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Safety Wars 8-12-2024 Olympic Recap
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So as it's running, so we're going to assume it's running, and we're going to say a prayer. Hah, that's what we're going to do here. Anyway, okay, good, we are on the air, on Safety FM. As it was pointed out, we see by Jay Allen on the great Safety FM, great at ours, safety shell on Safety FM, that's our morning news program here on Safety FM. This is primarily an audio, right? Now, I wouldn't do, we recently changed our hosting site here for the podcast, and, no, I tell you, don't come to a lot of faith into the podcast analytics programs, because it's really, I mean, you know, I get stuff in there, feedback and everything else from, no, so I googled myself or I have other people googled with me, and what do you think happens? No, I find out, you know, you're getting European heard in this country, this platform and everything, it's like 40 different platforms, something, put you out on, and, but anyway, I wanted to give a shout out to my European listeners, now, because, you know, according to the new software there, we got stuff going on in Belgium, we got stuff going on in Germany, we got stuff going on in Poland, we got stuff going on in Hong Kong and on Southeast, that's not Europe, that's South, you know, in Asia, you know, all around the Pacific Rim, it's great. No, sort of like that movie money ball where the Brad Pitt character gets told by the end by the statistics guy, yes, baseball reference, now, you hit a home running, you didn't even realize it, you know, thank you for the listeners out there, I do this because of you, and spreading the message of safety and self-empowerment and how do we manage this stuff and everything else, that's great. Or if I had a really move no internet connection out at where I was, and we had a full schedule last week where I spent the week at Cooperstown, All Star Village, outside Oniada, New York, you could Google it, it's a great place, my son had his last 12-year baseball tournament on the small fields out there, team did great, very proud of my son, very proud of the team and all the coaches and everything else that were involved and the other parents, this, no, usually there is no controversy with this stuff, but the actress Alyssa Milano had released on her Instagram and other social media, a fundraising thing, right, for her son, and she didn't mention what tournament it was, because she didn't, you know, there's security issues and other stuff related to what, you know, she does, right, I get into some of that myself here and I know some of the other podcast hosts here, you know, host of podcasts, there's a security issue, you do anything online, there's a security issue, you gotta watch out, you get a lot of crazies out there, and she didn't say where she was going to be, but it turns out that she was at Cooperstown, All Star Village, I believe the week of July 19th, or thereabouts middle of July with her son, anyway, she tried to do fundraising for this whole thing, and people said, "Well, you're a millionaire, you should, shouldn't be doing this, you're doing this around." And there's a lot of, okay, I get the point, she's a millionaire, great, but how much do these things cost, do you think? It's like, well, what do you mean Jim, how much do these things cost, you know, it's a baseball tournament, how could it, you know, what's the big issue on here, on how much, you know, it costs? It was, for this tournament, it was, well, you're right, I thought I was off the air here, for this whole thing, just the entrance fee was something like north of $30,000, I don't have the exact number, but it's north significantly north of $30,000 per team here, so there's a lot of money to be raised, and for someone to say to her, "Well, you should have trust, no, roll out a $30,000 check and be done." Well, she's coming from California, from the West Coast. Now you got travel, you got airfare, you got hotel stays, you got everything associated with that. There were a number of teams, and this is only on a New York, and I know I'm mispronouncing, but anyway, there, no, it's about 40 minutes away from the Cooper's Sound Hall of Fame for baseball, which we went to. I mean, this is a big expense, we got a whole bunch of people out there coming out of the West Coast. I mean, these teams come out there to play, so I can tell you this much, that she's probably paying a lot of money for that organization to be a part of, that organization. I'm not belaboring, I'm just saying it with that. There were reportedly teams from other countries, not during the week we were there, but other weeks there were teams from other countries coming out there for this 12-year baseball tournament, and a lot of costs and everything else. So I could see her putting the word out to raise money for this whole thing out there. Was it worth it? Yeah, I'd tell you what, it was worth it, it was phenomenal experience. If you're going to go somewhere on vacation, how much is that going to cost you? Nice vacation, probably the once-in-a-lifetime vacation, the same thing, this is once-in-a-lifetime event. Probably roughly about the same amount of money out there. So we fundraised, we did not, no, did not cost us out of pocket really other than time. We fundraised the hell out of this locally. We did not use our social media on this platform under safety wars for it. Well, there were some other things done by the team, and conflict and interest type stuff. We don't do that, but phenomenal thing. Now, we're going to talk about the Olympics. Now, this is a safety show, not an Olympic show, or a sports show, and blah, blah, blah, blah. Guess what? It's a show about what I find interesting. Well, Jim, it's not all about you. Yeah, but guess what? You got to find this, no, if it's not interesting, it's kind of hard to talk about, especially today, when you have a migraine headache. And I am here with the bright studio lights from here, six lights on me here, up five, one went out, six lights on me here with the migraine headache, and not so easy here to deal with. A lot of stuff going on here. So here we have, and, you know, I can't put this up here because they're all, you know, they're not government websites, so I don't, I try to avoid putting them up here. So with this, so now you're on, you know, but you get to see me. Anyway, Australian breakdancer's academic background exposed amid a controversial Olympic routine. Dr. Rachel Gunn, better known as Ray Gunn, no, she didn't break that dancing. She got a score of zero here on her breakdancer routine. I, you know, it's gone viral on here, but I tell you what, I got a lot of negative comments because I put on my Facebook page, which is public, end of it. The Jim Poelzel, P-O-E-S-L, don't smell it like the Jersey makers did, which we had to have new jerseys printed out for the tournament. They had, you know, I sent breakdancer, I had heard about it a little bit, and I turned it on, and I said, you know what, this is actually pretty good here with this. And I said, you know, it's, I think it was a positive thing. Those are people who are competing. They're representing their countries. They qualified, whatever the qualifications were, to go there for the country, maybe an international group, what have you, fine, they want to compete. There's a lot of people, there was a marathon runner from Brunei, came in last in the woman's marathon. Okay, so what, she came in less, she came there, she said I came there to complete the race, not to quit. Same thing here, I'm, I'm pretty positive. Now, what they're saying here, and they're riffing this woman apart, is that she is a academic, right, they question her credentials. Okay, I'm going to put it out there this way. My opinion, Jimmy's opinion here, nobody else is not the networks, or anything else, Jimmy's opinion, right? The, this is a man, I don't think that they would be saying this, my own opinion. This is sort of like the whole Dr. Biden controversy, where Jill Biden wanted to be referred, not as the first lady, Mrs. Biden, but as Dr. Biden. If she earned it, let her be, let her, oh, Dr. Biden, okay, you may not like it, I may not like that. Well, she wants to be called, that's what he called. The way I was brought up, and where in a community where my mother had some, had some friends and associates, where the women were PhDs, and the men were PhDs. And I tell you what, if I said anything, call them Mr. or Mrs. or Miss, or anything other than Dr. I got a stern talking to you by my parents. They have, no, they earned whatever credential they have, you're going to refer to them as doctor. And if you, and I don't care if you're everywhere, everyone's laughing at you, when you go over to play at their house, and you call them doctor, I don't care, you're representing us, and it's going to be doctor, period, end of discussion. And now they're saying they're going to, she's going to use this stuff as, you know, part of her, part of her, for academic reasons and studies, and it, okay, she wants to do it, that's fine. She wants to do that with the, with this, and use this information. Other people are going to use it, she put in whatever work she did, and doing this and everything else. Other people are going to be talking about it, we're talking about it here, it gets what? Good for her, she went out there, she represented her country, she had, okay, some political stuff. So for us to go and say, well, the Olympics is not political, and no shame for, on her, for bringing in political stuff, I have all this here, I made here. Okay, here, here you go. Right, so I, on my social media, I referred to an article from Ward Panda, right, and this is what it is, Regan is not the, that's her name, Regan, Dr. Rachel Gunn, Regan, right? I think that's pretty funny, but anyway, pretty original, right? It's not the first person to use the Olympics as a platform. Have we forgotten the 1980s miracle on ice, right? US team of amateurs, fights the Soviet Union on ice, they win the thing. You don't think that that had anything to do with politics? You don't think that we've been running on that high for how long, going on 45 years, that's up and coming winter? Come on, of course the use of politics. And then we had the Boycott and the Moscow Olympics by the United States and other people in the West, I forget all the countries that we boycott it because the invasion of Afghanistan was the reason we were told. And then the Soviet Union boycotted the 1984 LA Olympics because we boycotted the 1980 Olympics. I mean, come on. How about the civil rights movement at the 1960 Mexico City Olympics? By the way, I used to know one of the people there who was there protesting named G Larry James, he was the athletic director at Stockton, then Stockton State College and I was Stockton University, AKA the burn. It was also on the Cosby show, when they did a thing about the pen relays one year, which I did not see at the time when I saw many years later, right? But let's face it. She did not make a scene. She was not interested in antagonistic. Everybody had fun. If you look at the crowd and everybody had fun and you know, let her do her thing. No, and I'm, you know, everybody had fun. That's all I have to say. Why rain on other people's parade? I do now. I got a lot of more conservative people out there. Jim, you should, this is horrible. Breakdame, Seattle Olympics is not horrible. Come on. You know, it's good out there. Now onto other Olympic news. We have Olympic legend Carl Lewis says no athlete should return to the Olympics after the embarrassing USA track and field performance. Okay. This is something I know a little bit about because I did track for eight years. Look at all track is a team sport, but it's not like other team sports. It's like a team sport with individual performances, especially with a relay. Now, a lot of these folks that are on the national team, they have to qualify. They have to qualify for this. How do they qualify? They go to what are called the Olympic trials, right? So the Olympic trials. And when they go on the Olympic trials here, they do the Olympic trials. They compete in everything else. And for most track athletes in their goal is from high school on not to make the Olympics so much. Yeah, a lot of people that want to make an Olympics. Well, we realize that there's not a lot of we realize that there's thousands of athletes going for three spots in your event. Very difficult. Most of the athletes want to go out there and they want to get to the Olympic trials or the national meets where they have a wider pool of things. Right. And that seems to me a little bit more of this. So when these teams get chosen for their events, when their teams get chosen for their events, you're only dealing with people who might have known each other only for a short period of time. They don't have a lot of practice time to do the event. And the big thing here with the four by 100 meter relay race is done on a track. And you have to hand off the baton within a certain distance. All right. So you have to hand out in a certain distance that we're getting around to the safety portion of this, right? Honestly, all right. So they had a problem here with with this, right? It was called an illegal pass Christian Coleman crashed into teammate Kenny Fedonarek while making the exchange between the first and second leg. Coleman also handed the baton over the outside over outside the exchange rate exchange zone, therefore going against the rules. The rules state as for world athletics, who governs track and field, the baton shall be passed within the takeover zone. Passing the baton commences when it is first touched by the receiving athlete and is completed. It completed the moment. I'm pardon me. It is in the hand of the only receive of only the receiving athlete. All right. And anything outside of that is called a takeover. All right. This is according to this website. And I did not talk to Carl Lewis myself, even though it's from Willingborough, New Jersey. I did not. Right. And it's time to blow up the system. This continues to be completely unacceptable. It's clear that everyone at USA track and field is more concerned with relationships than winning. He added no athletes should step on the track and run another relay until this program is changed from top to bottom. Doubling down on his disappointment, MVC Olympics, Lewis Johnson reported that Lewis was furious. Furious. And this is according to a reporter. Carl is furious and he is angry about multiple things. First of all, he's angry about a system that is not set up to help the athletes from the United States moves forward and do well. Right. Okay. I can agree with that. Track is like one of the most. You only see it every couple of years here. He said if no miles was out sick with COVID, they should have just replaced the anchor leg, meaning the last leg and nothing else. For the fact that they reordered the entire relay, had him worried and in the end had him upset. People are now online campaigning for Lewis, the coach, Team USA. Please step in now and everything else. Okay. Now. This is what I want to point out. They only have a small amount of time to practice from the end of the unless they they've been on the same team and everything else on the runners. Right. From the Olympic trials to this other countries, they have a lot more time to practice. They're doing this all the time. Their teams are chosen way in advance. A lot of these countries. Now let's talk about this. Were they in the lack of knowledge mode? SKR in the rules mode or the skills mode for here. Again, they're concentrating on on their concentrating specifically on their own individual events. And this is like an ancillary event. And it's always assumed the United States is going to win this event or at least metal in this event. So it comes out to this, right? My suspicion is that my suspicion is that they did not practice enough on this to get into that skills mode. But even so, I don't think you're going to get into that skills, but I think it's only going to be rules. And let's remember human error is normal. Let's not belabor these guys doing this and the mistakes or any other Olympic athlete out there. Not right. And of course, Monday morning quarterbacking is right or Monday morning coaching. In this case, not useful and blame and everything else, a lot of blame will go around. And I'm sure this is going to be analyzed for years on end by people work experience in this event than I am. But again, I'm going to say this, we got 14 golds in the athletics. So we're going to talk about that next here on Safety Wars, we're going to move to our first commercial break. From the front lines of the safety war, it's safety wars with your host, Jim Possel on Safety FM, get ready to face the harsh reality. Is your safety training old, stale and hacky? Is your safety trainer still preaching a warped version of behavior based safety? How about safety training that actually addresses your hazards in your workplaces? And it's not standardized baloney from 25 years ago, contact the safety wars team at safetywars.com or call Jim Possel at 845-269-5772. Remember, if you're receiving this message, you are the solution to unsafe workplaces. Have you listened or watched the safety warship? It does stream live on the radio and on the streamer eemers that we have. So if you have not taken a listen to Jim Possel and what the hell he's doing every evening with safety wars, I would strongly encourage you to take a view or take a listen, whichever option is available for you and take a listen to what the hell he has going on. It's definitely will take some deep dives and some information that you might be interested in. Okay. Hold on. Ocean recordables, catastrophic losses, environmental disasters. Do you want answers? So do I. This is Jim Possel with safety wars. That's my daddy. Okay, we're gonna get the ocean news here and let's talk a little bit more about the Olympics here because these events, again, I'm biased toward the throwing events because we're normally not covered here, but we're gonna cover them here on safety wars. Here we have, uh, do, do, do, right? Arshad Nadim, who won the javelin throw. Jim, he's not American. He's from Pakistan. Okay. Yeah, great. He's from Pakistan, but there's something to be learned here about this. This is not only an inspiring story, but it's a commentary on the way we act in the West and maybe your organization acts here. This guy. All right. He was out there making his own javelins. He had no money here. He even had to go to social media for a new javelin here. Believe me, the javelins are not are not cheap. We're talking thousands of dollars for some of this stuff. And depending on how your, how far you throw, you need a different weight on that. So God knows if you even a guy had the right javelin half the time, let me was fortunate enough to have this, right? Came from a small village, uh, training over there in Pakistan. We know that it's not easy. He went over there. This is what he have, his father said. Initially, we improvised so many javelins by using long eucalyptus branches with iron tips on the end. The fields in our village served as our training grant. We developed our own weight training apparatus using iron rods, canisters of oil and concrete, right? Ahead of the Olympics, the dean revealed that this is from NBC news that he had been training with the same old broken javelin for years and successfully appealed to the Pakistani government for help securing new equipment. Even his Indian rival got involved speaking out to help Nadim, right? And he went in there and guess what? He won, he won the javelin throw. Congratulations. Now what, what do we have to learn here about our organizations here? Always the new thing, right? We were talking, we're talking about this. When this type of thing, human organizational reform, behavior based safety, uh, reporting, auditing, uh, air sampling, this that we talk about all this crap, right? In the air and everything. How about we get back down to basics? How about we not go to work to get people hurt? Doesn't that seem to make more sense than anything else? Because there are people in your organizations, I assure you of this, right? I assure you of this. There are people in our organizations out there. Many organizations lie at a lot of workers. Well, we were, this is a high risk job, but we got to expect to get hurt, and that's okay. Hey, this is a high risk job. People are going to get hurt. That's all there is, so people are going to get hurt and that's okay. Back in the day, they used to project how many people are going to get hurt and what the payout is going to be. That's going to, that was all factored in there. Things have changed a little bit, but I can tell you that, even though officially, companies are not doing that anymore, there are still companies and organizations out there that are out there to hurt people that are okay with it. We covered this all the time on some of these stories. We had a story a month and a half ago where a guy got very partially buried in excavation. This employer was thrown stuff at him, not to literally throw stuff at him. I don't know how come he didn't get assault charges filed on him. For him not to call OSHA or call 911 or 911 if you're out there in the middle of the country. All right, there we're out there. All right, that's a little joke guy. All right, don't be emailing people, but we have people out there that are okay with that. Just the way it is, you other countries, they're okay with people getting hurt. Now here we have some other stuff. Valerie Allman beat out the competition by a lot, by like seven foot in the women's discus to defend her discus, her discus gold medal from the last Olympics. Again, I'm going to say this with her. If you want to learn to throw the discus, watch Valerie Allman throw. So if you are just starting out, watch the way she throws. There's probably nobody male or female that could do that what she does that perfectly out there at that level and that high profile. I'll add that. I'm sure there's people who could do that. You know, that's what no all of throwing websites same from what I can see with this. All right, hammer throw finals. All right, again, Americans did very well. I knew the before this meet, the best appearance in a hammer throw, which is relatively new event for women in the Olympics was by a her mentor. One of her mentors is a listener of this program was Amber Campbell out of Myrtle Beach, Myrtle Beach. All right, out of the Carolinas there. But here we have a net and K actually what kind of walk. Sorry, I'm mispronouncing that. I tried, I practiced. I came in second. Got a silver medal in that best. Right. Congratulations to her on that. All right. Now let's go on to let me do this. You are listening to safety wars tomorrow safety today. And since it's Monday, we're going to be re-recording a lot of this stuff. So this is safety wars broadcasting to our brothers and sisters in the occupied territory of behavior based safety. Get out your secret decoder ring. Here is your nightly message. Human error is normal. Human error is normal. Right. Human error is normal. That's your secret message out there. Now we talked about this last week here where we had an internet outage here in the area in my neighborhood. And where is I just had this? Okay, here it is. This came out today, this afternoon. And it's important. We talked to the internet and asked outages, how do we get information? It's through radio. And what happens is, especially on the large thing, and we covered that probably worth covering again. On this, I did a deep dive into emergency management with radio communications about a year ago. Cars and cars are phasing out. Car manufacturers, AM radio. And some of these countries, I believe in Sweden is one of them, that they got rid of radio entirely, and they are using satellite radio for everything, and internet radio. Like on Radio Big, Live 365 on Radio Big, and on our other thing which is part of the safety FM network's family of stations here. Great station. I listen to it all the time. But they're phasing out stuff. So here we have Audacity has announced a licensing deal with good karma brands in which the company will move the programming of ESVM New York 98.7 to 880 WCVS effective on August 26th. LMA will, LMA, the LMA will see 880, and it's 57 year run with all news just two days shy of its anniversary, and change the call letters to WHSQ. All of the content currently heard on 98.7 WEPN, FM will move to 880, with the station retaining Audacity's production and New York Met Space Vault. Okay, that was one of my questions. Deal takes effect as good karma's leads from MNIST communications for 98.7 comes to an end. So we're losing news station. So what's the big deal? And as one of our listeners pointed out on here, there were a lot of issues here with AM radio with these way, these antennas are set up where there were parts of New Jersey where they were being over driven by Canadian stations, Montreal stations, which all a test do is true. So how, pardon me, how I have a drinking problem. I don't make the mouth every once in a while. So how, no, so that's basically it with that. AM radio is being phased out. It's going to be with that and I lament that day and I'm going to fight against it the best we could. There's some stuff in Congress that people, you know, bills and everything to retain AM radio, but it's an essential part of our emergency management system here for the country. Here, so here we have space for perspective and veils mothership vote for stratospheric balloon trips. This was, so this is basically whether there is, and this is from last week, I'm going over some of this. Space for perspective has announced the completion of its new marine transit space where stratospheric balloons will take the entire rapid tourists to the edge of space. The vessel marine space for Voyager named in commemoration of Voyager 1 and her cell of home mission, I'm not Star Trek series up two years to build. Now, I'm going to point out, you know, they've been doing this a high altitude balloons for some times, but if you look into it with some TV shows like Star Trek, they actually did a episode on this. Voyager, and here, it was Star Trek Voyager episode 61 rise, where they did something similar to this with a space elevator. Again, this is years and years ago, that's why I watched Star Trek and a lot of the other TV series out there that really, you know, covered a lot of these topics many years ago. Now, Star Trek Voyager 20 some years ago. Another show out there, that's off the air, sliders, eerily, eerie, it's eerie, all the scenarios that they had with that in that TV show. Maybe we'll do a program on it. COVID. Now, again, this came out last week, and this is from NPR. Is COVID endemic yet? Yep, says the CDC. Here's what that means. Four years after SARS COVID-2 sparked a devastating global pandemic, US self officials now consider COVID-19 an endemic disease. At this point, COVID can be described as endemic throughout the world. This means essentially COVID is here to stay in predictable ways. So they're training us more like a cold, sore throat, strep throat, all the seasonal stuff. I hit the cloth button that time, I made it. But all this other stuff as a normal part of life, I can tell you that I know of one medical facility in Central New Jersey that had 27 out of 35 people get COVID that were patients there. Pretty scary stuff, and that was two weeks ago. So again, no deaths, thankfully, but they're saying that they anticipate COVID will be killing about 50,000 people every year, which is roughly about the same number as the common flu with this, and the flu can be common, right, called common here. This is how to pour some other COVID related stuff out of today. The CDC reports that wastewater levels of COVID are considered very high across the US. At least 26 states are either high or very high for COVID-19 infections. The data shows that summer's COVID-19 levels could pass the previous two summers. The CDC says sewage can be tested on traces of infectious diseases, and I'll add polio too, because that's when we talk about a couple of years ago with polio outbreak here, and diseases could be found even in people, right, they're talking infectious diseases in general, and all this stuff. So it was, no, that's not surprising there. That's probably an easier way. I think it seems to me that they're trying to build an analog out here, where people are not a lot of companies, a lot of my clients still have COVID protocols out there, and people that now that we have an incentive not to report COVID, because nobody wants to be out of work, and so now companies that want to have people reporting COVID or anything, because they'll have to implement different, they'll have to implement different things and production goes down and everything else. Here, so again, so I think they're developing an analog, lost my train of thought there, not surprising, an analog where they're trying to figure out, hey, where are our areas for COVID there? So, no, trying to track it a little bit easier when people are not reporting things, because everybody's got to go, has got to do, you know, right, natural bodily functions. Kind of hard to cover that up. The US Centers for Disease Control War CDC, a lot of CDC news out there, report public, CDCs really east. The biggest cause is mortality in 2023, the report published by the agency on all the states was based on death records from national vital statistics system, meaning somebody, you know, has to report this, probably medical examiners. So here they are, heart disease, right, cancer, all right, and we're looking at, right, what is it, 500,000 deaths plus, all right, unintentional injury, stroke, chronic lower respiratory diseases, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, 100,000 a year, kidney disease, right, and then chronic liver disease, and then lastly, COVID, 1950,000. What's not on here, and I think it's because they deal with three models, is what we talked about here. Workers dying from workplace illnesses like cancer, which are long term, 50,000 a year, according to OSHA. So something to think about, folks. All right, yeah, something to think about with that. So if the 50,000 were holds, then it's about the same number of people of COVID, die of workplace illnesses. Okay, CDC got smacked upside the head, find the courts the other day. A federal judge ruled Friday that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has likely been breaking federal law by deleting former employees emails soon after they leave the agency. The ruling was issued by district judge Rudolf Huntress, this is the story from the Hill on a lawsuit filed by Trump-aligned conservative group America's first legal foundation in April. Huntress found that the CDC was following a records retention policy that had not been approved by the National Archives and Records Administration, NARA, and allowed former low level employee emails to be deleted within about three months of them leaving the agency. Again, they said in 36 page opinion, and they said it was unlawful with that. Now, a lot of these organizations, especially on the right leaning organizations, are investigating, and according to, you know, are investigating a lot of this stuff, and this is, these emails are subject to discovery. So for example, one of the, one of the, I'm known, some pretty weird OSHA cases out there, some real, really weird stuff going on, all right, where clients of mine have done, without my knowledge, Freedom of Information Act requests from OSHA on, you know, why are they getting targeted? Why are they in the targeted industry? Why are they this? Why are they that? And sometimes they get some information that maybe they might not were not supposed to get on things, dealing with organizations, not individuals. It's, I believe, it's a felony to release the individuals' names who make a whistle blower case. You know, they could find out, but not through normal channels here, I think. But anyway, with that, so I don't know, you know, people want to know, and again, these low-level emails, how much do we find out on low-level emails? Look at the whole thing with WikiLeaks, where we had evidence of deception in the global warming or global climate change arena from intern, from researchers that said that they have to exaggerate things. Again, that did irreparable damage, in my opinion, to the whole debate here. This is a story, came across, came across LinkedIn, I don't know when this was, however, I shared it on our LinkedIn gym-polesal, P-O-E-S-L, right, like my name. This is from here, I don't know the veracity here, I'm just going to use names here, you know, I'm not going to include company names here. A safety officer arrested after contract labor's death at a power plant. A 54 year old, this is from Jor Zukka, I believe that's in India. A 54 year old safety officer at a power generation unit has been arrested and forwarded to court in connection with the death of a contract labor at the plant. The incident occurred early Saturday morning, when a worker fell into a blast furnace while on duty at the plant's unit. The arrest was made under blah, blah, blah, they referenced the case. Anyway, the safety professional was detained for his alleged negligence that might have contributed to the acts and the case highlights on going concerned about safety protocols and labor conditions. The tragic death has raised questions about the safety measures in place. All right, so I don't know what the laws are or anything like that in this country here with this, but we do get into this thing. Well, we're going to blame the safety professional for everything, right? We've gotten into that and I include and this has been expanded recently based because we're always learning new things. This is what I have written in every contract and sometimes when I'm a direct hire, I have this written directly into the contract here and this is more or less my get out of jail free card and attempt to have a get out of jail free card because what happens is these companies have a tendency of blaming the safety professional for everything. Well, we have a safety guy. There's a one company that's a Japanese country that a company that we've all heard of that one of my friends got fired from and they said, well, we were a safe company. We have a safety guy in charge of everything. What do we know? We're a production. We don't know nothing and he had no authority to hire, fire, reward or disciplined employees or make changes to company policy, right? Did not have it in there. Had he had it in there, then he probably could have sued them for wrongful firing and this is what I do. Do I have the authority to hire, fire, reward or disciplined employees, make changes to company policy or anything like that and I need to know what my exact responsibilities are because this is what happens. Especially in states like New York that actually prosecute people, safety professionals and confident persons. I don't have the authority. I told this guy multiple times. I told this person multiple times when I'm full of protection equipment. I told the company to do X, Y and Z to get the right full of protection things. There was one job I was on in the recent past where I had designed an entire full protection system for them off the shelf, got on the phone with the manufacturer. Hey, blah, blah, blah. We're going to do this. Hey, this blah, blah, blah, blah. Know what I got back? We've huge and we're not doing this. Okay, put it in writing, but it's on record. I told you to do this because it's impossible for any safety professional, me or anybody else to stand out there all day long and remind people to put on full protection all the time every two minutes. And you won't discipline them. I can't fire them. I can't discipline the most I could do. Let's take a photo and send an email to. I'm not going to be, but I tell you what, if someone would have fallen, guess what? Jimmy, it's your fault. Again, you got to document this stuff. I don't know how that goes here. There is a fire chief recently retired in Northern New Jersey that always tells a story where he was in building inspections in New York City back in the day, 1980s, and he had noted a whole bunch of problems that he was a low level guy. He loaded all these problems, came into his supervisor, supervisor, did nothing with him. As far as building codes, there was a building collapse with fatalities, and somebody went and stole all of his records out of his file cabinet, like the file cabinet was empty. And he's, man, I'm going to go to jail. I'm going to go to jail on this one. Monday morning comes around. One of his coworkers comes in, and this guy's like, dude, I'm going to get fired here. I'm going to get, I said, don't even worry about it. This is what I did. Here's all the original records. I photocopied because I saw what was going on here. I stayed late that night. I photocopied it. Remember, 80s, no cell phones. I photocopied all your notes and put the photocopies in the file cabinet. Here's all the originals and all your stuff. And he got out of criminal, likely criminal charges on this. So that is why you have to write everything down and document. And the smart phones, right? One way of doing that. And again, what were they doing with the CDC here? Go back. No, people, that's all part of the public record. Got to keep those emails on there. And a lot of conservative groups are out there researching them. Have we heard about this whole thing where with the astronauts out at the ISS, where they go out there, and they're not, they're going to be up there for months and months and months out there with, you know, they can't get down because the Boeing, apparently the Boeing spacecraft that they were in or whatever they were in did not know they're having issues with it. So they're trying to figure out what they're going to do. This I came across. This is an older story from 2019 from NPR when I was looking up something else. But if we recall, there was a ridge lapse in Tennessee in April or March of 2019. And this is a report here that cites from the American Road and Transportation Builders Association that more than 47,000 bridges in the US are in poor condition and in need of urgent repairs. Why do I mention this? The report said it will take more than 80 years to fix all the bridges. Now, a friend of the program, he's been on this program, Murray Savren said, who I used to volunteer for when he was running for political office, said several times, he was asked a question, how will we know when we are close to financial collapse in this country, when the group know hits the fan, where can we have problems? And he said when the infrastructure like roads and bridges don't get fixed, tidbit there. That was 2019. They had that with that. I can't imagine it's gotten better, even though we have every week we were having stories here about the American rest or one of the acts that were funded by Congress in 2021 build back better, I think it was called with that. That's still 47,000 bridges. Now, my question is this, go to your local municipality or city and do some research. This may be worth it to find out how the bridges are in your area. I believe the state retains that information, unless they're the CDC, then they erase it. I'm joking. I'm joking here. Okay. Now, we could save these stories from OSHA for tomorrow here, except for a couple of them here. So federal court blocks Southern California logistics companies retaliation against workers interference with federal investigation. The US Department of Labor has obtained a preliminary junction court order forbidding a company from threatening or retaliating against its workers and further interfering with an ongoing federal investigation. When the investigators from the department's wage and our division showed up at the company, a work site, the company removed workers and hit them for hours at a local, if you got to be kidding me, the company removed workers and hit them for hours at a local fast food restaurant until the investigators left. The company then instructed employees to work across the border and across the border before firing them and deleting proof of their employment from the computers. So this is pretty funny here. In a way, right? Oh, the people came from investors. Okay, we're going to evacuate everybody, put them in a local fast food restaurant and then we're going to send them across the border in to Mexico from San Diego, and then we're going to fire them and delete them from the computers. Wow. The division is investigating whether the company paid workers at its California warehouses in pesos through a Mexico-based affiliate. This is a quote from a western regional solicitor, Mark Pilleton in San Francisco. Despicantly, the company, and I'm not mentioning the company, he does his quote, "obstruct in a federal investigation by hiding workers for hours outside at a fast food restaurant to prevent them from speaking with investigators." To obstruct further employer and its Mexico-based affiliate instructed these workers to work in Mexico before terminating them and deleting records and an effort to cover up his violations. The preliminary instructions stops the company from doing the following. Retallating against any employee, but believed to have spoken to a labor investigator, interfering obstruction or deterring any employee from cooperating with the investigation, contacting or threatening the contact family or friends to keep workers and speaking to investigators and destroying evidence. They were also told to resolve all information from all electronic devices that were deleted and federal law protects employees working in the U.S. even if an entity outside the country hired them. The domestic employers that jointly employed such workers like this company ignored the principal at their peril. The Pilleton added, "The U.S. Department of Labor will hold employers accountable when they violate workers' rights and obstruct investigations, regardless of whether those workers return home across the border after the work day." And it goes on and on and on. Again, don't mess with these people. They have a problem. Here we have out of and upstate New York. This is from another Department of Labor thing. After an occupational safety and health administration, whistleblower investigation, U.S. Department of Labor's officer and the solicitor filed suit against an eye doctor in his practice, March 2022, alleging they illegally fired an employee concerned about the practices failure to implement state-mandated protocol. I thought they were optional. State-mandated protocols to protect employees from COVID-19. Again, I thought they were optional. Isn't that what we're told the narrative now? It's called the gaslighting narrative. We never told anybody to do blah, blah, blah, blah. Oh, how come there's legal action against them? Well, explain that one to me. The court agreed that defendants had retaliated against employee-based on protected activity. The court permanently forbade the company and the practice from future violations of OSHA, anti-retaliation provisions that required them to prominently host a notice from employees stating that the employers will not discharge or in any manner discriminated against any employee for engaging in activities protected by the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. The court also ordered the company to pay a contempt fine of $250 for court discovery violations. In other words, right? And it goes on with that. So that's all I got for tonight. I wanted to thank everybody for the continued support of this program and the safety FM network. And we will be seeing you later this week and we're going to go to our outro. You have an intro. We have an outro. So we will see you tomorrow. 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