The following post is not for those with weak hearts.

Good point. It is better to have no one pushing for safety than someone who gets it done slowly.

I love to sit around and hear the old timers talk about the days when people were scalded to death by steam releases or had their arms ripped from their bodies by machinery. One good story is about the time the old electrical tech leaned over to pick up screwdriver in a unprotected electrical area, contacted a 440 line with his metal hard hat and blew into lots of tiny pieces.

Ahh, the good old days. Short handled shovels so your back is killing you at the end of the day; metal ladders contacting overhead power lines and blowing your hands off....

Just the other day we were reminising about how you used to just have to hold your breath before entering an area contaminated with Hydrogen Sulfied. Lot of good death stories there. Now, due to the lousy Union bargaining powers, we have to wear air packs so we can breath while we work. And guess who has to pay for them? That's right. The company.

Of course there are some real gruesome stories involving fire, but there's not room for all of those here. You see enough of these things and you begin to wonder if there is not a better way to make the management listen to your point of view.

Try and think of getting ANY improvement in safety out of a large company as just like eating an elepahnt. You do it one bite at a time, and it just might take awhile.