Introduction

Greetings! If you are reading this blog, that means you are:

• an employee interested in doing your job and going home with all his fingers
• an employer who wants his employees to go home with all their fingers
• absolutely bored and have read every other blog on the internet

If you fall into the third category, please turn off the computer and go find a productive activity. However, if you are in the first two, WELCOME!! Let me tell you a little about myself.

For the first part of my career life, I worked as a paramedic. Like Jimmy Buffet says, "Some of it's magic, some of it's tragic" but it was an honorable, rewarding career field. I eventually moved into the safety side for oil drilling companies and have been doing that for many years now. I must prefer the preventive side rather than the reactive side. Working with people from all over the world (Asia, Africa, Europe and the good ol' USA), I have found a lot of common themes in my attempts to get people to work safe. 

I have found many approaches from other fields of study that make a positive impact. That is what is is really about--making a POSITIVE impact. People generally want to enjoy their work and be satisfied with their accomplishments. Making Workplace Safety a part of that enjoyment is a truly effective way of keeping workers safe.

Thank you for reading my blog and I hope you find some useful tips for keeping you and/or your employees safe. 

Christopher Smith