Three Strike Rule

cbs

Please comment on our "Three Strike Rule" which states that if an employee commits three safety violations in any 90 day period, he/she is terminated.

Hatchetman

You need to provide more informaiton than that.

Is leaving a waste can in the middle of an aisle the same in terms of a "strike" as drivng a company car while intoxicated? Give some examples.

And are all incidents treated the same until the third one. In other words, any progressive discipline?

Whatever

In order to properly answer the question, I would like to see the actual wording of the rule. How is "safety violation" defined. Does it take into account that certain violations are more serious than others (in fact, there are some that might result in an immediate termination or suspension). However, if all it says is what you posted, I would suggest that it be changed. AS I stated earlier there are degrees of safety violations. Going to different extremes of seriousness, I would never want to terminated an employee whose ear plug fell out and I would never allow anyone who operated a fork life while drunk to go unpunished (suspended or terminated)on the first offense.

Paul in Cannon Beach

Could you also argue this rule might discourage accident reporting?

Paul

Don D

Our progressive discipline system (Union but matters not) involves three steps, the third resulting in termination. Safety violations are treated no differently from other infractions and may well be one of the three steps. A violation is a violation is a violation.

Crout

What happens after 90 days? Does the EE "go back to zero" so to speak?