Time to dust off this blog after our Post-Sandy downtime and get started back up again with providing helpful information.
It seems that for a good chunk of this winter, we were seeing examinee's for Functional Capacity Evaluations due to the ever present constant of gravity in conjuction with ladders, trees, and being up on the roof. We can't change gravity's constant, but we can try to be smarter about how we use our ladders when we are performing work when off of the ground.
When we do safety and body mechanics lectures, we try to include photos of people doing a task wrong - sadly, most people laugh and accuse us of using staged photos or they wonder if the photo has been photoshopped. This is because everyone always thinks that there is no way someone would do something that stupid. But they are always true - and the acts are typically performed by those who know better. Like the firefighters in the video below:
This video has a bunch of things wrong, but one of the things that is just as striking as the lack of common sense and the close call with significant injury from the saw is that nobody stopped them from doing this. Keep in mind that we are not only responsible for the safety of ourselves but also our co-workers - if you see something, say something!!!
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