A Korr apprentice manual for working safely under heavy gravity, industrial heat, pressure, and the authority of experienced crews.
An apprentice is present to learn the work, not to prove that injury can be endured. High gravity, pressure, heat, and suspended weight will provide enough danger without anybody adding unnecessary tests.
Inspect personal gear before the shift. Check the pressure collar, seals, gauge, gloves, boot grip, eye protection, and every fastening on the tool harness. Damage found before work is a repair. Damage hidden until after work begins is a hazard for the whole crew.
Inspect the site next. Identify the loaded lines, hot surfaces, vent direction, emergency doors, safe standing areas, and nearest route out. Ask which systems may start automatically. Never assume a silent machine is without power or pressure.
The crew lead states the work order and assigns each hand. The apprentice repeats their task and stop condition. If the task cannot be repeated clearly, the order has not been understood. Pride is not a substitute for confirmation.
Training load should increase in controlled steps. A worker who can lift or brace a weight once may not be able to hold it through an entire operation. Use mechanical support. Rotate positions. Rest before shaking, dizziness, heat confusion, or joint failure makes the decision for you.
Every worker may call a stop for an observed hazard. The call should name the danger when possible, but an apprentice does not need a completed engineering argument before stepping away from a failing support. The senior worker checks the condition before work resumes.
Tools are repaired more often than replaced because a known tool has a history the crew understands. Record every repair, changed limit, and substituted part. Respect for a family tool does not require using it after it becomes unsafe. Preserving the handle while replacing a cracked head is still preservation.
Morcant Below is honored by honest labor and maintenance done properly. Deliberate neglect is not a test of faith. A preventable injury does not improve the work, the worker, or the god receiving the prayer.
At the end of the shift, report faults before reporting output. A smaller amount of sound work can continue tomorrow. A larger amount produced by a damaged crew and an unrecorded crack becomes somebody else's emergency.
