Cooking Safety Begins With Me Not Cooking
It goes without saying that the best way to maintain safety in a kitchen is to keep me out. But I said it anyway, and as it happens, the theme of this year’s […]
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A Fractured History Of Firefighting
On this 100th anniversary of Nation Fire Prevention Week, I thought I’d take a quick look at the history of firefighting. You might want to brace yourself, we’ll be moving fast. Fire was discovered by […]
Drive Safer and Get a Divorce?
In January, we switched our car insurance and in doing so, we received a request from our new company, Liberty Mutual, to download their “safety app” so they could measure our driving skills. I hate […]
Fire Prevention Didn’t Stop Last Week
I’ve barely had a moment free the last several days, and completely forgot last week was Fire Prevention Week. (A lot of its normal activities, naturally, were curtailed by COVID. Little meanie virus.) So I’m […]
Other Masks We Need
The widespread use of face masks has helped to reduce the spread of the Coronavirus around the world. Properly fitted N-95 and surgical masks catch microbes which people expel in a plume of air and droplets when we […]
Fire Prevention: A Light Look at a Serious Subject
Fire Prevention Week is here, a time in which we try to – wait for it – prevent fires. Of course, Fire Prevention Week should go on year round, but if it did we’d have […]
A boomer’s view of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
Abraham Maslow (1908 – 1970) had a pretty compelling reason for becoming a psychologist. “I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane,” he said, in a glass-half-full kind of way. Before […]
Friday Humor Devotional
Dear Lord, please forgive me for my repetitive face palming toward my dimwitted NASCAR buddy. When I asked him if we could talk and have open discourse about the safety direction of the track, he […]
Despite Crashes, Air Travel Still Extremely Safe on Planes That Do Not Crash
Aviation experts around the world have united to issue a joint statement concerning the safety of air travel. They say that despite recent airline crashes, it is still extremely safe to fly on planes that […]