Narrative:

We have been having lighting issues over at the hangar spots with no lights. Company has put only 2 light towers out to provide limited lighting over some of these spots. Supervisors have been asking employees turn on light tower equipment who have not been trained on this piece of equipment. Supervisors who are not trainers have been going as far as to show employees how to turn on equipment when employees say they don't know how to use the equipment. Last week; a supervisor said on the radio that 'no one touch one of the light towers due to the fuel leaking'. Every employee who use equipment should be sign off on that equipment and know how to do a user check on that equipment. Not just shown how to turn equipment on. If someone went and electrocuted themselves by not knowing how to do a user check on the equipment or turn on the equipment with the fuel leaking and the light tower caught on fire or even themselves on fire from leaking fuel can end up in a bad result from injury to even death.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Ground personnel reported lighting issues and training issues resulted in a safety hazard.

Narrative: We have been having lighting issues over at the hangar spots with no lights. Company has put only 2 light towers out to provide limited lighting over some of these spots. Supervisors have been asking employees turn on light tower equipment who have not been trained on this piece of equipment. Supervisors who are not trainers have been going as far as to show employees how to turn on equipment when employees say they don't know how to use the equipment. Last week; a supervisor said on the radio that 'no one touch one of the light towers due to the fuel leaking'. Every employee who use equipment should be sign off on that equipment and know how to do a user check on that equipment. Not just shown how to turn equipment on. If someone went and electrocuted themselves by not knowing how to do a user check on the equipment or turn on the equipment with the fuel leaking and the light tower caught on fire or even themselves on fire from leaking fuel can end up in a bad result from injury to even death.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.