Safety 101 with Dave and Wes - Safety Stripes

Mighty Line Minute with Dave Tabar - Talking Safety, EHS, OSHA

Ep. 19 Safety Talk 101 Dave and Wes!
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Dave - Greetings everyone and welcome to the Safety Stripes Network. This is Dave

with Mighty Line and I've got a real talent on our show today. We've got Wes

Wyatt. I'll have him introduce himself because he's a guy that you're going to

want to know if you don't know him already. Wes with Warehouse Safety Tips,

It's yours.

Wes - Really glad to be on the show thank you very much for having me on Dave.

Dave = It's great to have you on. From the moment I heard your first podcast, I've been

impressed by your passion and enthusiasm, particularly in the area of safety. I

don't always come across that with people, but in your passion for safety,

how'd you get there?

I used to do private security where I would go into a place and they’d put me in

as someone that drove a tow motor around like to remove waste, or just

something that I'd be moving. One of the reasons that I had been placed there

was two-fold. One was because of sabotage, which is something that really

doesn't have necessarily something to do with safety as far as it does, just

people wanting to get out of working. It was a foundry. So somebody was

driving around a corner with molten aluminum and they went to an area where

there was a pedestrian crossing and because the person not only wasn't paying

attention, but was also high at the time. When they came through the area they

weren't supposed to be in they slammed on their brakes and the aluminum

spilled out and the person that was in the path actually died. It was a very, very,

sad story. I was happy to have not been there when it happened.

They had some pressurized compressed gas cylinders that fell down, and one of

the containers actually shot through a concrete wall. They had just a myriad of

things that were going on. I realized very quickly that it was something where

people were going to work to basically feed their families and control their

livelihoods. And that person didn't go home that night. It changed my mindset

quite literally, immediately, where I thought, you know what, this goes from

being you know, something where you hear it in a meeting to being something

where you don't ever think about not going home.

Mighty Line this Mighty Line Warehouse Safety Tips came up. It was a perfect

opportunity to put safety top of mind again, you know. Someone like yourself,

you're very, just immersed in safety. With me, it was more of providing a safety

mindset and top of mind, moving from not only having safety top of mind, but

how Mighty Line Line's products could help.

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