What would you do to improve the FIRST experience?

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Originally Posted by Road Rash

So in a nutshell, are you're basically saying that the safety advisors are treating safety as an audit of your systems, and overlooking actual safe practices taking place?
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I'll also train them to be able to point out our procedures to the safety advisors, just in case they are unable to comfortably answer a question for whatever reason. I just want them to make good, sound decisions while working as relaxed as we can possibly be at the moment.

Yeah, that's a good analogy. And to be fair, there are plenty of instances of them recommending good safety practices and ensuring that intelligent safety does get recognized. It can just be a challenge to deal with the unfortunate examples. When a student saw me get accidentally arm-barred by a safety volunteer a couple of years ago, it was an awkward conversation to have to ensure her that the volunteer was acting with my best interests at heart, he was maybe just a little over aggressive.

Overall, I think our students (and it sounds like yours too) have a healthy respect for their own and others' safety while working. After all, they made "Safety Always" one of team slogans!