If you are not a bagger, no. No additional time will be granted to complete your tasks, so you just end up screwing the people you work with while they cover you.
If you wish to participate in store safety, learn about OSHA. Like google it now and get reading.
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No additional time will be granted to complete your tasks, so you just end up screwing the people you work with while they cover you.
This. This. THIS.
Speaking as someone that was pressured into being on STAR Safety, it's not fun, and it's not something you can feel good about either. The reason I say that is Kroger acts like you are being entrusted with this great responsibility in keeping both employees and customers safe, and that safety is the absolute most important thing at Kroger that takes precedence over everything else. It's nothing but a lie. Kroger doesn't provide you with the time necessary to complete all the tasks and the paperwork that you're supposed to complete, and then you later get chewed out when your book isn't in order and the new hire sign off sheets aren't up to date and when the period safety huddle sheets are missing/incomplete and so on and so on and so on. Management speaks of how important this all is and safety in general, and then turns around gives you NO time to actually carry out the necessary work.
Like with everything else at Kroger, the ONLY time management and everyone else in general cares is when faced with an inspection/audit... or an accident actually happens. Then, and only then, it suddenly becomes of major importance. Kroger much prefers to roll the dice and take its chances and hope that nothing happens rather than actually be prepared.
What training (video watching) there is is inadequate and incomplete
Associate, co-, and grocery managers obstruct fire exits, thinking nothing of it
Lifts are left forks-up and routinely forks-out, in the walkway/pathway
Abusive managers are kept in place, no matter how reckless they are
All this, yet there are endless safety sheets to be signed-off on . . . just so the hapless, low-ranking associate can be blamed when something goes wrong.
That's not real safety, it's pretend safety, CYA "safety", just there for corporate liability reasons. If Krogrr were actually interested in safety, we'd be given a work environment free of abusive managers, plus the time, tools, and training to do our jobs properly.
It's hard. While you get to ignore surge help up front calls it's a hard trade:
1. Safety meetings for all staff. After you call about 500+ times you MIGHT get 2. 3 at the most depending what store and division you work. Maybe more (unlikely) maybe less (likely)
2. Paperwork for safety MUST be read and signed off by ALL employees. Each dept has their own safety sign off sheet they must do.
3. Taking notes of busted equipment and reporting it to management for replacement or "bandaid" work.
4. Documenting all safety meeting notes and sign off sheets.
5. YOU will be chewed out if employees do not sign off their designated sheet and hand it in. YOU are responsible for getting employees to read and sign.
6. Address all safety concerns and handle accordingly.
There's more but I can't rember. It's time consuming. I've done it before and it got frustrating.
