Safety is one of those topics that is important to everyone, but most don’t pay it the attention it deserves. It’s easy to cut corners, until the corners kill you. Or one of your workers.In the December 2013 issue of Cleaner, I wrote about a worker in Chicago who died when a surge of stormwater swept him down the 30-inch sewer line he was working in. He had removed his safety harness to clean a small area he couldn’t otherwise reach. It was innocent enough, and well-intentioned, but it ended up being a fatal mistake.That column prompted a response from
