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Safety Briefing for Daytime Plowing

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Snowplowing in Icy Weather

What happens here

During a team safety meeting, the importance of maintaining a high level of awareness ('head on a swivel') is stressed for daytime plowing operations. The crew is advised to plow defensively rather than offensively, especially with cars actively moving and parking in the lots. A cautionary tale from 'Crackhead Square' illustrates the potential for accidents and lawsuits when plowing around careless drivers.

Goal: A safety meeting is held with the plowing crew to prepare for daytime operations, emphasizing defensive driving and situational awareness due to active vehicle traffic. A past incident at a problematic apartment complex (Crackhead Square) is recounted to underscore the risks of plowing around parked cars.

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about it but today is going to be different because we're going to be done okay so we are on the defensive so to sum up our safety meeting typically we plow at night but since we're going to be plowing during the day i just told the boys to have their head on a swivel and this one this is a true story just down the road from here we have a complex that we call crackhead square i think the real name of it was scott square or something like it it was filled it was the worst part of a very good neighborhood that you could ever have in fact it was so bad that the police put in a separate outlaw or facility and office inside of this apartment complex because they had so many issues and what we learned is while we were snow plowing there the people would as you're going forward and backward they'd come and pull right behind you and park hoping that you wouldn't see them so you would crunch hit them and then they'd get a whole bunch of lawsuits and claims out of it so you learn pretty fast to plow on the defensive and not on the offensive and that's the way we typically snow

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