Mike Andes visits a job site where workers swing machetes near each other, operate heavy equipment with no barriers, and skip basic safety gear. Unsafe conditions like these drive away good workers because they signal a company has no real safety systems in place.
Usually when you show up, when cameras show up to job site, everyone's like, all right, be in your best order. Put on your safety glasses, make sure you wear your steel toe boots. This morning was any indication, like, we had machetes being swung with people within a foot of each other. We had no safety gear in terms of ear protection, eye protection. Chaps weren't being used. We had a skid steer within an inch of a foundation with no sort of protection for that. We had a trailer that was overloaded dramatically, and you can tell I don't believe they have CDLs. And so the fact that you have two axles with dualies and it's overloaded, we have a problem. If I went and showed up there as a job, I literally felt like my life was at risk. Like, you behind a camera felt like you were at risk at some points.
There were several times I was like, oh, God, I'm in a war.
You lose good people by not having safety protocol, not having standards, not having systems.
I am literally in documentary mode right now. I'm filming, like, wild animals.
They don't like being jerked around from job to job based upon. We need more money this week, so let's all go hardcore.
I'll have to intervene because I can be like, bro, you're not supposed to do that.
On this edition of Plan.
