[00:00:00] :  this. This this show is brought to you by safety FM from the border of Liberty and prosperity in the highway to the North. This is Safety Wars four Monday December 5, 2000. And yes, to our broadcast. Have everything going on here as usual. You know, I don't trust computers. That is. And if you're listening to us alive, you are on safety broadcast. That's why I have the app on the back up. Make sure that our broadcast transmission. Right. I think we've all seen the safety sign and most of work places that I've been in fashion. This machine is stupid. So, we got a lot going on last week. We had a couple of family functions. I had to attend the halibut broadcast. That's in the woods and a lot going on today. I wanted to hit this one right off. And it's not that I have a decision that's slightly different friend of this program. Same good means on Uh huh. And he raised some very good uh issues here. Just I have notes on the computer. I am trying to get them up here. Alright. Specifically was on safety meetings. Right? So, uh, we have a little bit of a different format. We're trying out here. If I have something very interesting to say rather than mundane. Uh, you know, some of the things I'm gonna accuse of our mundane things, but safety is never mundane. For me. I love doing it. Alright. Love doing it. Love working in it. I love managing it. I love it. Uh So last week we had Mercury and we were talking about mercury, methylene chloride and we're going to talk about that again this week along with silicosis. Uh because those are what are in the news. So uh what do we have here? Sam was talking about safety meetings and how a lot of organizations require safety meetings. I mean your organization might, most of the organizations I work with require some type of a safety meeting maybe once a week. Some of them once a month. So some of the bigger Fortune 100 companies, I've worked with Fortune 500 companies. I've worked with that. They have an all hands safety meeting every month and they're conveying all different kinds of information to you and everything else. And uh some of the smaller companies I've been with, they require a safety meeting every week. Uh No, once a week take a week. And it's, you know, like we talked about that ritualistic behavior so much here. Where rituals are very important in conveying information and things of that nature now. So you go for the month, you know, for the whole month with a bigger organizations. They beat you up. And then with the smaller organization, you've done this man and shameful and blame the employee blame the employee blame the employee. So we're gonna talk about how I run safety meetings. I'm not gonna lie to you folks. I have an annual safety meeting program that I put out for my customers. And every week they get a new safety meeting relevant to the work that they're doing or maybe in response to an incident that happened or a new thing, new technology things of that nature. This is what I try to do. We find out what the regulation, right? Basically. What does the regulation say? And it's like, well, you're gonna say, well, regulations require that. Well, first thing you have to do, OSHA has that a document very extensive document that lists all of the OSHA training that you need to have. Its, there's something like 100 and 27 different trainings that we that is required by OSHA, Right? Depending on what you're doing and you need to find out where you are in that regulation. So, for example, if you find out that you are in uh, In uh, in construction, right? You go out and you look in there in the 1926 regulations and you find that in 1926.21 safety and health regulations for construction and you go down and there is a uh, a employer responsibility part of this and there are general requirements. I'll just read it, read parts of it. The secretary shall establish and supervised programs to the education and training of employers and employees and the recognition and avoidance and prevention of unsafe conditions and the employment by the act and the employer has a responsibility. The employer shall avail himself. This has to be updated, Right? The employer shall avail himself of the safety and health training programs. The secretary provides the employer shall shall that means you have got to do it right instruct each employee and the recognition and avoidance of unsafe conditions and regulations applicable to his work environment. To control or eliminate any any answers or other exposures and illnesses employees required to handle or use poisons, costs or other harmful substances shall be instructed regarding the safe handling use and be aware of potential hazards, personal hygiene and personal protective measures required and job side areas are harmful plants or animals or present employees who may be exposed, bla bla bla. What and it goes on and on and on and on. What is it? You gotta make sure you got training now. This is usually where and you go into the 1910 and general industry ones same thing, every one of these things require some type of training and if you have over 100 different training programs, right? Something like that and we'll look it up during one of the breaks. How many there are? If you have all these trainings, there is not one training class that's gonna cover all of it. So what you're forced to do if you're an employer, if you wanted to go by the book, you have, you have 50 to 52 weeks a year, You have one training session a week and we're not talking 45 minute long training session, an hour long. Sometimes some working environments that might be appropriate. For example, if you're going to be working with explosives for example, you're gonna be working with highly hazardous materials. You may have to do I we're gonna have a safety meeting once a week for an hour. We're gonna talk about what we're doing or before an activity. We're gonna Have a safety meeting, Blah, Blah, Blah. And we're gonna talk about this and the construction world, you could go over to the 30, you know what I this is what I like when I hear from contractors. Oh yeah, my people are all trained. Jimmy Oh really? What training today I got And can I see the documentation. They're all uh 30 hour trained. 30 our outreach trained well. And I said, well, you know, 30 outreach, 30 our outreach training is good. I know I supply it, I give the training, I said, however, something you need to know is that that's just an awareness of course. You're not actually training anybody because every one of those training classes is different. It has to be tailor made to the people that you're dealing with what their education level is, what they're doing. All this other stuff. It's every one of these and there's electives that sometimes you're not gonna cover and things that you are going to cover. So you're always gonna cover respiratory protection. You're always going to cover um not always respiratory, but that's an example. You're always gonna cover fall protection walking and working services. You're always going to cover PPE. You're always going to cover whatever the whatever they tell you to do you cover. That's what it is. I'm doing a class next week as a matter of fact. But what what's the point training is required? No employer is going to be able to train all of their employees on everything at one training class. So what do you have? We have? What I do is okay. What areas do you need to be trained in? We do an assessment. How is this assessment done? I look at the safety plan, I look at the activities, I do some interviews of some persons in charge. There's some interviews of some employees, hey, what do you, would you like to hear about in the training and any type of safety meeting? Go to them, they know where the hazards are. They're gonna know where maybe where they need to fill in. And if you're dealing with a sincere person who's willing to go along with what you're asking. That's how you assess what your needs are. This way you make it interesting to them. So for example, uh let's say you're on a, on a hazardous waste site is. Okay, let's go there. Okay. So on uh not so much an emergency response. Let's say you're doing an ongoing removal action. It's gonna be take years out there. What companies will do is they'll go and they'll say and and they'll go and they'll divide up phases of work and on this phase of work, these are what the hazards are. Um this phase of work. This is what the hazards are on, this phase of work. This is what the hazards are. And then you break down the hazards and then you find out, hey, you're doing safety auditing, you're watching work. Maybe, you know, God forbid there's an incident. Now you do a safety meeting on that incident. Well this is what happened and you're making a positive thing. Look, this is what happened is when you're miss, thank God nobody got hurt. But let's try and I hate to say this try harder. But okay, maybe we need to rather than say that, hey, this is what we know what we're wrong. This is what we found out. Uh you know, we're gonna change the way things were doing things here. You're not gonna blame the employee because I tell you what, you start blaming the employee in front of all of their coworkers, you're gonna have a problem. No one's gonna want to go to that uh safety meeting. So I do an assessment. I find out what topics we need, what we need to talk about and we give them little things at a time, because then once you get into a program and it's ahead of time what the program is, guess what happens now, It's relevant to what they're doing because you figured out what they need, what they say that they need, what they're interested in. And sometimes, you know, uh, where we've had, uh, no, we have the, well, you know what frank over there, I always say the word named frank. I don't know. I don't think I've ever worked with someone closely named frank. But hey, frank over there goes, maybe that's why I'm choosing them because it's safe frank is, is an expert on rigging. So frank wants to talk to us about rigging today. Hey frank. Why don't we do that? Now you're involving other people and you're coming in and you're helping. Um, that's what you need to do to help. Hey, now, hey, and frank might be a leader in the area. You may also try going out or you have a new employee right out of college, right out of grad school. Uh, maybe a new employee from a different company, a different world. Hey, now what's your thought, what are some of the new technologies that are rather, what are some of the things coming up regulatory wise? What are some of the things that, you know, you learned that we may not, we can learn from each other. Now you have a partnership going in there or you're learning from each other. As I said in a comment a couple of weeks ago to one of my customers where we're having a personnel issue with one of the contract personnel, I said, you know, none of us has an monopoly here on experience. None of us has a monopoly on knowledge. So what does that mean? We tried to learn and improve from each other. We have a learning team here. We talk to each other like Brent Sutton would say. Now, another thing that you need, once you have a your topics chosen for your safety meeting right now, you can do research, you prepare for that safety meeting. You go out there and you say, hey today we're going to talk about whatever carbon monoxide. Let's talk about it. Now, you're gonna say what type of hazards are associated with carbon monoxide and what acted reasons that we're doing could produce it. What's the primary exposure route for carbon monoxide? Uh, you know, is an inhalation, uh, injection, right? Contact ingestion. It's gonna be inhalation injection. Yeah, I can see that happening in some cases, but that's not really likely. But right. What respiratory protection is required for event a ceo exposure, what are, what are we doing with that? Well, as you know, with Ceo, it's going to be mostly a monitoring situation. And then what kind of uh, once you get over the P. E. L. Right, what do you do? Well, you start generating more ventilation. You go through the hierarchy of controls and then you end up if you can't do anything with that, you end up in supplied air of some sort. Uh, if a worker is potentially, the problem is with your Ceo you don't smell it when you smell it in the exhaust. That's from other things in there, other impurities. Right? So you end up in supply there and there is no cartridge that I'm aware of, at least that would be able to filter that out even on an emergency basis. Right? If the workers potentially exposed the CEO or has their personal C. zero m alarm, what actions and notifications are required. If you have a rick for SEO monitor, in that case, you would take that C. O monitor, bring it over to a reader of some sort, which is usually what the personal C. O monitors have and you figure out what happened and you evacuate the work area and you make reports and everything else. Hey, you might have a C. O. Issue here. And what location are areas, what no are we required to our C. O monitors and and everything else that would be. Now we're in there, we're making it relevant to the person. You're making it exciting. The last thing you want to do is this what is the primary exposure route for carbon monoxide? You don't want to be doing that. You want to be organized, right? And the thing is you want to be able to take questions from people. All right, I've run the safety meetings from anywhere from a crew of two people or three people up to like 70 people. And this is what we end up doing. Another thing you can do number three. What can you do to make the safety meeting more enjoyable? You have it at at a at the same time every week, at the same time, every day, same time every month. So, they know the second Tuesday of the month, you're gonna have all hand safety meeting. They know at seven a.m. In the morning, you're gonna have your little toolbox talk, you're there, you're gonna know they're gonna know at uh whatever. And you started on time. Always started on time because I tell you what the worst thing that production wants is to have a safety meeting, eating into production time. So, if you're doing a daily safety meeting, okay? Five minutes you sit down with the safety meeting, you go and you do it all right? Five minutes. Okay. Nobody's gonna complain about that. Usually that's when guys are and women for that matter. Right, are and they're having their morning coffee. Okay? We're gonna have coffee. We're gonna have this, we're gonna have that. And we're gonna do that. If you have a longer safety meeting, I've been on the job. So they had a complete spread in the morning breakfast sandwiches for everybody and donuts and bagels. Uh Now what's a bagel? It's like a boiled bread and then they put it into an oven and they bake it. Now? The fourth thing that you want to do is this you want to according to OSHA right, this is what the what the reality is. If that meaning is not recorded on a sign in sheet at a minimum with what the agenda was and maybe some other talking points or notes that are associated once you get going and you're talking to people in the meeting, if you do not have that documented, it never happened. I'm sorry folks. That's the way it is. If, whether it's dealing with an inspection, whether it's dealing with uh uh an inspection, a audit, anything, if it ain't in writing and you don't have something in writing, it never happened. So this is what I do. I have safety meetings documented. Now you're gonna say this. Okay, now let's bring it all together. Now we're gonna bring it all together. You keep those on file because this is what has happened multiple times, Especially dealing with litigation or attorneys. My client did not receive any instruction on X, Y and Z. Whatever it was. Whatever the made up, the lame game uh that gets played whatever it is, right? Whatever. Oh my, this happened to me like a year ago. My employee never received training on rigging. So contractor, why wasn't in charge of the training? But he submitted the signing sheets to me. I said, well here's the sign in sheet. All on rigging and everything that was discussed. Oh how about the eight hour has the eight hour refresher for has watch for and it has water you think is a new sandwich at burger king. You got a problem hazardous waste operations and emergency response. I have clients that cannot afford to take the whole company out for an eight hour work day and do uh safety training for the eight hour refresher. So what do they do? They say we're going to have the eight hour refresher, we're going to do a one hour, 12 months a year, one hour a month, 12 hours document it. And everybody will have by the end of that 12 months or eight hour refresher done and they cover all of the hat swap for topics. We can do it remotely, we can do it uh in person, we can do it uh anybody who's qualified at the company to give the training can do that and everything else. Well guess what, That's how some companies do that. Let's say you're in a third party uh auditing system or third party evaluator of your safety plans for example. I. S. Net world. So you enter in your data on I. S. Network by the way we can help you get into I. S. Net world and again your plans approved, You type it in for I. S. Network blah blah blah blah blah blah. Okay this is what we're doing. We are an industrial painting contractor for example. Alright industrial painting contractor, they're probably gonna say you need anywhere from 30 to 36 different programs in your health and safety program. Now you have to verify either on a one year or a three year schedule that everybody at your company has had or at least certain persons in charge on the appropriate people have gotten training in that area. 36. Okay. Are you are you going to send the whole company out for 36 training sessions per year or every three years? A company is not gonna do that? Not gonna happen. I'm sorry. Ain't gonna happen. So what happened, what do we do generate 36 training sessions? 52 weeks a year. You pick one a week, that's what you're done At the end of 36 weeks. Everybody has had that thing. And guess what? You're good. Now when I. S. Net world or some other auditor comes and says uh mr proposal? Did uh you folks go out and do safety training with everybody? Yeah as a matter of fact we did here's our 30 hour oce outreach training cards. We got a whole roster here, we got it on a Excel spreadsheet or in an app or you know there's multiple apps but you know my clients like using spreadsheets. That's fine. Okay here's the spreadsheet. It says this here is uh for 30 hours. We got everybody forklift training by the way I do that to forklift training. we got the full one day class, Everybody who needs it. We got the full one day class for for for boom lift and scissor lift training, we got this. And by the way, those 36 topics that we cover, we also do first aid cpr Hey, Those 36 topics, 32 topics, we have a signing sheet that says that everybody got training on that. Oh, and by the way, now, with the smartphone technology, we not only have that. We also audio record every session. Oh, now, okay, very good. Now you've fulfilled your 1926.21 employer responsibilities stuff. Now, after eight hours of training or you can do not only eight hours of training, you can do 16 half hour trainings on the has Loppers, Standard a year, right? Half an hour safety meaning we're going to talk about his whopper get, that's what happens now, you have that. Now you're able to document that doesn't impact operations as relevant to what you're doing and because you audited everybody and you talked to the worker found out what the worker did. Guess what? Now, you're good. Now, how do you change things? We have, everyone remembers this. It's our, one of our most commented on presentations is uh, Saul Alinsky's rules for radicals. All right, in the professional safety community communication and planning are just a few keys to your program success. The question many practitioners have is where do I start dr J Allen, the creator of the safety FM platform and host of the our safety show has built a global foundation to help you along the way, go to safety FM dot com and listen to some of the industry's best and most involved professionals, including Blaine Hoffman with the safety pro sam Goodman with the Hop nerd Sheldon Primus with the safety consultant Jim proposal with safety wars, Emily, L Rod with unapologetically bold and many others. As India individuals, we can do great things, but as a team, we become amazing, dial into safety FM dot com today and surround yourself with a powerful force of knowledge and support. Mhm. Anyway, okay, where were we? Okay, so, we remember, one of our most requested requested is to sell out Alinsky's rules for radicals, safety wars. So, what, what do we, what's one of the things you wanna you have a group and you're gonna find out what works and what doesn't work, what works and what doesn't work for your group and what could work? Uh what's the uh, point and something, if your group likes doing something, keep doing it, right, is right out of rules for radicals. The other thing is if you do something long enough, sometimes it becomes a drag. Now, the last thing you want to hear, if you're going to be out here, Oh, uh, you want to hear out here is if someone says, oh man, not another confined space entry safety training. Not another one when he goes, this is why if you plan things out over the long term, right? Uh, if you plan this out over the long term, we're talking over the year and you're not going to repeat topics unless it's absolutely necessary. This is no J Allen. And he's absolutely 100% correct. Talks about marketing safety. Believe me marketing safety now you're gonna say, well, okay, this is a great way to market safety and to have yourself shine is to have a safety meeting. Alright, let's pull no punches here. Alright, this is not all about me, me, me, me, me, the safety guy giving safety training. No, but you want to set yourself up as an expert as someone who could talk, you could talk to someone who's willing to learn from other people, someone who is able to get feedback from other people and everything else with this. So you're if you're up there, your marketing safety, how's that? You go up there, hey? Yeah. And you get the and you get the workforce behind you kept management behind you, you're marketing your say this is what I could do, blah, blah, blah, blah blah. And consequently I'm gonna I'll pull this as an aside, this may be totally inappropriate, but I'll say this again. If you're interested in love in the workplace, I don't recommend it, but that does happen. You go up there in front of somebody. You sure you have some personal authority. Your chances are your romantic life will improve, assuming you're single. Alright. I can tell you that from, you know, personal experience with that. Not since I'm married though, I always make sure I tell everybody I'm married. First thing. Maybe I shouldn't have said that. But anyway, when you go out there and you set yourself in your marketing safety, you're showing leadership ability. You're doing all that stuff. That's a major positive for what you're doing for everything that you're doing. You're showing leadership. You're building leadership. You're doing all that other stuff. And we talk about leadership. A lot of art. Safety training is also, and this is the kind of stuff that you need to get to. Sam is right. Sam is phenomenally correct with this. You go to some of these places and who the hell wants to hear you go up there and B. I. T. C. H. I think I smell it right. Who wants to hear you? Well, frank, you did this wrong and charlie, you did this wrong and nick you did this wrong and you you did this and this and these are audit refining. We have to go up there. We got to improve our audits blah blah blah blah. And then before you know it at like one facility I'm at, everybody is required to do safety audits every day and guess what, 98% of the time, There's nothing wrong. And then they're like, well these are useless. We'll look at the way you're acting. I won't know. One of my friends john, he's agreed to come on this program. We'll see. We get him on here. Uh He said to me, jimmy, you know, he says I was passing by his house the other day and I said, I give him a call and said, and we're talking and he says, jimmy, you're not going to believe that man. Remember that beast thing from a couple years ago? I said, yeah. He said they blamed my worker. This one facility in New Jersey, blame my worker. And they talked and I said, I know I heard about it every week at their sick. Make sure b You have beast. Okay. Great. The guy got stung by a bee. He had a allergic reaction. He had an EpiPen with him. He shot himself up with whatever is in the EpiPen and he got and he was okay. It turned out to be an OSHA. Recordable, okay? Because incident happened at work and you had a rich and ministered ended up being OSHA recordable. Nobody argued that alright. That happens All right, Every day. Every safety meeting for a year. We had to hear about this every week. Right? It was nutty. So one they blamed the worker. The worker did not assess their work area. I said, you know, there was another way, you could argue this too. You could have been, you could have uh, oh, this just came across. Apparently there's report that Kirstie Alley has passed away, Sorry for the distraction. I said, Look, 30. I said, you know, there's another argument here. The argument is that they didn't supply you with a safe work area that it wasn't assessed by the client. They said, well, you know, we would have gotten thrown out of that. And so we got harassed for a year. And I said, yeah. And you had, yeah, I wouldn't blame them. Now, who the hell wants to hear that for a year? That's a problem. And Sam is 100% correct on there. Know this safety meeting is supposed to be positive. It's not supposed to be a bit much session all the time. However, sometimes it turns into that and you've been the safety professional officiating this meeting have got to learn how to handle that, right. I shared the story where uh, we had this guy named john, not the john, I just was talking about one of my best friends, but this other john who was a shop steward. He came at the meeting and he started making all these suggestions and ranting and raving. It was over 100% hand protection where we had to wear gloves on the side. 100% of the time. We weren't gonna talk anybody out of that. And word on the street was the next person that talked about this. And I heard this from the project manager that asked to get away from gloves is gonna get fired. That's what the word on the street is. So he's up there in front of 75 people, 70 people, whatever it was. It wasn't 70 or 75. It was around that says, okay, when are you jimmy? When are you when he starts banging the table? When are you going to do something about this here? You know, uh, stop la la, right. And he's getting all uh, and I said, I said, you know, john, I said, you know, you're right. And this was the music that was going through my head, but I didn't let them in on it. I said, john, you know, you have a great uh, you have a great way of arguing, a great way about you, you're very passionate about this. You have some very good points and everything else. I said, I tell you what can we take this outside the meeting? And I tell you what, we're going to go up to the Project manager's office and the safety manager's office and you can argue your point. He says, uh no, I said john, you're really good. Let's go up there and argue your point because I knew again, we're on the street next person that argues this is going to get fired. Got thrown off the project because they were getting these are complaints every day. And uh, well, guess what turned it around on him. So that's why you don't confront during the safety meeting, whether you're the official, official safety professional and you call people out or if you're the other guy in the audience, calling out the safety professional and management because it could be turned around on you. So, you're trying to make all of these meetings very congenial, very nice, very anything else. So, uh, now listen to SAm's podcast, the hop nerd right available on the safety FM network and wherever your podcasts are available, phenomenal discussion he had today on, uh, safety meetings. Uh, I'm not disagreeing with him, I'm just expanding on it a little bit here. Uh, Great guy, phenomenal guy, nobody, but, you know, in his world, the manufacturing world, I've been at dozens of manufacturing plans over the last 30 years and that's what you get, you get safety meetings that are not effective and their run and they're ineffective. They're pointless. Their pitch sessions, their complaints, they're this, they're anything but safety. So I hope some of my discussion might give you a little bit more of an insight and help you go and have a more effective safety meeting on that. And if you do it consistently, it becomes ritual, as we all know, ritual is the first, uh, form of communication we have according to anthropologists. And it's one of the first and it's one of the most effective ways of communicating information is that. And remember it's training. It's all training uh It's not more or less education. Education is you're conveying information. You're gonna have to do that. Sometimes training is you're imparting some type of a skill and that's all I'm gonna say on that. And uh I'll release this exclusively on our podcast. Platform safety wars and we're gonna come back at you in a minute. You are listening to safety wars. Tomorrow's Safety today 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 ward's team at safety words dot com. Or call jim proposal at 845269577. To remember if you're receiving this message, you are the solution to unsafe workplaces. OSHA. Recordable first aid cases, catastrophic losses. You want answers. So do I. This is jim proposal with safety wars. Let me I didn't really give him a uh plug here right for his five cancer. He has had a phenomenal book out there And one of them is 10 ideas to make safety suckle less. Absolute. go and get the buck. It's phenomenal. Uh he also has another book. Safety sucks. And another manifest so called safety sucks and reflections on what uh what W. T. F. R. M. Reflections on what it what is meaningful to workplace safety. Right? He has something else obscured which is an autobiography by him. It's absolutely a phenomenal autobiography. So anyway uh great guy follow him on the hop nerd podcast. We're gonna go back to our normal stuff and news and views where you have, we're out of roughly 42 minutes after the hour. Alright I gotta update this software screen. I gotta refresh it every so often. Otherwise the timing is all the way fouled up. We're gonna talk about some war news because there's some uh right so I'm looking at some of the mainstream news outlets here and they reported on uh that Ukraine was behind explosions that rocked two air bases steven side Russia and killed three military personnel according to Moscow the blast at sites hundreds of miles from the border between the two countries are the result of the Ukrainian drone attack. Not a missile attack. Now, what I found out was according to press reports, the United States has put more or less a governor on uh literally not a governor but a uh uh a limit on how far the missiles can go. Right so to prevent them to being used uh prevent them from being used offensively deep within Russia. Right so they don't want an escalation of that. They want short range missions. Uh short range missiles. But what they're doing is they're sending in apparently drones of some sort or now what is not in a lot of the news is that these were uh allegedly nuclear uh capable uh, aircraft on here, which uh, which you know, a lot of the disaster. The prep world is starting to freak out over A huge story here. Is this in North Carolina. A power outage leaves 33,000 without electricity after a substation attack. So either criminals or terrorists went out and shot up a couple of substations. Now in 2012 there was a similar attack out in uh southern san Jose California at the metcalf substation reason why I know the area was, I worked right down the street from it when I worked over at Pratt and Whitney UTC in SAn Jose with another listener of ours, who will go by the name of Lori? Why? Uh and what we uh, what what ended up happening was, what the idea is is that you knock out, you don't do, the power system is very vulnerable in this country. I'm not sharing anything that's not a that's a national secret here. There are all different ways to take out a community and the power system is one of them E. M pulse, we've heard of electromagnetic pulse, but general vandalism and shooting things up just know for a local area, it's just as effective. Also, if I've heard of people getting home invaded. And what do they do in the middle of the woods, They cut the power to the house, That sort of thing. This is this is a big deal guys. This is a huge freaking deal. Because now this happened. It's a low cost way of doing things, right? Very low cost to impact these substations and they're saying gunfire here. But it could be any number of ways that's gonna happen. And guess what Now? You have 33,000 people that power. What kind of stress is not going to put on the system? The emergency response system, the public health system and all the other systems. Number one and number two is now you got people freaked out. What are you gonna do? You're gonna have an issue here guys. Eventually here's another one. I I have to get music for the creepy stories here because it's creepy students uncover under death surveillance devices assigned to track them. Right? So this was at a Northeastern University's interdisciplinary science and engineering complex. Right? Where they found the students tracking devices that would track them underneath the debts that would glogg into their smartphone to do like an attendance thing. That's creepy. My question is, what the hell next? We're gonna put cameras under desks. Really unbelievable energy groups, Sue biden administration for failing to hold oil gas and lease sales again. Right? So president should stop buttressing up dictators while suppressing domestic production. The head of an energy group said the and the energy group. What groups were the Western Energy Alliance and Petroleum Association, Wyoming? Their acronym is pau uh, and basically mineral leases aren't being sold. I don't know. Last week there was a report that mineral releases were sold. So I don't know how up to date. Uh, the story is, and as we know that this was out of a legitimate news outlet, I've read this by a couple of them. I don't know how they're related. But basically, uh, one of the ongoing arguments is that we have a reduction in capacity of oil supplies here in this country, in the United States, which is causing the oil prices to rise and a cut in production overseas, including the war in Ukraine. Now, I I remember that, you know, as everybody here knows on the air. I've been listening to uh, what do you call, talk radio? I've been following the news. I'm one of those guys that before the internet, you ST three or four newspapers a day, right, Including the New york Times and Wall Street Journal. So I remember certain things that people seem to forget and this is one of them, right. New Jersey could have the first law in the US requiring adults to wear a bike helmet. So back in the early to mid 90s, we had three politicians that decided to extend uh, to require Children to wear bike helmets. I forget all the details. My kids were bike helmets. I wear bike helmets. If it weren't for bike helmet, I would probably be dead right now and the bike helmets. Uh what do you think they did? These politicians in New Jersey? This is no, this is a classic Jersey move classic. They went out and bought stock and a helmet company and then they mandated Children wear helmets. Right? So now they got the profit from it, right? Classic New Jersey move anywhere else. It would be insider training, but it's legal for a politician to do that. So, New Jersey is extending the ritual wearing a helmet while riding a bicycle or scooter. Now the big thing is these scooters. All right, you got you know, you're going to New york city, you go around any big city, even a no suburb out here in the Northeast. They're out there riding scooters, no helmets, really? So here we have Assemblyman Reginald Atkins. He's a democrat from Union County New from Union New Jersey. Union County New Jersey, I imagine right, proposed his legislation after a minor screwed er crash involving his wife and daughter. I hope that uh I hope they had uh you know, they recover. I don't want to see anybody hurt. Believe me, I don't, you know, there's only a couple of people I wouldn't want to see her. Well, maybe not a couple, but anyway, I'm only joking. I'm only joking. Don't email me. Alright, don't complain. I heard a thumb, This is a quote, I heard a thump and I looked back. It was my daughter and wife. They were on the ground. They had gashes on their knees and their feet. If it had been on their head we would have had a serious problem. Absolutely. I tell you what T. B. I. S. Real serious here. So here some background further down it was 30 years ago in 1992. New Jersey became the first U. S. State to enact a mandatory Hamilton law for Children under the age of 14. It was expanded in 1998 to include roller skates in line skates and skateboards. And in 2005 to include Children under the age of 17. And in 2011 to include scooters. So uh basically where your helmet man uh And the other thing is this if your helmet was involved in a crash it ain't any good anymore. Do okay we're going to go into this. Okay the real I. D. Deadline is just another. Now you're gonna say well the obvious helmet safety happens this after 9 11. They were really pushing for I. D. Uh for years real I. D. Right meaning your identification and your state issued identification has to meet certain requirements. They were pushing that real hot and heavy for years. They finally got it passed. And now they're having a another delay in enforcement. The homeland. Homeland security said monday will extend the real I. D. Enforcement date by 24 months to May 17 2025. The previous enforcement date was May 3rd 2023. So we all went out right. Especially some of the states in the Northeast where they've been dragging their feet and they all went out everybody rushing the D. M. V. Right in a panic situation that they cannot travel Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah. And now they delayed it again. Really? So the real idea act. Here you go. Here's some history was passed in 2005. Right? And it still hasn't been. And wow that's great. Wonderful. Our financials. Let's end up with that dow jones industrial down slightly. 33 9 47. S. And P. 500 down slightly. 13998. The NASDAQ is down 11,000 to 39. Russell 18 2040 22. 10 year Treasury note is up to 3.5. And let's see oil crude oil right Is up slightly today 77 61 but two weeks ago was over 90 I guess that's a good trend. Bitcoin is up again 17035. And people are screaming and you know Bitcoin is gonna sink and sink and sink. Well I don't know they've been saying that about a lot of stuff for my entire life. Alright. And it hasn't happened yet. We'll see how this goes. Gold is at 17 79 40 silver 20 to 51. It's up, wow, platinum At 2 20 palladium, I'm sorry platinum at 1016 and palladium at 1919. Alright, so the only one that was down was platinum. Okay, so let's go to over to some funny things will end on a funny note. Where is that funny story? Smart toilet can spot warning signs for bowel diseases by listening to you passed gas, This is Soriana Nashville Tennessee from the Georgia Institute of Technology, they developed a sensor that comes a device that comes to the sensor that picks up the sounds of users as they poop or the noise of them passing gas. The device is linked to an ai intelligence system that classifies bowel movements in test and identified signs of cholera and other chronic diseases offering hope of treatment starting at the earliest opportunities before symptoms even appear. I guess that's better than going out there and having a person do this. Right. The hope is that this sensor, This is called the Maya Kaitlin, an aerospace engineer from Georgia tech. And the hope is that this sensor, which is small and footprint and noninvasive in approach, could be deployed to areas where cholera outbreaks are a persistent risk. The computer neural network looks for subtle changes in the noise made when someone defecates urinates or passes gas. The team collects hours of audio and video samples from healthy and unwell patients to establish the formula aye Corumba. So now we have their monitoring students in a classroom with the creepy under you know, under desk devices. Right, pinging off their cell phone and now they have their listening into your gas. Unbelievable. No, as a famous radio talk show host used to say it's sick out there and it's getting sicker. Another study researchers tagged mosquitoes, DNA barcodes opening the door to tracking a virus spread. So this is what they're doing, right? This is a team from colorado straight take colorado State. Colorado State and Colorado State sounds like a steakhouse or colorado State has now introduced a harmless edible DNA particles that can help scientists research mosquito borne diseases in a whole new way. So they're able to go and uh they're able to go and inject or not inject but uh in fact mosquitoes with his D. N. A. It's edible and they're able to attract mosquitoes and viruses and everything else. That sounds pretty freaking cool man. You know, eating just over two cups of grapes may prevent sunburns and skin cancer. This is from Fresno from the California table grape commission. Right? And they found that people who ate two and a quarter cups of grapes every day for two weeks displayed more resistance to damage from ultraviolet light to the skin. I'm questioning and I think my wife is questioning. Does that also apply to what does that translate into to wine? I don't know or grape jelly. I have no idea. So that's what we got for tonight. We'll be coming back at you tomorrow here on safety wars and I have a safe day and if you have a safety meeting tomorrow, take our advice here. Right. See you tomorrow. The views and opinions expressed on this podcast are those of the host and its guests and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the company. Examples of analysis discussed within this podcast are only examples. 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