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Here I am again! Now for something completely different...

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Shortcuts are rarely worth it...

This one comes to us from...I really don't know...some kind of warehouse apparently.

Anyway, if you look closely in the upper left of this tranquil scene, you will see Joe Employee going about his day. Working hard, trying to get his job (whatever that may be) done as quickly and efficiently.

What could be quicker to get from point A to point B then to hop across pallets of...whatever it is they store there?

Bet his Dentist appreciates the business...

Download the video HERE in .avi format

Edit: OK, for some reason the video is uploading upside down - must be gremlins in the internet. If you download it though, it works fine. Otherwise, the guy is walking in the lower left, not the upper left - lol

-E-

Donald Duck Safety Video

OK, this is one of my favorite safety videos. I've been using it in accident investigation training for years.

Warning, it's an old cartoon, not really politically correct. Of course, I've never been accused of being PC.



Cartoons, although targeted at old and young alike, have been shaping the attitudes of generations of children and teens. Think about the violence of old Looney Tunes, and that was before more modern cartoons such as Bevis and Butthead, Ren and Stimpy, South Park, etc.

Think about the first time you ran off of a cliff and were surprised that you fell before you looked down...or that time you hung that 1 Ton weight over a pile of birdseed to catch that pesky Roadrunner, only to miss and drop it on your own head. Took more than blowing on your thumb to recover from that, didn't it?

Or the pain of kicking yourself in the testicles, lighting yourself on fire - and your friend Kenny never did come back from the dead the week after he got trampled by that herd of rabid chipmunks - did he?

Wait - you never did any of that stuff? HaHaHa - no really - really? I'm really not the only one am I?

Anyway - watch the damn cartoon...

-E-

A Christmas Warning from NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

This video is a classic on that I like to share with all my co-workers this time of year.

It starts off simple enough, a rather bland living room - couch, coffee table, tan carpet... lamp (I love lamp...although, to my disappointment, the lamp pictured here is not in the shape of a leg)

Ooh, it must be Christmas time because there is a festive dry tree in the corner, draped in cheaply made electrical devices and surrounded by packages wrapped in highly flammable tissue paper -GOODY!!

But wait - what's that? A small spark from the middle of the tinderbox appears!




So we have learned here that - well basically, in about 45 seconds, your living room is gone. A properly watered and cared for tree during the Christmas season goes a loooong way to prevent this type of incident from happening.

Or, you could really practice with your family to get that house evacuation time down to under 45 seconds...that sounds reasonable - right?

Merry Christmas

-E-

Frankly, I just haven't had time to update as much as I'd hoped.

I'm going through some stressful times right now - a new job, a move and being without my family for almost 3 months. I apologize to those who started following me and then I disappeared off the face of the Earth...

I'm posting today because I'm at the apartment, under a blanket, sick. Whether from stress, exhaustion or whatever, my body told me it was time to take a break.

So much stupidity has happened in the world since I last posted, it would take months to put it all here. That, combined with the fact that most of it is political, means that I won't bother trying to rehash it all -

Instead, we'll try to begin anew! A fresh start to the end of the year before we are overwhelmed with stupidity from Christmas and New Year celebrations and then move right into the idiocy that will, almost definitely, control the general populace during 2011. I'm figuring the 2012 Presidential Election hoo-hah will begin in earnest around February of 2011...

So, for my first post back, a riddle -

What happens when a Semi-truck driver forgets to look both ways when crossing the tracks...?

Answer: The trailer loses! Even the guy in the van knew what was going to happen. Notice the way he throws it into reverse to get away from the coming debris shower... The way the Trucker keeps going, it almost seems that he doesn't even know his trailer is half gone.

3 Guesses on how this guy's Drug/Alcohol screen came out afterward...

Download the video in .wmv HERE

When Will Some Employers get the Message?!?!?

Read the initial story HERE

All I can say about this is how absolutely FURIOUS it makes me! Here is the Company/Owner info: The facility, at 10650 Mill Road just off state Route 64, is owned by Haasbach LLC, (or Haafbach, depending on which story, I found contact info for Haafbach)which is owned by the Harbach Family Partnership, based in Warren, and Haas & Haas, LLC, based in Elizabeth.

3 employees, one of them a CHILD (14) working in a grain bin with no fall/retrieval equipment. 2 of the 3 employees died, one of them the 14 year old BOY who should not have even been performing this hazardous work. That's not my opinion folks THAT'S THE LAW!

OSHA is investigating, we'll see how that turns out. I'll be very interested to see what kind of fines this Company gets for it's absolute disregard for human life.

For something this idiotic and negligent to happen when the Permit Required Confined Standard (29 CFR 1910.146) hasn't changed in almost 20 YEARS is completely unacceptable!

For those interested, Grain Handling Facilities are covered under General Industry standards, not Agricultural - 1910.272

I'll be watching this one closely as it goes on.

SafTguY