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Originally Posted by decker
Look at it this way, say your employed by a contractor as the site manager to build pressure piping for a plant site. Your behind schedule and have to take shortcuts to make sure it is done on time, you decide to not complete a pressure test on a portion of the job which will save you a couple days. This is against code which is a Law. They fire the plant up and a fitting on the portion you decided not to test blows up and injures a worker of the owner. Who do you think gets charged?
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If the company was aware that no pressure yest was performed, they would assume the responsibility but if the workers forged the report to indicate that the pressure test was performed, the people that decided not to perform the pressure test, and that forged the report would be liable. An employer does have some responsibility for his workers actions, but he is not entirely responsible for their actions., especially if the employees decide to deviate from the directions they are provided , and the employer is not made aware of the deviation.