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FAA opens probe into Boeing 787: 'Employees may have falsified aircraft records'

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Semi related this really shows why we need local and regional news.

Seattle Times is close to Boeing and the reporting demonstrates the value of those relationships and knowledge. Whereas The New York Times doesn’t have to be boots on the ground, neither does Washington Post.

Dominic has been peerless in his reporting on the Lazy B

https://archive.ph/NBvqF

local reporters just seem to have a nose for the story. they go to the local watering holes and talk to the people implementing these decisions.

Oh, those pesky employees not adhering to the written policies and procedures again. Everything else looks good on paper. I don't know why some employees have to be such deviants. (/s)

My favourite experience at an employee was reading the manual of all the cleaning and safety measures I was supposed to do every day and realising they would have to hire on at least another full time employee to get everything done according to their written procedures in a week. Of course, the intention was to not in fact have a safe or clean workspace, but to save on labor costs while scapegoating the minimum wage understaffed workforce for the inevitable failings.

Maybe sometimes this might involve an exasperated memo from upper management about how the employees must just be clueless and uneducated and that's why they keep doing things wrong.

>save on labor costs while scapegoating the minimum wage understaffed workforce for the inevitable failings.

I was witness to an OSHA investigation once, and it was incredible to see how the company was able to "get away" with placing blame onto a new-hire for being "overambitious..." when our entire team remembered exactly what bossman had instructed this new employee to do (which was obviously illegal)... even the new guy initially objected (only complying at risk of "being fired").

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Related to OP's article, at that same company we routinely falsified security and operating equipment checks... so we would have time to do all the other stuff which our half-staff still never had enough time to "get around to fixin."

I laugh with fellow electricians often that "it's surprising more things don't burn down." Always a good, uneasy chuckle.

If you want even more of that uneasy feeling, try taking apart some mass market kitchen appliances.

OEM/stock ovens are certainly a sight to behold... but even scarier is when a crack-head tenant bypasses everything to make a crack-oven, full-broilers and all (always on some already-dangerous 3-prong circuit from the 40's). It's usually the next tenant whom discovers this...

The most dangerous item in most houses (from an insurance perspective) is an oil-filled radiating "space heater." Outside of overload (wattage) dangers, modern ones are typically sold with a 2-prong cord only... despite having a ground post inside the thermostat, to bond to outside metal frame.

On the first freeze and coldest days of each year, I expect to read about lots of house fires [unfortunately]. Please don't overload your circuits, folks!

My impression is that the oil filled electric radiators are safer than non oil filled ones, which get very hot and can start combustible things on fire (eg curtains). Whereas the main danger from oil filled radiators is overloading circuits/extension cords, especially with older or less than solid connections.

That design is certainly bad for shock/electrocution risk, but how much does that really move the needle on property insurance claims?

When precision composite or aluminum parts don't fit, just jump up-and-down on them until they do. Record on paperwork as "everything fit perfectly". A little lost durability or strength sells more repair parts! /s

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