Earthquake safety is more a matter of what you do before the quake to make dealing with the aftermath easier. Also to make it less likely that things will squish you during the quake.
I not only vote for this, I’m going to volunteer to do the next safety meeting where I work and play this.
Following Klaus the forklift-driver:
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And seriously: The Naval Office for Safety has a photo of the week demonstrating safety rules (as well as common sense) being disregarded.
There are also some slide-shows on how to prevent danger.
Think ahead,antisipate danger in certain situations.Learn to identify situations of danger.Use the hand rail…Lol…Take as many breaks as you need if your back is bothering you…Lol…Have a contest for saftey.Spill something,your out.Accident,your out,At the end of the year have a “Safest Person of the Year award”
Somewhere around the internet I’m sure you can find the “after” photo from a soldier who used a .50BMG machine gun round as a hammer and blew a sizable portion of his hand off in the process.
Other briefing topics I’ve seen in my job have included winter driving, pedestrian safety, thanksgiving cooking safety (deep fryers and frozen turkeys don’t mix), rainy weather safety (ahh, the time that I slipped on a wet floor and broke my finger within days of being appointed the building safety NCO…), hot weather safety, chem gear safety (both for hot weather AND cold weather!), and vehicle safety (never back up a government-owned vehicle without a spotter, never back up the vehicle if you can’t SEE your spotter, and the spotter damned well needs to make sure he isn’t backing himself up against a wall or something just in case the driver ignores step #2… had to hear about a firefighter getting killed that way last year…)
Oh, and general office safety is always good. “Lift with the knees, not with the back” is a commonly ignored thing that is usually worth briefing.
If you ever need to stand on stepstools, occasionally verify that the rubber underneath them is still there. They get worn out and the stools can become slippery. I had a coworker break an arm in 4 places by falling off one of these things.
Also, a simple reporting thing for observed hazards… I also know someone who wasn’t seriously hurt, but still took a pretty bad fall when tripping over a torn bit of carpet in the office.
Also the plastic chair mats…sometimes the corners roll up or they get cracked and they can pose more of a hazard than you might think. My mom tripped over one at work four years ago and fractured both femurs! :eek:
Me too. Kitchen, dining room, bathroom, and I am drawing a blank on the fourth.
Regards,
Shodan
You should recommend this even more hygenic method!
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Watch your head, there…
Moving to IMHO.
Maybe on the dangers of respirable silica? I wrote a whole section of a safety manual for an engineering firm on that topic. Remember: If it’s silica, it’s not just dust!
We had an escape drill here at the zoo recently - well, we let four ferrets go in the classroom and then practiced catching them with nets. It was hilarious, adorable, and very, very educational.
When I saw the OP, I literally laughed out loud. At the bar where I used to hang out, “having a Safety Meeting” was code for going on the back porch to smoke weed. Now that I think about it, nobody ever got hurt during or after those meetings.
This is an excellent safety video:
We caught the last bit of a “Drew Carey Show” episode last night were Drew had done an office safety video for presentation to the high mucky-mucks. Hey, I found the video! (The funny stuff is over at 2:05.)