Rob Ellis and Jessica Di Sabatino lost a son and brother in 1999 to a workplace accident: David was 18 and it was his second day on the job. Rob and Jess have been on the lookout for Safety Champions ever since. This is their blog.

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Dumb and Dumber on YouTube

Submitted by heather on Fri, 11/14/2008 - 10:58.

Who doesn't love to laugh at a crazy homemade video on YouTube: a cat doing the jig, a sportscaster making an embarrasing blunder, a young guy.... driving his forklift backwards on two wheels??!!

That's right, an Australian 20-year-old thought it would be a hoot to drive his hoon forklift at top speed backwards with the rear wheels off the ground, performing burnouts, and crashing into a concrete pipe...

That was dumb. Deadly dumb.

He then proudly loaded the video onto YouTube... no, really.

That was dumber still.

Anyone but unions listening to workplace safety statements?

Submitted by Rob on Fri, 05/30/2008 - 14:42.

Wise words from one of our favourite safety bloggers: Kevin Jones, of the SafetyatWork blog out of Australia, just wrote about "Safety, Whistleblowers and Media Disinterest." He blogged that he's discouraged by the lack of mainstream media coverage on government support of workplace safety, but understands the reason:


yeah I don't think that law Munro's Safety Apparel 11/04/2009 - 16:02 In my work experience, small Fred Rose 09/10/2009 - 17:57 Hi, Morgan,Absolutely we'll heather 06/01/2009 - 12:52 I’ve been working in the Sylvain Grenier 06/01/2009 - 12:45	View more videos	Workplace Injury is an Inevitable Part of Life: Agree - no one or no company is perfect - accidents will always be a part of society. Somewhat agree - accidents will always be a part of society but we can work on reducing the most tragic accidents. Disagree - every accident is preventable.