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Give your (Hard Hat-less) Head a Shake!

Got safety gear? How about you... [here's a thought].. wear it!?! I read an almost unbelievable statistic today: 89 percent of safety professionals polled at the 2008 National Safety Council Congress have observed workers failing to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) when they should have been.

Some Days Are Bloodier Than Others

I love it when I find great resources that promote the cause of workplace safety.  I just came across the new campaign that Work Safe Alberta is promoting.  

They have developed a campaign that is getting lots of press... I love the videos because:

Dumb and Dumber on YouTube

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.

Do Teachers Need "High Risk Pay"?

I used to be an inner city elementary school teacher.  I loved my job.  I loved seeing students' faces light up when they learned something new and I enjoyed going to work everyday knowing that I had the opportunity to make a difference in the world.  

Bull Riding, Sunday Afternoons & Safety

So it's Sunday afternoon - my favorite time of the week to doze off on my couch while sluggishly flipping from station to station.  Usually, I end up watching some weird public television program that is just boring enough to let me have a great nap.  Today however, I couldn't find anything that caught my attention. I watched the end of a football game that the Tennesse Titans easily won and then I stumbled across a bull riding show from LasVegas.  Maybe I'm not very cultured - but I have never really seen a bull riding show.
 

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