Your personal safety is determined one decision at a time. Sometimes you are dependent on the decisions of others. Other drivers, your doctor, the guy who puts new brakes in your car. But how does ...
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Tag Archive: awareness
6 Safety Ideas For Your Wallet
My interest in safety began when I experienced a "near-hit" incident early in my engineering career, and when I realized how many of the equipment operators I had known were missing some of their digits. At that time of my life, I ...
Texting With Integrity
Driving is hazardous. It also can be time-consuming, particularly if you live far from work or take a crowded commute. And as I pointed out on my list last week, people sometimes compromise their safety in the name of expediency - they text while ...
5 Reasons We Aren’t Always As Safe As We Could Be
As an advocate for personal safety, the tools I use most often are awareness of possibilities and appreciation of risk. If you make yourself aware of what could go wrong in a situation, and weigh that against the risks involved, you can make the best ...
Do You Motivate With Fear or Reward?
I like a good safety incentive as much as the next person. Although I haven't kept them all, I would guess I have received dozens of items ranging from imprinted pens, flashlights, and portfolios to jackets, gift cards and parking spaces. Each one of them was ...
Are You a Magoo?
One of my favorite cartoon characters is Mr. Magoo. A nearsighted senior citizen, Mr. Magoo’s best-known work is probably his portrayal of Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. In his cartoon series, his nearsightedness is the basis of continual gags, as he walks from ...
Weather Safety
I've lived in contrasting weather regions in the US. I've lived in the midwest and in upstate New York, where I have seen long, cold winters with over one hundred inches of snow. I've lived in the south in areas that are impacted substantially by hurricane ...
A Motive For Safety
A friend of mine recently complained that the phrase "Our employees are our most valuable asset" is among the most overused in business today. After thinking about that, along with the references to "human capital", I had to disagree. It appears overused, but in reality it ...
5 Things to Pay Attention to After Major Family Events
I used to participate in community theater, maybe even obsessively. When you do this, there is a period of about 2-3 weeks that is incredibly busy with rehearsals, line and staging memorization, getting costumes in order, and trying to remember to do your regular life duties ...
Safety and Celebrations – Caution Rules
My son is getting married this weekend. We have had the good fortune of seeing him grow with his fiancee over the last three years. And as with his older sister and her choice for marriage, we believe that they will do well in life together. With ...
