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Dear Safety-Aware
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SIMPLY SMART (and AFFORDABLE) SAFETY ––– a la Teddy
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Today's SAFETY TIP marks the beginning of a series of articles inspired by something the American president, Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt, said:
"Do what you can, when you can, with what you have, where you are."
The purpose of the articles is to give struggling-but-eager SHE professionals and practitioners, who are working for financially-constrained companies, pointers on how to get the safety awareness message across to both management and workers, on a shoestring budget.
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The first step to achieving anything has to be: ELIMINATE THE EXCUSES.
Insufficient TIME and MONEY are the 2 main excuses for NOT doing "what needs to be done, when we can, with what we have, and where we are".
Think these are valid excuses? Let's see:
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We HAVE control over TIME. We CHOOSE if we want to spend time on something that is IMPORTANT to us by MAKING TIME for it - by spending a portion of the 24 hours we are given afresh every day on it.
(Consider a life-threatening situation - we will make time to survive.)
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The same goes for MONEY. Even the person living in a "mkhukhu" (squatter hut) CHOOSES to spend a portion of the little he/she has on that which is important to him/her.
(Often it is a cell phone because being able to stay in touch with others is important enough.)
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So, when it comes to SAFETY IN THE WORKPLACE:
MAKE TIME and FIND THE MONEY to do those things which do not cost a fortune
.... what I call The 10 ‘P’ Items.
I will be taking you through each 'P' over the next few months, so STAY TUNED!
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If you would like a copy of the EXCUSE LIST, reply to this e-mail with "Kill The In-Tray" in the SUBJECT.
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| I enjoy hearing from you, so do share your thoughts with me on this subject by replying to this e-mail. |
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