How Many Lives

Art Fettig’s Monday Morning Memo

September 14, 2009

In This Issue

o  How Many Lives
o Say Something Good
o Visit Our Website
o Points To Ponder
o A Little Humor
o Quote of the Week

How Many Lives?

I have a Distinguished Service to Safety Plaque from the National Safety Council dated 2002 and the metal plate fell off of it. I took it to the frame shop for advice and then stopped over at a friends repair shop.  He looked it over and then asked, how many lives did your program save during your career in safety?  Heck of a question. My answer was this, “I have no idea. They  just count the dead ones.”  It sure started me thinking.  I know that a lot of organizations called me in for a presentation right after a tragedy.  They would have a fatality and then hold a big safety meeting where I would talk and win a signed commitment from everyone in an organization but, although many of them called me later and told me about their excellent new safety record I never heard any of them say that someone was alive today because of my efforts. That is probably true of any safety person reading this today.  I’d sure love to carve a thousand notches on my microphone representing lives saved.  I have heard of instances of positive interaction which interrupted an unsafe act but no one has ever sent me a life saver’s award. Maybe that is why it took me 54 years of service in the field to win this award. Well, I got some fresh tape that is guaranteed never to dry out and the plaque is probably good for my lifetime anyway, such as it is.

Say Something Good

Yard sales.  There is something all American about garage and yard sales.  This is truly free enterprise at its very finest. I went out sailing on Saturday morning and met some really fine people. One lady was selling a very fine photo enlarger.  At lone sale they had just about everything a person could want including a stainless steel kitchen sink. A lot of the sales were at really fine homes and a number of homes in that area got together for a neighborhood sale.  Some people were just trying to get rid of their excess stuff.  More and more CD’s are coming on sale.  People today are buying fine CD’s and then downloading them onto their computers or their telephones or whatever electronic device they might prefer and they then get rid of the CD’s. I never buy much. A few CD’s, maybe a couple of books and some picture frames.  I never spend more than a couple of dollars but quite often I find a book or a picture that someone I know will treasure.  Maybe they will have it for sale at their own sale but that is OK too.  I’m just having a good time and making a few new friends.  May God bless America and keep our troops from harm.

Visit Our Website

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Points To Ponder

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. Peter Marshall

A Little Humor

A guy rushes out of a hotel and says to the doorman, “Call me a taxi.” and the doorman says, “OK, you’re a taxi.” The next day they have a different doorman. Humor doesn’t always work.

Quote of the Week

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. Gilbert K. Chesterton