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When The Training Became Real
Tuesday morning, while on storm, we were standing in a parking lot going through the host utility’s onboarding.
It was supposed to be routine.
Sign in. Listen to the expectations. Cover the hazards. Get everybody released and ready to go to work.
Then the utility representative conducting the onboarding suffered a medical emergency. One second he was standing there speaking to the group, and the next he crumpled to the pavement and lost consciousness.
What happened after that deserves to be recognized.
Nobody stood around waiting for somebody to take charge.
People moved.
Someone went after the AED.
Someone called 911.
Someone immediately began checking his vital signs.
Another person headed toward the entrance of the facility to flag down EMS and make sure they could get directly to us without wasting valuable time trying to figure out where the emergency was.
There wasn’t any chaos. There wasn’t any arguing. There wasn’t any confusion about titles, classifications, employers, or whose responsibility it was.
There were Union journeyman linemen, foremen, safety representatives, and others from different crews and different companies standing there together.
Most of them hadn’t worked together before.
But when a man hit the ground, they responded like they had.
That’s the part worth talking about.
We spend a lot of time sitting through first aid classes, CPR training, AED training, storm onboarding, job briefings, and emergency response discussions. We talk about who’s calling 911. We talk about who’s getting the AED. We talk about who’s meeting emergency responders at the gate.
Tuesday morning, all of that stopped being something written in a safety manual.
It became real.
Nobody knew they were about to be tested. Nobody had time to rehearse. Nobody had time to look around and wonder what everybody else was going to do.
They simply saw what needed to happen and did it.
That’s professionalism.
That’s preparedness.
That’s the culture of the IBEW and the Union movement.
It’s people from different backgrounds, different classifications, different contractors, and different responsibilities coming together when it matters most.
No ego.
No hesitation.
No waiting for permission.
Just Union people taking care of another human being when he needed them.
I’m proud of every person who responded Tuesday morning.
They represented the IBEW, the Union, this trade, and themselves exactly the way they should have.
That’s Brotherhood.
Not the word.
The action.
Together We Rise.
In Solidarity,
Kevin
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When The Training Became Real
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