Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Funny Safety Pics

I first started giving out talks in safety about a year ago,.. mostly about regulations and sometimes I would add funny pictures to avoid boredom of my fellow audience.
It seem that, well,... in their faces when they saw the pictures that safety culture is still far away to grab, but hey it's a challenge.
In order to make this country a developed country, safety culture is part of it. So, what is the relations between developed country and safety? Let me put it this way... imagine that, in a big companies which always have an accident occurs involving its employee, would, at least lost its profit due to,....
Firstly, the injured employee would take a medical leave which recorded as lost time injury, secondly, if the employee is not fit enough to do the same routine job, the company would bare the cost to train a new employee. Doesn't it cost more rather than invest for safety for the sake of the employees and company profit?
Know this, that accidents is like an iceberg, you can only see certain part of it, you'll never know what the hidden cost is. That' why accidents are costly.
On top of that, who's gonna support his family if the employee is dead? What about income per ca-pita which our government urge it's citizen to increase their revenue? Think about it.

This welder do not wear an appropriate personal protective equipment. Just imagine the spark from the welding rod jump off and hit his face. What would happen?


This picture was taken a long time ago. Do not know when is the exact date. These were the construction workers of World Trade Center in New York. There were no safety harness put on by these fellows.


Can a brick act as your safety helmet?


Take safety for granted aye?


What a superhuman strength...gosh..

2 comments:

Ken Wooi said...

wow the world trade center picture..
they are really brave!

Don said...

Ken, you should see some of the other pictures from that era and of the Golden Gate Bridge when they were building it. I've jumped out of airplanes, copters, done some pretty "stupid" stuff up high in the air, but these guys were wild in what they did!!