Have you ever seen the Wizard of Oz? It is a classic and I highly recommend it, even as an adult first-time viewer. But the theme of the movie can relate to the safety profession. During my internship in the summer of 1992, I worked with a great safety professional, Garth Newman. Garth was preparing for retirement and he told me I was his “last project”; I was not sure what that meant in the beginning but by the end of that summer I knew exactly what he meant. On our first flight out to Montana, he told me… The Safety profession is like the wizard of OZ. We have people who:
