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Posted By Mark Bywater
For some time now I've considered different ways in which I can get the safety message to a group of people who don't necessarily see safety as a priority...namely our factory staff.
My latest attempt though has come up with some surprisingly positive comments from a number of different levels of staff. Most of these have been from people who never looked at things this particular way before.
It goes like this...I was sitting waiting to go into bat at my last cricket match of the season when I thought about the PPE I was wearing, pads, helmet, gloves, arm guard, thigh pad and of course the trusty box.
This got me to thinking how stupid it would be to attempt to face the bowlers, of any speed, without this equipment. So when I got to work I set about searching for a good picture of a batsman with all the gear on and thanks to the BBC website I managed to cut and paste a large picture of Verinder Sehwag in all his Twenty20 kit.
Under this picture I asked the question "Why is he wearing this equipment?" and gave a couple of off the cuff answers along with the right one. I have then asked if all staff wear the correct PPE when they know they should?
This sporting analogy has been quite successful, even for the morning it's been on display, but I'm sure I'm not the first to use this one.
Have any other colleagues used ideas from other walks of life to get the message across, and what degrees of success has been achieved?
Cheers,
Mark
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Posted By Anthony Rocheford
Hi Mark
It is always good to draw reference to non- work activities that the workers can identify with, while at the same time demonstrating how what they are doing can affect their ability to do something they enjoy doing.
An employer that I was advising was having a problem with one of his workers wearing hearing protection, I found out that he was a playboy so I used his resulting hearing loss to explain how his girlfriend would have to speak so loudly that every one in the restaurant would overhear what they were saying, he was wearing the hearing protection from the next day.
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Posted By Jane Blunt
Sport is a good source of analogies. I use kata guruma in my manual handling talks (use Google image to see what this is) to demonstrate how important good lifting technique is, and how much more than 25kg can be lifted safely, if done by the right people in the right way!
It also makes a good joke - your assignment for this morning is to learn to do this task - have I any volunteers?
Jane
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Posted By Ken John
Phew!!!
I nearly got myself into lots of bother then as I read kata guruma as "karma sutra" and thought this was helpful for manual handling, nearly starting a poster campaign.
Seriously though, it is refreshing to see that other images are successful rather than the usual severed arm or the like.
Ken
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Posted By jom
Mark,
I like the batsman image - must get the point across.
There is a "but", though.
Why is someone hurling a cricket ball at Sehwag? This is an uncontrolled hazard.
The analogy can be reversed to show that hazards must be eliminated, not compensated for via PPE.
J.
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