Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Flex Day Field Trip

Answer one of the above questions and add two points of observation or reflection from the day abouts the two places we visited (Sterling Styles factory and Up2Date apparel office). Also you can compose a question that you may have from our flex day adventures. You should post these three items on your blog page.
1) answer a question 2
) make two observations or reflections (or write your own questions that you may have)
Three things in total!
part one
Q5) What do you think the level of safety is here? What makes you think this?
I feel that the safety for the factory was pretty good. That is because there was very good lighting that was bright and would help if it were a rainy day. Also the girls did have their hair covered but some of them were wearing chains. I thought they might get in the way and if they did it could hurt them seriously. Also only some of the people were wearing a mask for protection from the dust despite the fact that dust travels around.
Another positive would be that all the machinery was labeled and had set instructions on how to use it. That would prevent injuries. Also all the working area was marked with yellow tape so not only would the workers would keep safe so would the visitors. In the factory there was a brilliant machine that detected metal so the buyers would not get pricked with a needle if one might have not been taken out.
So I would give the safety of the factory and eight out of ten, ten being the highest.

part two
1) I observed that the workers were well taken care of.
2) I also saw that men got higher jobs then women

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Flex Day Quote

"There are offices that help the factories with marketing."