First Time Refusal

Well I refused to do unsafe work for the first time in my seven years as a Plumber. For the last week or so we have been working hard at trying to get a large roof top gas line installed. the work consisted of building pieces on the ground and hauling them up on top of the roof via scissor lift. for those that don't know what a scissor lift is it is a platform that extends vertically by the use of hydraulic telescoping shafts. Anyways this was all good until wednesday came along with strong winds and blowing snow. The lift is only rated to be able to sustain 45km/h winds and if you remember wednesday the wind gusts were suppose be able to get up to 80km/h. So under that set of circumstances I refused to use the lift to transport the materals which really slowed down the work. I have never before refused unsafe work, I tend to have the do what it takes to get it done sort of attitude but this time was different. Nothing really negative came out of the refusal but you could tell that people are not use to getting a refusal of unsafe work.