In all my years in manufacturing, the subject of Personal Protective Equipment caused more debate and dissension than you might imagine. What you have to wear, when you have to wear it, if you can have facial hair, your obligation to care for the equipment or share the costs are all topics that sometime even…
Tag Archive: prevention
3 Beach Vacation Tips
I can’t help it, safety takes no vacation. Though I do take vacation, I can’t help but notice what people do to compromise their safety, both in the immediate and long term. So while sitting under a nice canvas umbrella today, my mind nagged for this post. I know that the people I saw know…
Let’s Vote On Safety
I’m not a high volume traveler, but in the last 6 months I have traveled on a more frequent basis. And by travel I mean fly from Atlanta to about three other places with some regularity. I have the flights I would like to get on, and the ones that I try to avoid. And…
5 Steps for Protecting Those Fingers
In some industries, you can walk into a facility and within ten minutes find at least one person that is missing part of a hand. A thumb, a fingertip, or even several fingers. I play instruments. Keyboard and guitar primarily. Loss of even one part of one finger changes everything. But even day-to-day living is…
7 Things That Require Special Attention at the End Of the Year
Our neighborhood has our version of the Griswalds. They really decorate for Halloween, but as soon as November rolls around, they begin converting their decorations to Christmas themes. Rain or shine, on the weekend they have ladders up and wires run all over the place. They do seem to take their time to do it…
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 driving. In the world of industrial safety, companies who excel do…
The Moment of Choice
In this blog I try and present ideas that would give people an opportunity to discuss options, to make choices. Everything we do is decisionable, and we are frequently on autopilot. But if we learn to make the best decisions with each action we take, when the moment of decision is quick we will have…
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 choices for your safety. Here are a few items, some…
6 Ways to Safeguard Your Eyes
Though my eyesight has never been perfect, I appreciate the value of seeing clearly. When I first got glasses at age 14, it was the first time I realized that I was supposed to see better than I did. Now, in some odd twist of aging eyes, my nearsightedness is improving somewhat. I worked in…
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 conditions. Heat extremes, cold extremes, snow extremes, rain extremes,…
