Rick’s Top 3 Reasons to Work Safely
(Thanks to Rick Carpenter for his feisty tailgate safety meetings)
#1. You can’t pull your pants up without your hands. The #1 reason to be safe is to avoid losing your personal independence.
#2. Picture yourself with a cardboard sign in front of Safeway. Disability checks don’t cover rent.
#3. The life you ruin may not be your own. You are a role model, a partner, a member of a team – whether you like it or not. Someone is learning from you, someone is behind you.
Rick’s 10 Easy Ways to Work Safely
#1. Don’t do stupid things. There is a special place in eternity for people who do stupid things like sticking a fork in a toaster or not tying off a ladder. Do you want to spend eternity with stupid people?
#2. If it hurts, don’t do it.
#3 Keep you anger away from the jobsite. Anger messes with your focus.
#4 Accident + positive drug test = no benefits. If you think it hurts to slice off your finger, try no finger and no disability or unemployment income because you tested positive. Get out your cardboard sign and head down to Safeway…
#5. Focus. Turn off the music, stop asking what time it is. Construction is repetitive and dangerous. Over time, you can make good money, have a boat and a nice truck – but only if you learn the secret to longevity in construction. Focus. Get focused, stay focused. Your day will go faster and you will expand your options.
#6 The OSHA Guy, The Fine, and The Unemployment Office. When your company gets fined for your foolishness, they risk going out of business. If they go out of business…get out the cardboard signs for you and your coworkers.
#7 Why is the truck in the kitchen? Because the brakes were bad. Tell your boss when the equipment neeeds work. It’s easier to fix the brakes than to fix the brakes, the kitchen, the truck, your broken arms…
#8 Real Men ask for directions. If you don’t know how to use it ask for directions. When you know, share it with the next guy.
#9. Flush when you’re done. You’re an adult, clean up the jobsite. Mama isn’t coming behind you to bend down your nails.
#10 Dress for the job. You wanna wear tennies or sandals? Great – get a lifeguard job. Wear sandals in construction and plan to buy shoes one at a time.
…Surely, you’re not serious!
Yes, I’m serious, and don’t call me Shirley. Construction is a high-hazard industry. If you don’t know someone who has been hurt, ask the guy next to you. Safety is not abstract – it’s personal. It’s you, your family, and your friend’s family. Focus, and look out for the other guy.
(This was on the wall of the old shop, just thought I’d share it. Heck, make up your own and add to the list…)
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Who knew common sense could be so funny ?
Great list !!!
Thanks Darcy.
Now if I can just remember all that, and recite it, I can become a genius in everyone else's eyes.
;)
The person you offend today, may have been your best friend tomorrow
I was hoping some others here could make up and add their own to the list.
Thanks for the bump.
...more shop commandments than safety rules, but here goes:
Thou shalt not covet my tools.
Thou shalt not bear false criticism of my work.
I am the Lord and Master here, let no strangers enter.
Remember, I don't work Sundays.
good ones, too!
Do not look at laser with remaining eye.
do not place remaining hand in the path of the sawblade.
When that little voice tells you to be scared, listen carefully.
You cannot fly, only land.
Face breaks before windshield.
do not wear speed lace boots when you are more than one inch off the ground.
All wires are always hot.
All pipes contain pressure at all times.
If that sammich is green, give it away.
Chunky coffee is not a "good thing".
And finally, never put anything smaller than your elbow in yer ear.
oh, and never eat anything bigger than your head.
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Repairs, Remodeling, Restorations.
Think twice, don't get cut.
Foolishness is for fools, leave the practical jokes for idiots on another jobsite.
Very good!
Keep 'em coming!
Throwout all clients and visitors before making those tricky cuts in hi-dollar materials.
Turn scaffold boards on edge or over before leaving so they wont be wet or frosty.
Go ahead and bring a box of staples with u cuz sure enuf theres only two left in the gun.
Fine people who leave things on top of step ladders.
All good but he ladder one is my favorite.
Save speeding for the highway.
Rushing to finish the job creates hazards for you and co-workers, and chances are you'll have to do it over again anyway after you've screwed it up by trying to get too much done in too little time.