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The Panda Post, Volume 3
Say goodbye to summer, faithful readers. Fall is definitely sneaking up on us, and that means several things:
- It’s football season.
- It’s time for safety distributors to change the focus from summer-based equipment like cooling apparel, to warming apparel and other fall and winter-related equipment.
- Associated Panda is bracing for the brutal Wisconsin winter that is just a few weeks (or maybe even just days) away.
- Did I mention football season?
So prepare for the upcoming change of season. And if there’s an especially chilly day in the near future, feel free to print out this edition of the Panda Post, it makes for fine kindling. |
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NSC 2008 Congress and Expo
You probably don’t need me to remind you that the National Safety Council Congress and Expo starts this week. To those attending, have fun and learn something (preferably about safety). Bamboo Buchwald won’t be in attendance because cartoons aren’t invited. |
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September is Home Eye Safety Awareness Month
Workers wouldn’t dare grind sheet metal without wearing safety glasses. But for some reason it doesn’t always register that glasses just might be a good idea when you’re at home firing up the weed eater. |
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| Safety distributors should remind workers of Home Eye Safety Awareness Month. Not that everyone needs a visitor spec dispenser at their front door, but an extra pair for yard work wouldn’t hurt (the plastic army men that Junior left in the grass make for mean projectiles when the mower gets a hold of them). |
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Safety in 2033 Symposium: The Future of Safety
25 years ago Michael Jackson was selling millions of copies of Thriller, and Return of the Jedi was cleaning up at the box office. Since then, Michael Jackson has turned into one seriously odd dude and Darth Vader has gone from bad to good to bad again. Just imagine how far we’ve come in terms of the safety industry.
Get a quarter-century jump on competitors by finding out what the industry could be like in the year 2033 by attending Protection 2033, a symposium by ISEA and NIOSH. See all of the crazy safety stuff that might exist in the future. I, for one, plan on having a jetpack. |
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David Letterman, Jay Leno, and Jerry Laws
Okay, so Jerry Laws, editor of Occupational Health & Safety Magazine, may not be quite as well-known an interviewer as those other two guys, but Laws fares pretty well in his web TV debut. |
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| Occupational Health & Safety has a 30-minute program narrated by Laws called Keeping the Workplace Safe and Secure that can be seen at the Safe and Secure TV Channel, an interactive web source for safety information and issues. I’m no technology reporter, but I’m pretty sure that this whole Internet thing is a little more than a fad. If so, Safe and Secure TV might be on to something. Keep an eye on these guys. |
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Want to Enhance Road Construction Safety? Try Adding a Police Photo Van
You can outfit road workers with all of the hi-viz clothing you want, but if you want to enhance roadside safety enlist the help of a police photo enforcement van to slow traffic down. No one wants to get a speeding ticket in the mail, and that’s just what these Big Brotheresque vans can do. |
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Expect more from this tireless cartoon reporter (sleep is difficult considering I wasn’t drawn with eyelids) in the weeks to come. We at The Panda Post are here to keep you (semi) informed. |
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