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SAFETY SATURDAY: AIR QUALITY
Will you remember the famous men who had to fall and then rise again? So take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again - Pick Yourself Up, by Frank Sinatra Humans are mammals, and thus require oxygen to stay alive. The primary means of cellular respiration in humans is driven by oxidative phosphorylation, wherein oxygen plays a crucial role in allowing the cells of mammalian tissue to metabolise the necessary energy compounds required by t
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4 days ago10 min read


MOJO
Since Persia fell at Marathon, The yellow years have gathered fast: Long centuries have come and gone. And yet (they say) the place will don A phantom fury of the past, Since Persia fell at Marathon; And as of old, when Helicon Trembled and swayed with rapture vast (Long centuries have come and gone), This ancient plain, when night comes on, Shakes to a ghostly battle-blast, Since Persia fell at Marathon. I've only run one marathon in my life and it sucked the whole goddamn t
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Dec 31, 202521 min read


BRAVO DOMENICO
You've gone Gone and made a beautiful hole in my heart - My Very Best, by Elbow I was debating whether or not to write anything to...
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May 24, 202512 min read


SAFETY SATURDAY: THE NECK
Wu-Tang Clan comin' at ya Watch your step kid Watch your step kid (protect ya neck kid) - Protect Ya Neck, by The Wu-Tang Clan Work of...
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May 17, 202510 min read


SAFETY SATURDAY: WORK-LIFE BALANCE
“I leave my brain at [the] gate when I arrive, and pick it up at [the] end of [the] shift...” - (Parker, 2014) Contemporary work is an...
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May 10, 202510 min read


SAFETY SATURDAY: MANUAL HANDLING
Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert. - B. K. S. Iyengar Work is often physical,...
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May 3, 20259 min read


SAFETY SATURDAY: OVERTIME
I hated to pay overtime. I hated it. I shouldn't say this, but I wouldn't pay it. - Donald Trump Workers attend to their jobs for a set...
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Apr 26, 202513 min read


SAFETY SATURDAY: TRIPS, SLIPS, AND FALLS
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars....
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Apr 19, 202512 min read


SAFETY SATURDAY: WORKSPACES
We’ve learned that people develop physical problems when they have to adapt to their work areas rather than the other way around. - R....
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Apr 12, 202516 min read


DUTY OF CARE
Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. Defend the rights of the poor and needy - Proverbs 31:8-9 Every...
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Apr 10, 202510 min read


SAFETY SATURDAY: WORK DESIGN
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relatively to other such matter; second,...
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Apr 5, 202510 min read


SAFETY SATURDAY: THE WORK ENVIRONMENT
And it's go boys, go They'll time your every breath And every day you're in this place You're two days nearer death But you go - The...
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Mar 29, 202513 min read


SAFETY SATURDAY: RETURN TO WORK
So bid farewell to the Eastern town You never more will see There's self-respect and a steady cheque In this refinery You will miss the...
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Mar 22, 202511 min read


SAFETY SATURDAY: LIGHT
The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in...
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Mar 15, 202515 min read


SAFETY SATURDAY: NOISE
…Which meets all motion and becomes its soul, A light in sound, a sound-like power in light, Rhythm in all thought, and joyance...
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Mar 8, 202513 min read


SAUSAGE PARTY
The Lord compares Himself to a grain of mustard seed, sharp to the taste, and the least of all seeds, whose strength is extracted by...
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Mar 6, 20259 min read


SAFETY SATURDAY: VIBRATION
Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep...
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Mar 1, 202513 min read


SAFETY SATURDAY: LOWER LIMB INJURIES
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat...
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Feb 22, 202513 min read


SAFETY SATURDAY: UPPER LIMB INJURIES
Put your shoulder to the wheel. Aesop In the 2022-2023 reporting period, the largest proportion of serious claims by body location...
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Feb 15, 202513 min read


SAFETY SATURDAY: TEMPERATURE & HUMIDITY
The whole climate is changing … Temperature is just a bit of it. John Holdren Humans are warm-blooded species - they maintain a...
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Feb 8, 202512 min read
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