I would like to say how sorry I am to all of the family and friends of ALL of these workers who lost their lives. Thoughts and Prayers go out to you all!
Safety on the City Center Project is a HUGE issue, but it was not the only one. This was the most hostile work environment I had ever worked on in over 28 years of working construction. The Top Executives for Perini have VERY lousy attitudes toward their employees. The constant negative environment is a huge factor that plays right into the unsafe work environment. With a constant in your face, yelling & screaming, continuous threats of being fired, and being called foul names to your face was a very unhealthy to all workers. Because of this hostile work environment it is no wonder that accidents repeatedly happened. Workers were under constant attack and pressure, which I believe are a major contributor to some of these and other accidents not involving worker deaths. The attitude is constantly we'll fire you! There is not a day that went by that those words were not spoken to several employees. Imagine having the daily fear of being fired for something insignificant.
When there was an issue that Executive Management wanted to deal with or if you yourself had an issue their attitude was, "Don't go to HR, we will deal with it like men right here in this room, and that is where it will stay."
Let me give 1 example...There was a particular day that there was to be work done on one of the parking lots. Remember that monthly, weekly, and daily schedules are done on the project. Management, knowing that the work was to be preformed did nothing to inform their employees of the upcoming work. Instead the day of the work they sent out a nasty e-mail stating that work was being done in this parking lot and if you don't move your car immediately it will be towed at your own expense!
One additional comment: Management not only didn't make sure that their employees were safe but they participated themselves in allot of the same unsafe practices. You absolutely have to lead by example.
It is true that something needs to be done to improve OSHA in NV to uphold the safety, but the Management of Perini, at the City Center Project, has firsthand knowledge of what is going on and THEY decide to ignore and in allot of cases perpetuate it.
I know that I am not the only employee who has witnessed, or has 1st hand experience in dealing with this sort of hostility towards employees, WHO ARE GETTING THE WORK DONE!
I would like to thank the Sun for the opportunity to post here; hopefully others of you will also speak out on this forum in hopes that we can change our work environment!

I would like to say how sorry I am to all of the family and friends of ALL of these workers who lost their lives. Thoughts and Prayers go out to you all!
Safety on the City Center Project is a HUGE issue, but it was not the only one. This was the most hostile work environment I had ever worked on in over 28 years of working construction. The Top Executives for Perini have VERY lousy attitudes toward their employees. The constant negative environment is a huge factor that plays right into the unsafe work environment. With a constant in your face, yelling & screaming, continuous threats of being fired, and being called foul names to your face was a very unhealthy to all workers. Because of this hostile work environment it is no wonder that accidents repeatedly happened. Workers were under constant attack and pressure, which I believe are a major contributor to some of these and other accidents not involving worker deaths. The attitude is constantly we'll fire you! There is not a day that went by that those words were not spoken to several employees. Imagine having the daily fear of being fired for something insignificant.
When there was an issue that Executive Management wanted to deal with or if you yourself had an issue their attitude was, "Don't go to HR, we will deal with it like men right here in this room, and that is where it will stay."
Let me give 1 example...There was a particular day that there was to be work done on one of the parking lots. Remember that monthly, weekly, and daily schedules are done on the project. Management, knowing that the work was to be preformed did nothing to inform their employees of the upcoming work. Instead the day of the work they sent out a nasty e-mail stating that work was being done in this parking lot and if you don't move your car immediately it will be towed at your own expense!
One additional comment: Management not only didn't make sure that their employees were safe but they participated themselves in allot of the same unsafe practices. You absolutely have to lead by example.
It is true that something needs to be done to improve OSHA in NV to uphold the safety, but the Management of Perini, at the City Center Project, has firsthand knowledge of what is going on and THEY decide to ignore and in allot of cases perpetuate it.
I know that I am not the only employee who has witnessed, or has 1st hand experience in dealing with this sort of hostility towards employees, WHO ARE GETTING THE WORK DONE!
I would like to thank the Sun for the opportunity to post here; hopefully others of you will also speak out on this forum in hopes that we can change our work environment!

I would like to say how sorry I am to all of the family and friends of ALL of these workers who lost their lives. Thoughts and Prayers go out to you all!
Safety on the City Center Project is a HUGE issue, but it was not the only one. This was the most hostile work environment I had ever worked on in over 28 years of working construction. The Top Executives for Perini have VERY lousy attitudes toward their employees. The constant negative environment is a huge factor that plays right into the unsafe work environment. With a constant in your face, yelling & screaming, continuous threats of being fired, and being called foul names to your face was a very unhealthy to all workers. Because of this hostile work environment it is no wonder that accidents repeatedly happened. Workers were under constant attack and pressure, which I believe are a major contributor to some of these and other accidents not involving worker deaths. The attitude is constantly we'll fire you! There is not a day that went by that those words were not spoken to several employees. Imagine having the daily fear of being fired for something insignificant.
When there was an issue that Executive Management wanted to deal with or if you yourself had an issue their attitude was, "Don't go to HR, we will deal with it like men right here in this room, and that is where it will stay."
Let me give 1 example...There was a particular day that there was to be work done on one of the parking lots. Remember that monthly, weekly, and daily schedules are done on the project. Management, knowing that the work was to be preformed did nothing to inform their employees of the upcoming work. Instead the day of the work they sent out a nasty e-mail stating that work was being done in this parking lot and if you don't move your car immediately it will be towed at your own expense!
One additional comment: Management not only didn't make sure that their employees were safe but they participated themselves in allot of the same unsafe practices. You absolutely have to lead by example.
It is true that something needs to be done to improve OSHA in NV to uphold the safety, but the Management of Perini, at the City Center Project, has firsthand knowledge of what is going on and THEY decide to ignore and in allot of cases perpetuate it.
I know that I am not the only employee who has witnessed, or has 1st hand experience in dealing with this sort of hostility towards employees, WHO ARE GETTING THE WORK DONE!!!!

I would like to thank the Sun for the opportunity to post here, hopefully others of you will also speak out on this forum in hopes that we can change our work enviornment!