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Greetings, this podcast recorded while on the road in San Jose, California. This week I’d like to share an article I wrote called “Dangers of Distracted Drivers: The Science Explained” that was published 20 July 2010 in my column for Canadian Occupational Safety.The published article can either be found at http://www.cos-mag.com or under Insights at www.ProActSafety.com.
I hope you enjoy the audio podcast this week. If you would like to download or play on demand our other podcasts, please visit the ProAct Safety’s podcast website at: http://www.safetycultureexcellence.com
Greetings, this podcast recorded while on the road in Manchester, England. For this week I’d like to share an article I wrote called “Multitasking Myths and Misconceptions” that was published 04 June 2010 in my column for Canadian Occupational Safety.The published article can either be found at http://www.cos-mag.com or under Insights at www.ProActSafety.com.
I hope you enjoy the podcast this week. If you would like to download or play on demand our other podcasts, please visit the ProAct Safety’s podcast website at: http://www.safetycultureexcellence.com
Greetings, this podcast recorded on the road in St. Louis Missouri. This week I would like to share a fun article I wrote, that was published by Canadian Occupational Safety on the 23rd of February 2010. If you would like to see the actual article it can be found at: http://www.cos-mag.com/201002231817/safety/safety-stories/safety-culture-goes-beyond-work.html. You can also find it (and all our others) by visiting www.ProActSafety.com and click on the Insights tab. I hope you enjoy!
Greetings everyone from my home in The Woodlands, Texas. This year I begin to not only promise to provide weekly audio files to help you improve safety; I will be publishing monthly videos as well. We will keep these videos under 10 minutes in length so they can be used in quick meetings. This month I ask the question, do you have a personal safety focus for 2010? Many of us make New Year’s Resolutions, but what will we focus on in 2010 to help us stay safe?
I would like to encourage you to consider watching what you are standing on, climbing on and walking on this year. In many countries the number one cause of accidental death in the homes, are slips, trips and falls. There are two life precautions that can help prevent this from occurring to you: Eyes on path/work and Footing. Below are some examples.
1.Eyes on path/work (keep eyes in direction of travel and task)
a.When walking keep eyes on path of travel. (i.e. looking behind while backing up)
b.When operating mobile equipment always scan ahead for pedestrians & obstructions.
c.Maintain focus on surroundings, body position, and equipment when performing a task
2.Footing (stay on designated walkways/3-point contact on stairs)
a.When walking up/down stairs use handrails and take one step at a time.
b.When climbing up/down ladders use 3-point contact and keep body facing toward ladder
c.Maintain 3-point contact when (getting on/off a equipment)
What are some other examples you can think of? Consider sharing these with a group of people and ask them to identify examples of how these precautions could help them remain safe.
Thank you again for tuning in and let’s keep 2010 a safe year!
Greetings from Toronto, Canada and show number 84! This week I’d like to talk about what we call a Personal Safety Focus. The idea is: Do you have things that go beyond rules, policies and procedures that you can focus your people on that minimizes or prevents their exposure to risk? Now obviously if you do not have the basics in place, those three things should receive priority attention. I’m of the belief that safety has been truly successful when it can be taken with people, when it is portable. When we only think about safety as on the job, we miss out on helping our people where they are more likely today to get injured. Is most countries, it is not at work. When safety is successful that means that it was interesting and helpful enough and caused people to share the strategies with their families. If you are truly effective in safety, the people you’ll help the most are people you might not ever meet, their family members, and their neighbors. Do your people relay your safety messages? I hope you enjoy this topic, here we go!
Greetings from Sheffield England. This week we will conclude the second part of the series by listening in to Terry’s Seven Steps that an organization can go through, taking what they have accomplished at work and transfer it off the job. We hope you can take some of these ideas and start sharing them with your employees.
Hello everyone from Houston Texas. Yes, I am currently in the path of Hurricane Ike. The beach community (Galveston) south of me, started to flood last night. This was seen as an indicator of things to come as the hurricane is (as I type this an hour or so away of making landfall. I would like to first say thank you. I have received several emails expressing concern for my family and me. The emails are very kind and my family and I thank you for your concern and prayers.
I live in a community, Northwest of Houston so I feel my family will be safe taking shelter in our home. As I type this and listen to all of the recommendations from the different news agencies, I realized that some of the recommendations might introduce new risk that others might not recognize, amongst the chaos of the imminent hurricane. I would like to share a tip with all who might ever be in the path of a major storm such as the one. Many recommend filling your bathtub full of water so you will have water (for many reasons) should it be cut off or otherwise inaccessible. I highly encourage all to be aware that doing so (while a great preventative measure) they have just created a drowning opportunity in their homes, if they have small children/toddlers. Please be constantly aware of the location of the children in relation to the water, as things start to intense.
Accidental death is the number one cause of death in Americans ages 1-44 years of age (-source National Safety Council). Of all the major things that are out there (Like hurricanes), it is the avoidable mundane that harms us most frequently. I hope that others in Ike’s path has already thought of this.
If not a tragedy could be avoided by a few key precautions and the awareness of newly introduced risk.
Thank you and to my fellow Houstonians, Stay Safe! Shawn Galloway – Cypress Texas
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