Right Against Wrong

This is a story of that time when I was doing a job in Private Ltd. Company. The company is in a decent position in the wind energy sector. I was the site Incharge at that time and the safety and operational responsibility of my team which consisted of 18  members were on my shoulders. During our training days, we were taught that no job should be carried out when the wind speed is more than  15m/s, but when I joined my respective site this was not the condition. The blue colored employees were forced to restore the machine fault in spite of prevailing high wind speed. Working is such condition is very risky safety point of view, due to thunderstorm and high wind velocity there is a risk of high voltage electric shock or an accident which could be fatal. As soon as I took the charge of that Site forced the employees not to climb the machine in such a scenario. The productivity of that month felt drastically due to that decision and my manager issued me a warning letter in spite of explaining him the rationale behind my decision. I then went to head office and met the DGM of the Safety and Security department and explained to him the entire scenario. I also met our trainers and took their inputs. After consequent meetings with them, a group meeting was organized which included me, my manager, client manager and the Head of Safety and Security Dept. My manager accepted that he was under the pressure of clients due to less productivity and used to force the blue colored employee to work in risky work condition. After the meeting, he was dismissed with immediate effect and I was promoted to AREA SAFETY MANAGER.