Storms Will Judge Your Leadership … Not Your Intentions...

Journeymen… Foremen… General Foremen…

Storm work is where truth shows up uninvited.

Not in meetings. Not in policies. Not in after-action reports.

In the dark. In the wind. In the fatigue. At the moment, someone trusts your call with their life.

Storms do not care how experienced you are. They do not care how confident you sound. They do not care what you meant to do.

They expose what you allowed...

And right now … too many leaders are allowing gambling disguised as tradition.

Journeymen … Your Hands Are the Last Gate

The moment you topped out, excuses expired.

You don’t get to assume. You don’t get to rely on memory. You don’t get to say “we already checked it” and move on.

ET&D Best Practices exist because people died doing exactly that.

You test. You verify. You confirm the absence of voltage using layers.

A Personal Voltage Detector is one of those layers.

If you’re not wearing one on storm work, that’s not confidence. That’s negligence wrapped in ego.

And when something goes wrong … it won’t just be on you.

Foremen … What You Tolerate Could Kill Someone

Stop pretending this is about personal choice.

Storms are not the place for optional discipline.

If your crew isn’t running PVDs, that’s not a crew issue. That’s your standard … or lack of one.

You don’t need another briefing. You don’t need another reminder.

You need the backbone to enforce what already exists.

Your people will follow what you enforce … not what you say. Every shortcut you ignore becomes permission. Every eye you turn away becomes policy.

Storms don’t forgive soft leadership.

General Foremen … You Own the Outcome

This doesn’t stop below you.

You decide what tools are normal. You decide what’s enforced and what’s optional. You decide whether layers are expected … or debated.

If PVDs aren’t baked into your storm response, that is a leadership choice. And leadership choices have consequences.

ET&D Best Practices talk about defense in depth because storms remove the margin completely.

If your system relies on everything going right … it will fail. And it will fail on someone else’s body.

The Right of Way Is Where God Tests Assumptions

ROW is where chaos lives.

Backfeed from generators. Temporary feeds stacked on temporary decisions. Induced voltage nobody talked about. Parallel lines doing exactly what physics says they will do.

Electricity doesn’t care who you are. It doesn’t care what your job title says.

If your people are in the ROW … they are exposed.

A PVD doesn’t negotiate. It warns. It alerts. It tells the truth whether you want to hear it or not.

On storms … that truth saves lives.

Why I Trust the SAFEGUARD Compass

I don’t endorse gear. I trust it … or I don’t talk about it.

The SAFEGUARD Compass has earned that trust because it works where storms live.

Continuous monitoring. Audible and visual alerts that cut through fatigue. Protection that stays on the worker … not sitting in a truck while assumptions are made.

This does not replace rubber, grounding, or job briefings. It reinforces them when humans are tired and distracted.

That’s what layers are for.

Yes, some of the settings are a little annoying, and they need to be fixed… I think the new one has worked on some of these issues.

And No … I’m Not Selling Anything

Let’s kill that noise now.

I am not affiliated with SAFEGUARD. No money. No partnership. No incentive.

This comes from field use. From storms. From first-hand experience.

I don’t recommend tools I wouldn’t put on my own people.

Why the PRO Version Matters … Even Before I’ve Used It

I want to be clear about something.

I have not personally used the SAFEGUARD PRO version yet.

But after seeing what it brings to the table … it will be in my toolbox ASAP.

Because leadership isn’t just prevention. It’s response when prevention fails.

The SAFEGUARD PRO brings storms into the modern world.

Location reporting. Fall recognition. Arc flash detection. Man-down alerts. Data when someone can’t speak.

That’s not surveillance. That’s stewardship.

When someone goes down, leadership is measured by how fast help arrives … not how clean the report sounds later.

Storms Will Ask One Question

Did you stack the odds … or did you gamble?

Journeymen … your habits decide what others think is normal. Foremen … your enforcement decides what gets followed. General Foremen … your expectations decide who goes home.

Storms don’t care about tradition. They don’t care about pride. They don’t care how tough you think you are.

They expose leadership.

If you’re not stacking layers, you’re rolling dice with people’s lives. If you’re not normalizing PVDs, you’re behind reality.

If this makes you uncomfortable … good. It should.

Because discomfort is cheaper than funerals...

Bring your people home… No Excuses…

That’s the standard.

Anything less is criminal…

~Kevin | Lineman Bull$hit Academy™

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