Own the Equipment

Pass is 80%. This is open-book — use the academy, not hope.

1. The ownership standard is:

Someone else will get it. That's why we have labor.If you took it out, it goes back. If you got it dirty, you clean it. If it can fall, you strap it — every time.Only when the boss is on site.For the new hires. The veterans already know.

2. Prep equipment and the vac on a trailer are about $250,000+. A short hop with no straps is:

Fine. Heavy stuff doesn't move.The same as any other hop. Gravity does not care about two miles. It does not roll until it is tied.The driver's problem only.Covered by insurance, so speed wins.

3. You see the vac unstrapped and someone wants to roll. You:

Get in. Don't be that guy.Stop the truck. Help tie it. Same authority as dew-point stop-work.Text Eric after it wrecks so he knows you noticed.Assume the driver has a system.

4. A high-profile customer is at the dock. The first application is:

The resin. Image is marketing's job.The door going up — clean, undented, strapped equipment, PPE, a lead who looks in charge.Whatever is fastest. They know construction is messy.The quote they already signed, so the dock doesn't matter.

5. A tool breaks on your shift. You:

Put it back in the bin. Next crew can deal.Tag it, photo it, tell the lead the same hour. Honest breaks get fixed. Hidden ones ambush people.Take it home and try to repair it this weekend.Say it was like that when you got it, at return, for the first time.

6. Cleanup and the last 5% (cove, edges, holidays, tape) are:

For the laborer after the real work.Part of the install. The plant lives with the edge for ten years. Lead last out.Optional if we are behind.What punch is for.

7. Raising the bar on equipment and details matters because:

Eric likes speeches.It frees Eric's hours and sales hours to win the next plant — which is how more work, better hours, and incentives actually show up.Insurance requires a poster.Only the new hires need it.

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