywhere near me, just so everyone is crystal clear where I stand on the subject.

This is me in the great old shake days.

I wear low-cut Redwing shoes with understated tread which has excellent grip. I wear gloves when I tear off. I wear knee protectors maybe once every five to ten years. I wear glasses and I wear ear protection when I'm running a gas-powered saw, a grinder, or a Fein tool. I wear a mask when I'm around concrete dust. For headgear I either wear a ball cap or my naked head. If I'm working below someone I'll wear a helmet. I never work below someone. I wear a safety harness when it is essential and no other time whatsoever. I'm coming up on seventy and so far everything is still working just fine, thank you. I love this job, I'm good at this job, to put it mildly, and I am proud to report that I am a free man. I have a special link to God don't ya know and if I had wanted to spend eight to ten hours a day six days a week in a harness he would gladly have made me a mule to start with. Watched a poor guy clanking back and forth while loading my 4/12 roof. One of the most pathetic things I have ever witnessed in my life. So pathetic in fact that I jumped in and helped him (three of mine for every one of his) just to shorten his own personal misery and get him out of my sight. End of sermon.

The local safety inspector is one of my customers. The first time I did a repair on his roof, he told me he had just been hired. He had just retired from one government career and was taking on another so he could double-dip his pension. Because his roof is so scary, I wear a harness on it. He lives on the edge of a cliff and from the roof you are looking down at the tops of 60' trees.

Last time I did work for him, we had a discussion about fall protection. I pointed out that, of the people using ropes for fall protection, 90% of them would be over the edge before the rope tightened up. He said they were aware of that, that there had been much discussion about it and that they temporarily cracked down and wrote citations about it, but in the end citing people for having EFFECTIVE fall protection was hurting the companies that were trying to make their employees in compliance. Now, all that counts is making the effort.

Me, if I go to the hassle of wearing fall protection, I always keep it adjusted to where it actually will work.

"I have a special link to God don't ya know and if I had wanted to spend eight to ten hours a day six days a week in a harness he would gladly have made me a mule to start with."

That's a keeper

Basically my feeling is that self preservation is the main reason you will do a job safely, if you don't know how to be safe on a roof you shouldn't be there in the first place. Drugs and alcohol aside.

 

My brother was a roofer and at some point he got some real alcohol issues. When he turned out to be on a roof slightly drunk, my parents decided it's time to do something asap. They sent him to rehab: https://addictionresource.com/drug-rehab/men-only/ and he's still there, though he's getting better.

I have safety harness w/ steep slope ,,and he showers 🎯🎯🎯

Right! same thoughts were going on in my mind.

Why not wear a harness just in case? I mean it won't hurt to be 100% safe right? What's the point of not wearing it? I am always wearing it....