Workplace safety is a concept that involves creating a safe working atmosphere, securing and safeguarding the lives of the employees or workers. Workplace safety is of prime importance since there are professions, which involve risks that could turn out to be fatal. There are people who are in close proximity to huge electricity flows, deep […]
“Don’t make mountains out of mole hills”. Good advice and how many of us knew that we could actually control the outcome? Many small things influence our lives, and not paying attention to them can sometimes have disastrous consequences —especially when it comes to safety. Fortunately, most of us have been trained to keep an
Sports cars competing over race courses marked with racing stripes. People who race on the job are marked with cuts, bruises, and bandages. There are places to race and places not to race. Speed belongs on the race course, not in the workplace. Almost everyone has been guilty of speeding through a job. We forget, until
We can get there, but it takes commitment…10,000% Commitment – 100% of the people complying 100% of the time! Are you on board?
MANY THANKS to one of the finest safety professionals… Safety Wayne for sharing this. Mark was walking home from school one day when he noticed the boy ahead of him had tripped and dropped all of the books he was carrying, along with two sweaters, a baseball bat, a glove and a small tape recorder.
WHO AM I? I am more powerful than the combined armies of the world. I have destroyed more than all wars of the nations. I am more deadly than bullets or missiles, and I have wrecked more homes and jobs than the mightiest siege of guns. I steal billions every year. I spare no one.
The word safety refers to our freedom from danger, injury and damage, and to our personal security. The word safety has been used so often that many of us may think of it as a “Preaching Word”, or a word that forces us to alter our ways or change bad habits. Instead, when we hear
SAFETY EXCUSE #1: Prior Experience & Success Will Guarantee Your Safety • A construction worker who’s driving a nail without eye protection says, “I haven’t been hit by a nail yet. Besides I don’t miss—much.” • Another worker without a hardhat in a construction area says, “I’ve been working here 20 years and I’ve never
Some mistakes last forever—as Arnold discovered after he lost two fingers to the machine he had operated for seven years. On June 5, 1989, Arnold violated two of his company’s safety rules: he cheated the guard when he adjusted the coolant line on the machine and he also failed to follow the prescribed lockout/tag-out procedure.
A man by the name of Louis Binstock once said, “Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success. ” Simply put, taking shortcuts only results in success for a short duration of time. A shortcut is a quicker or easier way to do a job without following
Why do some companies succeed in safety and other’s do not?Is it due to the high tech brand new equipment they bought?Could it be they are aliens from a planet that is strange?Or is it something else that brings about their change?****************Exec’s of these companies upon hearing our ponderWould raise up their arm and point
Thinking that it’s “only 120 volts” or 208 volts or 480 volts or…”It’s only low voltage.” Okay, I’ll admit that you can have an open casket with a low-voltage hit, but you’ll still be dead. The only difference between low and high voltage is how fast it can kill you. High voltage kills instantly; low
