I guarantee you if you watch 90% of the equipment operators out there, they never look back either. When your in a place like that kid is working, or on a site in the middle of nowhere, where no one is expected to be close, and anyone watching you work should know enough to keep out of the way, all looking back every time does is make you spend a lot of time looking over your shoulder. Yes, it should be done, but, like I said, watch 90% of the good, experienced operators, and I guarantee you will find they never even take a glance.
Working around big equipment since I was young that's one thing Dad taught me early on, DO NOT RELY ON THE OPERATOR TO LOOK OUT FOR YOU....The equipment is BIG, you are small (adult of child), so the true responsibility to stay out of the way of the equipment is entirely on you, regardless of what OSHA, MSHA, and any of the other regulatory bodies tell you how it should be in the legal sense. I've always looked at it like this, legal sense be dammed, I enjoy living too much to rely on anyone else to look out for me since the legal thing makes absolutely no difference to me if I'm 6 feet under.
That's one reason I've always taught my daughter, and the little boy I helped raise before I got married, to never get close to either the front or rear of any machine when it's in operation. Instead get ahead of, and off to the side of the machine and wave your arms or something to get the operators attention and be 100% sure the machine has stopped and the operator acknowledges your presence before even getting close to the machine.
I was running a T190 Bobcat the other night in the dark, so I couldn't have seen anything behind me wether I looked or not. So, when my daughter came down to get me, she did exactly what I had taught her to do, just as she has done many times before. Once I stopped and acknowledged her she came closer and the rest is history.
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