Timeline for Is it acceptable to present a "safety moment" on excessive use of headphones?
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| Nov 1, 2019 at 16:51 | comment | added | Prasanna | @bluegreen, thats a good point. I will add it too. Thank you | |
| Oct 30, 2019 at 19:04 | comment | added | bluegreen | @Prasanna I would think a better message would be the dangers of biking with headphones on, preventing you from being aware of the traffic around you. That could get you killed. | |
| Oct 22, 2019 at 13:44 | comment | added | Prasanna | @jwenting, "Smoking kills" is an awareness campaign. It doesn't force anyone to refrain from smoking. I'm not telling anyone to stop using headphones or not to listen to loud music. I'm just sharing the information I have with me (that others may not possibly know - I don't know about this yet). I'm sorry that you feel this way. It is unfortunate. | |
| Oct 22, 2019 at 3:33 | comment | added | jwenting | @Prasanna you ARE telling people how to live their lives, what to do. And not even just in a professional setting apparently, but when they're in private. That's not going to leave a favourable impression of your character with your coworkers. | |
| Oct 21, 2019 at 12:45 | comment | added | Dirk | Just a small remark about the article: What does "80%" even mean? I have in ear headphones which, when plugged into my phone, are not that loud at 80%. On the other hand, if I plug my headset into my computer soundbar, even 10-15% is already really loud. So just saying "keep it below 80%" is not really good advice... | |
| Oct 21, 2019 at 5:10 | comment | added | Prasanna | @jwenting the office is as quite as it can get. There is nothing wrong with the office. But people tend to crank up the volume when they are riding a bike to cancel out the traffic noise. I know that for sure because I do it and I have heard many say that. Even if it is speculation, so be it. I'm getting out a message that is good for everyone in the team. I don't know if they will ever remember this and do what is good for them or not. My job is only to get the msg delivered. It is up to them to take it or leave it. No one is judging anyone here. No is telling them what to do. | |
| Oct 21, 2019 at 3:43 | comment | added | jwenting | How much reason do you have to believe your coworkers are habitually listening to very loud music through their headphones? In my experience that just doesn't happen, you have it just loud enough to hear the music but not so loud that you can't notice people wanting your attention. If people need to have their music on that loud that it harms their hearing in order to block out the background noise of the office there's something seriously wrong with your office culture. | |
| Oct 20, 2019 at 11:50 | answer | added | Joe Strazzere | timeline score: 6 | |
| Oct 20, 2019 at 3:16 | history | edited | Prasanna |
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| Oct 20, 2019 at 3:15 | vote | accept | Prasanna | ||
| Oct 20, 2019 at 3:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackWorkplace/status/1185752598525157376 | ||
| Oct 20, 2019 at 2:56 | comment | added | Prasanna | @Aganju, Out team is 70 members strong. This is a suggestion. Even if one or two are benefited by this, I would be happy. The others know that they have been made aware of this. It is not my job to force things on others. | |
| Oct 20, 2019 at 2:54 | comment | added | Prasanna | @HorusKol, You are right. But it does not matter. The takeaway from this message is not to get exposed to loud music for a long period of time. I'm not interested in quantifying the loudness as none of the music players show us the output in dB, just a bar graph instead. | |
| Oct 20, 2019 at 2:50 | comment | added | Prasanna | @seventyeightist, We have monthly team meetings to talk about new business coming in or how existing projects are doing, introducing new team members, talking about how the team goals should align with the goals of the greater organization etc. The first 5~10 mins are reserved for sharing safe practices or to share past safety incidents to raise awareness among employees. We have discussed about slip, trip hazards, working at heights, how safety incidents happened because the plant operator took a particular equipment for manual operation instead of keeping it in auto mode.... lots of things | |
| Oct 19, 2019 at 23:18 | comment | added | Aganju | the last two generations of parents have tried to tell us that too-loud music damages our hearing. do you really think you'll be more successful? | |
| Oct 19, 2019 at 22:56 | comment | added | HorusKol | What is 80% volume? Different devices and headphones/earphones will have a different max dB output. | |
| Oct 19, 2019 at 18:20 | answer | added | mcknz | timeline score: 18 | |
| Oct 19, 2019 at 18:07 | comment | added | seventyeightist | Can you give a bit more info about the "safety moment" practice? What type of meetings is it before? Is it about safety issues related to the workplace/content of the meeting? What kind of things have been presented in these "safety moment" discussions before? | |
| Oct 19, 2019 at 17:53 | answer | added | Charles E. Grant | timeline score: -1 | |
| Oct 19, 2019 at 17:19 | history | asked | Prasanna | CC BY-SA 4.0 |