{"id":10397,"date":"2007-01-29T08:15:06","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T15:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/01\/29\/good-safety-is-smart-safety.html"},"modified":"2007-01-29T08:15:06","modified_gmt":"2007-01-29T15:15:06","slug":"good_safety_is_smart_safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/29\/good_safety_is_smart_safe.html","title":{"rendered":"Good safety is smart safety"},"content":{"rendered":"

My company is extremely safety-conscious, sometimes to the point of (at first glance) absurdity. Given that we’re an engineering firm and there are plenty of opportunities for folks on projects to get hurt or killed, I can’t really ding them for that emphasis. <\/p>\n

One thing we do is start every meeting (including most conference calls) with a safety moment, a reminder, a tidbit of info to help create a better, safer workplace (field or office) or home. It’s usually pretty interesting or useful info. <\/p>\n

But sometimes …<\/p>\n

For a big project review today, I got a preview of the PowerPoint presentation. The person doing this is one of my sharpest employees. On the first (non-title) slide, there was a safety tip about Purell skin sanitizer, which is alcohol-based, and some rather gruesome photos showing what happened to someone who had just Purelled his hands and then went out for a smoke (hands shielding the match, not fully rubbed-in sanitizer, hands burst into flames, horrible burns).<\/p>\n

Since I know some folks who live and die by Purell, I wanted to look up more info so I could forward it to them (non-smokers, but, hey, safety first). And, so, of course, I ended up on this Snopes page<\/a>, which debunks the whole thing.<\/p>\n

Which goes to provide two lessons\/tips for today:<\/p>\n

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  1. \nEven smart people can get fooled by something that sounds plausible and that they don’t verify, especially when told go out and find something interesting to talk about.<\/li>\n
  2. \nGood safety is smart<\/em> safety. You can only effectively defend against so many threats. Make sure the threats you’re focusing on are real ones.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    My company is extremely safety-conscious, sometimes to the point of (at first glance) absurdity. 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