Useless safety departments
The one problem with companies today is the safety department , they people they hire have no knowledge of the trade, so fellas with little or no experience tend to commit unsafe acts and don't really have a clue that they are unsafe. For example. I recently observed two young Journeyman jumper out a 3 phase runoff to install permanent taps. They allowed their centre phase jumper to contact the road phase that had rubber cover on it. The framing allowed this to happen but there was a span guy above with a fibreglass rod in it. When I took them aside to explain that crossphasing a redhead , even when protected with rubber, was an extremely bad practice and a good way to die, the response was the foreman said it was ok. Foreman was a 26 year old former streetlight lineman with little to no line experience. My response to the young lineman , " your listening to someone who has no clue himself". The safety department was useless , no one with knowledge, but they could quote the rule book!
It scares me that this blind leading the blind is going to get decent young lineman killed.