careless damage

[up to my neck in it]

just wondering what people's thoughts are as to employees damaging equipment and machinery getting fed up with having to stand bill from needless damage ie back lights on manitou and mirrors that are not bloody cheep give them bollocking will need me finding another employee ,tell them they'll have to start paying for damage if it continues or just have to suck it up an pay bill for damage

 

[milkloss]

If it gets that bad then tell them they’ll have to pay at least a proportion of the damage. What really annoys me is when no one tells you they’ve done it and not a care in the world.

 

[A1an]

Suck it up first time round, if they keep breaking the same things again I’d be asking them to get their hand in their pocket.

 

[Will Blackburn]

I don't think you can ask them to pay. All you can do is let them go, and start smashing up someone else's gear.

 

[Milkcow365]

We have a kind of bonus scheme here for various different things and one of the things that can deduct it is careless damage,

 

[Horn&corn]

Heard of farm that gives everyone £10per wk if there’s no breakage that’s not owned up to. No-one comes forward then all loose wks bonus. Apparently it’s cut bills and hassle. From a fitter that works there. Sounds good idea

 

[Stig taylor]

Have come across a bonus scheme in place eg £1000 per employee payed out at end of year minus £200 per breakage . Amazing how careful people are if it affects their own pocket! Also works out cheaper than multiple repairs

 

[Milkcow365]

Mines works out at £100 a month to start with, the thing is they need an incentive to think about the damage, but you can’t take it out of there wages as there’s plenty of jobs going
so making it an extra that’s a goal to achieve,
Gets them working with you not for you

 

[Bald Rick]

Employed a guy once (briefly) that punched the electronic load display on the TMR mixer until the screen went black. He had "anger issues" .........

 

[kmo]

back lights on manitou and mirrors that are not bloody cheap

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Recovery-L...=1541759343&sr=8-11&keywords=trailer+lighting

 

[Beef farmer]

Employed a guy once (briefly) that punched the electronic load display on the TMR mixer until the screen went black. He had "anger issues" .........

Obviously a self feed fan.

 

[melted welly]

In the past when we had a bigger squad, careless damage got to an unacceptable level, too easy for guys to hide damage amongst a large squad. I'm not the sort of person to lose the head, so we had a few staff meetings, not much changed. So I totalled up the bills which I deemed to be caused by carelessness/roughness and it came to around £15k, I then looked up online what we could buy for an equivalent amount, specifically replacements for bits of kit that were causing us grief.

We then had another sit down and went thru the reasons why we were still using a 25yr old drill, trailers that were from the 80s and were running 8000hr loadalls.

Peer pressure was the most effect tool I found.

 

[bovrill]

I think a lot of problems arise from trying to use large modern machinery (in particular telescopics) on your own, in sheds and yards that were built to accommodate a Dexta with a trip loader and three blokes with pitchforks and strong backs.

 

[betweenthelines]

Are the lights and lenses properly guarded? No point in complaining about breakages if they're due to design faults

 

[Scholsey]

Are the lights and lenses properly guarded? No point in complaining about breakages if they're due to design faults

It’s a telehander not a bumper car!

 

[Zippy768]

Accidents happen, but if workers don't care about damage they have caused, one would probably be better off without that person

 

[yellowfrog]

half my time on one farm is taken up with repairing the results of the kindergarten brigade

 

[betweenthelines]

It’s a telehander not a bumper car!

If properly designed, it shouldn't be easy to damage lights and mirrors. If everyone keeps damaging a particular vehicle, it may be that the vehicle is at fault-or do you think people come to work not caring if they damage kit?

I've seen many vehicles where indicators, for example are on stalks that protrude outside the main body of the vehicle or headlights are held in place by cast brackets that break at almost any impact.

Putting guards around lights may be very cost effective preventative maintenance.

 

[ollie989898]

I think a lot of problems arise from trying to use large modern machinery (in particular telescopics) on your own, in sheds and yards that were built to accommodate a Dexta with a trip loader and three blokes with pitchforks and strong backs.

This.

So many farm yards are piled high with general detritus and scrap that you can't swing a cat.

With a handful of good chaps you can sort a lot of issues and make things easier and faster. Nothing drives me more insane than putting up with the same issues for year after year, do something about it.

 

[Fallowfield]

Maybe the carelessness is a result of rushing to get things done in an effort to be as productive as possible.