I am so SICK of that stupid blow-out station… (Compressed air cleaning station)
no, let me restate that, the BOS is an inanimate object, and is not inherently good or bad, what I’m sick of is…
PEOPLE NOT USING THE BOS CORRECTLY!
they go in there with a bunch of stuff to be cleaned and proceed to blow it out IN THE OPEN AIR, PRODUCING DEAFENING LEVELS OF HIGH FREQUENCY NOISE, and they do it for HOURS ON END
Decibel ratings can range from mid-eighties (damage starts at 85 dB) to just shy of 100 dB, and that’s even after the sound attenuation hardware was installed, thanks to the sound attenuation hardware, it tends to keep it on the “eighties” end now, but it still can get louder, especially when the hood isn’t used
(Names Farscaped to protect the innocent)
At first it was just Grayza and the rest of the POS crew, they’d been asked nicely to please use the hood properly to keep the noise down, but polite requests have been IGNORED, they still produce deafening, screeching cacophony of noise with the thing, it honestly seems like they just don’t fucking care “oh we’re only out there for a little while, it’s not going to affect us”, completely ignoring the fact that there are other people in the warehouse that it DOES affect (I’m just the most vocal of the group)
D’argo has confronted the worst offenders a couple times, still it continues, it looks to us like they just don’t fucking care
and now, more people are ignoring the hood, blowing out in open air, and causing ear-splitting noise, all because they’re ignoring the hood and blowing out in the open air, it almost seems like the thought process is “well, if the POS department can do it, we can do it as well”
all the work Stark and his group have put into the sound-deadening enclosure is USELESS, it may as well not even be there if people are going to ignore the hood
Over the past month, at the end of the day, my ears have been ringing, and that’s even with using the supplied hearing protectors, my hearing IS being damaged by incorrect usage of the BOS, and I’m not the only one, D’argo is sustaining cumulative hearing damage, as is Rygel, oftentimes, I have to ask Rygel to repeat himself and he’s only sitting about ten feet away from me, D’argo has also noticed similar effects of Noise Induced Hearing Loss
Chiana has verifiable hearing damage and it is highly probable that it was caused by extended bouts of unprotected exposure to BOS noise, and nothing can be done to repair the damage, the damage is done, and is irreperable, this is inexcusable
Like it or not, the incorrect usage of the BOS IS affecting other warehouse staff, hearing is being damaged, and hearing damage is NOT medically repairable
to be perfectly blunt, unless the incorrect usage of the BOS is addressed, you can put all the sound attenuating devices you want around it, but it simply WILL NOT WORK if people ignore the equipment and just blow stuff out in the open air, any attempts at sound attenuation are futile if the station is used incorrectly
No, the answer is NOT supplying hearing protection, or transferring me into the Lab, as it’s not just me who’s being affected anyway, the answer is to ENFORCE THE PROPER USAGE OF THE STATION!, if items are blown out under the hood, the noise levels are within the safe range, and no further building or enclosures are necessary, but if people insist on ignoring the hood and blowing out items in the open air, then the noise attenuation items are useless
I understand that there are some items that are too large or inconvenient to fit under the hood, and that there’s really no other effective course of action than to blow them off outside the hood, but it seems that even the smallest items are being blown out outside the hood, for no reason other than “it’s easier” and/or “everyone else does it, why shouldn’t I?” and that’s the bigger issue here
there’s also the issue of the hood may be a tad too tall for some of the shorter employees, and they probably feel they have no other alternative but to go outside the hood, we need to redesign the hood to first make it more usable for people of all heights, and second, to allow larger items to fit under the hood and have more room to work under the hood itself
We basically need to enforce the proper use of the hood…
1; insure the item being cleaned is BEHIND the yellow line
2; if the unit can fit under the hood, then KEEP IT UNDER THE HOOD while cleaning, no exceptions
Bluntly put, I don’t care that it’s “more convenient” for you to blow out the item outside the hood, your SELFISH desire for convenience does not give you the right to risk damaging the hearing of the warehouse staff
When I use the station, i make the utmost effort to keep the noise level I’m producing below the danger range, out of respect to my fellow employees, even if it means it makes the cleaning job slightly less convenient
