Sitting here wondering if 50 certified rigging inspections is enough or just the start

Hit 50 inspected lifts last month at the refinery job down in Baton Rouge. My old timer partner says I'm wasting time being that thorough on the small stuff. But the safety guy says every single one matters. What's your number where you felt like you actually knew what you were doing vs just checking boxes? 50 seems like a milestone to me but maybe I'm overthinking it.

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rayc834d ago

Hit 50 myself back when I was doing crane inspections at a shipyard down in Galveston. Told my buddy I'd counted every single lift on the logbook, and he just laughed and said I was overthinking it like you're doing now. But here's the thing - that safety guy is right, every small lift matters until it doesn't, and you don't know which one will be the one that bites you. I remember a guy who skipped a routine inspection on a little 5-ton hoist and it dropped a load on his foot three weeks later. 50 sounds like a milestone to me, but more importantly it means you're building the habit of being thorough. Keep going until it feels natural, not forced, and you'll know you're there when you stop counting.

lucas9724d ago

That part about "it feels natural not forced" is exactly right. When I hit around 60 at a chemical plant in Texas I realized I had stopped second guessing myself on the small stuff. My trick was keeping a mental checklist of the most common stuff that goes wrong on each type of lift and just running through it automatically. Once you can do that without thinking about it you're past the box checking phase. The safety guy is right that every lift matters but your partner isn't totally wrong either - you don't need to treat a 2 ton hoist like a critical pick once you know the patterns.