[00:00:00] :  this show is brought to you by safety warning. The following broadcast contains adult language, adult content, frank safety discussions and stories that might sound unbelievable. But believe me, every one of those stories is true. We didn't start the safety war, but we are going to fight to win it for our families, for our communities, for our workplaces and for our lives. Hi, I did not get a podcast out last week, One of these weeks years. What have you? I'm gonna have a lot to talk about because of what happened over the last week or so with one of my projects and in my life, needless to say when it rains, it pours either with prosperity or with other stuff negativity. So what are we talking about today on safety words, five reasons to work safe today and shame and blame. Last week, one of my clients had a Health and safety meeting on the five reasons work safe today. Now we're all on our HOP journey as we say here on safety FM in a lot of the other programs with Dot Conklin J Allen SAm Goodman. We all started out on this hop course five years ago or even three or two years ago. I probably would have had a different take on this where we have to deal with all this stuff, but we're gonna blame the employee for everything. One of the issues I've had over the last week is a employer trying to trust the employee to do everything and not giving the employee all of the resources necessary to do the job and then oh well that's the employee's fault. Well, not really because you didn't give them all the resources that you needed to give them like proper fall protection equipment being one of them. So one of my employees had to assign a project, we're with a new client and we have to use their safety talks by the way. We sell safety talks. You want us to hold your safety meeting where you can do it remotely. No problem here because drop us a line jim at safety words dot com. Long story short, we had to present these five things and he said, jimmy, you know, I really don't feel comfortable doing this anymore. After all, we've learned over the last couple of years that hop. So five reasons work safe today. And I'll preface this and saying maybe it's the five reasons Uh five things to blame the employee for. There you go. Here we go. We all have different reasons for why we choose to do certain things and why we may not choose to do others when it comes to working safely. We should all want to choose to make the right decision. We all are different in the way we think, but there are many common reasons why we choose to work safe, no matter what your motivator, maybe keep these five reasons in mind as to why we should all strive to work safe. Alright. So that sounds okay. But the thing is, and the more I think about it and I've been hearing different points of view here, you were all familiar with it, nobody comes to work wanting to get hurt. First of all, I have a couple of stories where that's not true, where people like there's this one guy who didn't like his job assignment, so he took a ball peen hammer and broke his own hand, true story. So he got out of work, you know, stuff like that. But there's also a corollary here, nobody wants to come to work hurt, but nobody wants to make their job harder and the safety stuff, let's face it, some of it, people don't see the long term system approach the benefit, nothing like that. It's about creating part of safety. Safety is a lot of things. Part of safety is getting into good habits getting into a system. People say, well we do save you. Well, I don't know about doing safety now, that means it's like not part of the job safety, part of your job, part of what we do and everything. It's all incorporated into things. But here are the five things your health, obviously your health and well being should be the biggest motivator as to why you should choose the work safe once we lose our health or impacted severely. It may never be the same and it's important to really think about how a severe injury would change the rest of your life. Okay, great, well, again, I don't think workers come in and say, well I'm going to get hurt. Not usually at least number two providing for your family. Your family depends on your ability to earn an income when you are injured or ill, you can lose that ability very quickly write your reputation while productive employees are still very much rewarded at many companies. Working safely is often recognized right along with production, your reputation at work not only affects you, it goes on and on and on for your coworkers. Making a choice to take a shortcut cannot only harm yourself. It can harm a fellow worker. Your company has the whole whether you love the company you work for or not the job they provide pays your bills. So this all sounds like a take off on the try harder type of thing. I can tell you what maybe if we change these around a little bit, you can see where we're going here, where we need to go, Where we need to be your employees, health, providing for your employees family, your reputation as a company or organization. Your employees encouraging them to do the right thing, giving them incentives, your company as a whole. Being good for the company limiting company liabilities and also what's your biggest resource and at your company, your employer employee. It's not the employer, it's not the ceo it's your employee. Richard Branson always says treat your employee right and they're going to take care of you. Real simple. Maybe not in those words are basically yet. I think if companies adopted maybe the five things and applied it to themselves, I'll take off our physician heal thyself. Perhaps things will work out a little bit better from the safety realm and the productivity realm and everything else. Because what I'm seeing and a lot of companies, especially if they are publicly owned or very large companies, the managers just use it as a stepping stone. The decisions that they make, they're gonna be out of there in 54 or five years decisions they make are going to impact the company 67 or eight years later or after they're gone and they make groovy, no decisions, right and questionable decisions. So rather than blame the employee and say, hey, you gotta work harder. You've got to worry about these five things work safe, right? You know, these are five reasons you need to work safe today. Maybe you should go and turn the mirror on yourself if you're a safety manager and you're citing, hey, these employees, I'm supervised. You have to just try harder. That's how we're going to get to this so called safety utopia. Well, guess what? That's you're not going to be successful. You're putting your reliance on things that are not going to to be successful. That's your employee, employees have error rates as Sam Goodman said this weekend. I got to give him a shout out on this one. He had a very good point. His point was a scrape will never kill you. A scrape on the knee will ever kill you. Apply it to the house, We have Children. I have two kids of my own taking a boo boo. Okay, guess what? They got a boo boo. We don't say we have an unsafe house because we're gonna have a boo boo. We had a boo boo, we're going to go and we're going to uh, the house is on a trend to having a catastrophic incident over a scraped knee. Well, guess what? That's how a lot of organizations operate, isn't it? Sam had a great point there. He's on the hop nerd. Holp nerd. Alright, check him out. He's really good. And of course dot Conklin. Anyway, that's what my message is. That you're not gonna win this safety war. However, we define this safety war that I always talk about it. We always think about here blaming people, blaming the employee, blaming this guy, blaming that girl, blaming this blaming. It ain't gonna work right? So look at yourself in the mirror and say, you know what? How can I work with my coworkers? How can I work within my organization to make it a safer place. What can I do? Rather than blaming people For safety wars? This is Jim proposal is your safety training old stale. And Hackney is your safety trainer still preaching a warped version of behavior-based safety. How about safety training that actually addresses your hazards in your workplace? Is and it's not standardized Bologna from 25 years ago. Contact the safety words team at safety words.com or call Jim proposal at 845-69577. To remember if you're receiving this message, you are the solution to unsafe workplaces. 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