The Safety Presentation

Aesop101

I was asked by our HR manager to give a safety presentation for the office. I thought that was good but was handed a scripted piece of paper on what to say. Hmmmm. That doesn't sound like me and to be honest dryer than the Sahara and apparently from paper that came from the Sahara before it was a desert.

So I emailed the HR manager and asked if I could expand that to a couple of other timely safety issues. She said I could.

I start off with the one the HR manager gave me. It was about lighting and glare, protecting the eyes. Most worthy except at one more point it said to reduce glare put a manilla folder on top of the monitor to shadow the screen. I turned, looked at the LED flat panel and said, exactly when was this written?! The office laughed.

Then I moved on to the topic of moving chairs. I kid you not I was in a safety meeting where there were two near misses by a guy moving a chair. First after he picked the chair up he almost hit someone in the head and then because he couldn't see where he was going he almost tripped. I cringed at this. Then I grabbed a chair and demonstrated the safe way of moving a chair. That is simply drag it behind you and if someone is in the way you ask them to move.

Next came a very personal experience. I'm an overweight accountant that sits most of the day. Turns out that somehow these two factors contributed a torn meniscus. That is very very painful. It hurt to the bone. After some physical therapy I learned I needed to increase the strength of the hamstring muscles to pull my knee cap in place. Wow, never thought of that and never thought this would be an issue for me. At one time I could leg press over 1,000 lbs. Of course I'm not a spring chicken either.

I passed this information on through the presentation. Which by the way is all women except me. I told them while this happened to me women actually get more knee injuries. They somewhat rebuffed that. I then told them my daughter ran cross country and track and told me this. They took note then.

Overall I got some good feedback and a standing ovation. Okay, they were already standing but still. LOL

lessismoreohio

As someone who has been a professional safety manager for 30 years, I'll say that it sounds like you did a wonderful job with your safety meeting. Timely, relevant topics.

Aesop101

lessismoreohio wrote: »

As someone who has been a professional safety manager for 30 years, I'll say that it sounds like you did a wonderful job with your safety meeting. Timely, relevant topics.

Where I work they take safety very seriously as they should.