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Safety Wars Live 9-9-2024 Disaster Preparedness Storms; Don't believe your own propoganda
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Tell you what, uh, no, around this time of year, we always hear all these back to school type things out there. You know, you need to go out there and watch, uh, having children doing this, and watch out for children playing in the street, and watch out for them. You know, you hear all this stuff, and it's like, unbelievable, you know, that we still have to hear about this stuff, where people wouldn't have more awareness for people, you know, they can wrap up with what they're doing, they're just human error, like we always talk about, and everything else, uh, out there. So this past weekend, an area that I'm very familiar with, Salem County, there were two people killed on, uh, going out for a bike ride, I used to bike ride and sail and candy all the time. It was a story from other today, uh, then today we had a little child, uh, run over by a car, uh, one town over at Ramable, and then it's a horrible, horrible thing. So what are we talking about tonight? This is the disaster preparedness moment, so, uh, on our last broadcast, we talked about what? We talked about medical type stuff, now talk about what you, uh, talk about what you know. That is what I always see. So, uh, by the way, before we go any further, right, we have the one promo. So, here, now we always play, so you can, uh, here you go, Ocean recordables, catastrophic losses, environmental disasters, do you want answers? So do I. This is Jim Poelzel with Safety Wars. That's my daddy. Now usually, uh, come in and say, yes, Jessica, I am your father, and as a play on, uh, uh, no, the old Star Wars Empire Strikes Back line, well, we received some, uh, bad news on the way home this afternoon from one of my projects, uh, James Earl Jones, an inspiration to anybody with a speech impediment, especially you stutterers, uh, who played numerous roles, right? Many, no, it was in Field of Dreams with Kevin Costner, he was the, uh, Darth Vader, uh, for almost all the movies, I think, all eight movies, uh, there, the last one, he was, you know, just not able to do it as my understanding if I recall, if I'm recalling that correctly. Um, he, you know, he passed away, uh, in New York City today, I believe it was the New York City, uh, wanna, you know, rest in peace, and I tell you what, his life's story was actually pretty interesting with that, where he was born with a severe stutter, and his teacher, uh, one of his teachers in school, so the story goes, obviously a teacher in school, but anyway, uh, had, uh, had to read something, it was for a part they were doing a play, and everybody was shocked, uh, with reading he was good, speaking conversationally not so good, and, uh, as someone with a speech issue, I tell you what, it was, uh, you know, him being able to overcome that was important because you have representation there of people who, with that type of speech impediment, uh, for me it was a stacy, stacy case, and it's important, not so much for the person who has that problem all the time, but it's very important for the parents of that person to see that there's hope, and I did not realize that until, uh, my wife and I were having, uh, lunch at a lunch or dinner, I forget which one it was at a restaurant that we were frequently at when we first met and when we got first got married in White Plains, New York, and we were having some type of celebration, I don't know what exactly it was, uh, and what, uh, what waitress comes up to you, says you don't know how much it means to me, uh, for you to be there, right, so well, well, I'm like, okay, she says my son was born with a cleft lip cleft palate, and he, uh, and, uh, no, he was just born a couple of months ago, and now I have hope, right, and that's what we're here about, is, uh, you know, giving each other hope, supporting each other, now, in that safety war, especially, I hear, uh, I got into, uh, a conversation with one of the friends in the program here, uh, today, uh, he didn't say I could mention his name, but he, uh, one of the friends in the program, and he had said to me, uh, everyone's burned out, because, uh, yeah, I know what that is, we burned out, uh, and we're all, okay, not working, that's fine, uh, now, we're all burned out here, uh, because we're seeing the same problems over, and over, and over, and over again, uh, with all these, uh, job sites, I said, well, this is what part of what we're doing here, is trying to support each other on this program, and, uh, as a resource, and everything else, so, just wanted to, uh, share that recipe with James Earl Jones, now, FEMA, right, uh, has this thing, Disaster Preparedness Month, every program, we're going to try to do something on disaster preparedness, uh, we're going to talk about, uh, uh, uh, we're going to talk about storms, right, uh, because right now we, there is, coming up the coast, uh, darn found, uh, right now coming up the coast, uh, of the eastern coast of the United States, it's hurricane season, and we're getting, uh, hurricane season everywhere, typhoon in the Pacific, we're having a lot of stuff come up here, storms, and, uh, there was, uh, from the last storm, there's still people who are friends on social media that still have no power, they have no utilities, uh, they're involved in what we call a Category 2, we're a Category 3 disaster now, preparedness scenario now, we're going to be in there after, uh, no, from 0 to 24, uh, that's what I call scenario 1, scenario 2 is like 24 to 96 hours, there are bouts, and then you have 96 hours to 30 days, they're in that area, and that's a totally different thing to prepare for, especially if you're in an area, uh, like the Jersey coast, the like Florida, all the North Carolina, all those states on the east coast, and do I have to list them all because I'm hearing all this stuff about people not knowing their geography, you should be saying shame on you, but anyway, so rather than going out there, and you know, you're involved in this, so this is often what happens, I don't, often that always what happened back in the day, uh, before, uh, before, uh, uh, uh, uh, super storm sandy in this area, and now we're getting back to pre-super storm sandy mentality, right? So we have, now we have a situation, oh no, a storm is coming, a storm is brewing, it's coming up, it's coming to get us, oh now everybody run out, and what do you get? When there is a winter storm, snow, hurricane, uh, what have you, it's coming up, it's coming to get you, and you're gonna run out to the storm, what are you gonna get? You get this strange urge to go and make French toast, because you're getting milk, you're getting eggs, you're getting vanilla extract, that's the secret, vanilla or lemon extract, and you're getting bread, white bread, wheat bread, whether you're out of white bread, now we're gonna week right now, uh, how does it taste with, uh, rye bread or pumper nickel French toast, I don't know, and you're running around and doing this and doing that, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and it's nutty, you're like going completely and totally nuts, right, and, uh, no, I have a picture of the last storm we had, winter storm, the major one, it seems like all of the chips were, so now there's this thing where we have to go, where we have the need for chips, and salsa, and sour cream, dip, and pretzels, and everything else, you know, it's crazy, so, no, you, no, no, now people will know, okay, what am I gonna need, so, how long does it take to prepare for disaster? To prepare for a major disaster, you're talking two to three weeks, that's for the normal ones, fires, wildfires, floods, storms, things of that nature, so let's start out what you're gonna need, you have a major storm coming up, refer back to Friday's program, or we talked about the medical information for the elderly, and everything like that, and people with mobility issues, that is who you have, the person who is the least mobile in your household, or who you are responsible for, is what you need to prepare for. Number one, number two, let's say that your spaceman has a history of flooding, right, like ours does not, and did not before super storm sandy, apparently, where when super storm sandy came through in 2012, I think it was 2012, ends up flooding the area and raising the water table up by two or three feet, and the water table now has a new baseline, or a base flow, base height, base depth, whatever you wanna call it, so now houses that have no history of ever flooding, I'm on top of a hill, now all of a sudden everybody is flooding, right, so now that's a new normal here, so we ended up getting, we ended up getting a couple years back, three inches of water in the basement, and I tell you what, three inches of water causes a hell of a lot of damage, so the question is, if you know, now you have a, we didn't need a sump pump, never flooded here, well guess what, now we have two sump pumps, and we have, what do you call it, we have all the methods and means I'm clearing out of flood here, but we will never get higher than three inches, here with the way the basement's designed, so again, what do we do, we make sure everything is off the ground, make sure the pumps are running, make sure that we have a method and a means of powering those pumps, if power goes that, because that's a major issue here, we need to have a generator strong enough to pump all the water out of the basement, pump the supply power to the sump pumps, one there, one here, and to pump all the water out, very, very critical for us, we have to make sure we have enough fuel for the generator, how much fuel are, now you got a generator, you got a power outage, how much fuel do you need, do you, where are you going to store it, where are you going to store it safely, where are you going to get some type of gasoline stabilizer in that fuel, so it's not all full of water, it's where you're storing it, it's not going to flood out, all of this stuff has to be decided ahead of time, and when you have an impending storm, now you have to go in and you have to figure out, right, what the impending storm, right, hey, we're going to have three or four hours, we're gonna have three or four days, it's coming up, let's go get our supplies, let's put our gasoline where it needs to go, let's put, no, maybe some people are having enough money to get a whole house generator, there are companies out there that do that, how are you going to fuel, all this stuff comes into it, next thing is, do I have enough extension cords, if I have a portable generator, do this the electric and good shape, are those cords in good shape, if you have a larger generator, or do you have a ground spike for that, every year, I think there's some like 400 people a year in this country, the United States, that die from carbon monoxide poisoning, and what happens with carbon monoxide poisoning, they take the generator, they put it in the house before you know the exhaust, because there's incomplete combustion from a gasoline engine, and they fill up the house with carbon monoxide, they end up going to sleep and dying, it's a major problem, that's what you need to prepare for, now we've on with food, what are you gonna need, we know, you know, assuming that you have, your community has its move node together, you're going to go out, and you're gonna go out, and have 96 hours of food available, why is this important, 96 hours, because that's when they figure they're gonna be mobilized, I can tell you this, in a major disaster, it's gonna go a little longer than that, like it did here, so what do you want, you want canned food, things that you normally eat, that stuff that you are is experimental, you want to make sure it tastes good, you're gonna prepare it properly, doesn't need to be heated, doesn't need to be cooked, what is the deal, so usually, and again there's no guarantee here, the refrigerator after loses power, often I always hear that will last between 12 and 24 hours will remain cold, and same thing with a freezer, now, guess what, now you have to have discipline with, especially if you, now usually the preppers out there have discipline, not so much the people that they have in their, other people in their household, toddlers, now keep the refrigerator closed, they keep the refrigerator closed, they keep the refrigerator closed, not gonna work, so what do you do, gotta have discipline on that, open it up only as necessary, now as far as the gas lines are concerned, usually they tell us as long as there's not a rupture, and in the storm there may be a rupture if you have natural gas lines coming into the house, usually two to three days, this is what they're just saying, I wouldn't try it out, I would find out a method of food, whether you're gonna have cooking, eating up food, whether it's gonna be a propane grill with a portable propane tank, is it going to be a, is it going to be an electric thing, do we have some type of barbecue, do we have campfire, what do we have a fire pit, right, what, how is this, don't forget if you have canned food that those electric can-overs aren't gonna work, so well, go back, how much fuel, gotta calculate through a dry run, so to speak, and calculate what you're gonna need, find out for the generator, again, with that, now let's say that you're dealing with weather extremes, you're in the middle of winter, you're in the middle of summer, summer, a little bit easy to manage in a disaster, you're just gonna find a way to stay in cool, in the winter time, how do you stay warm, especially if you don't have a fireplace in the house, wood burning stove, things of that nature, right, or any, any, no, yes, they do make wood burning boilers, but you need a permit for that, and everything else, now you have to worry about pipes freezing, how are you gonna mitigate that, maybe, and I'm not, again, I'm here to appear here, maybe you need to look at how are we gonna heat up those pipes, how are we gonna keep them from freezing, because what happens is, yeah, okay, we're good, it's cold, but now we're gonna have freezing pipes, and now we're gonna have a flood, that I've been in many situations like that over the years, not what we personally, but I've had to respond to emergencies like that with freezing pipes, alright, let's go to commercial break, let me catch up, I have to get some, uh, something to drink here, and I will be right back. 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If you're up in the Rockland County area, you could come and visit me and we could... No? You can attend. If just send me, no, contact me and we'll go there and I'll give you information. The same thing is on October 25th, the A.S.S.P. of Hudson Valley is going to be hosting their professional development series at the Rockland County Firehouse. All day event, you get 0.6 CEUs for that, reportedly. I can't guarantee that, but that's what I'm told here on their paperwork. But anyway, so food, what are you going to do, right, preparing it and everything else? The next thing, creature comforts. Think about it. Creature comforts. What do you mean, Jim? I'm not going to tell you this. I know this from Superstorm Sandy and some of the other disasters we've had here. That's the big one because up here we were out without anything for 11 days. Big one is clean clothes. Are you going to say, Jim, what's the big deal, clean clothes? Well, if you're going to be messing around with a generator or anything else or doing a storm cleanup, make sure you have two sets of clothes, a work clothes, and then you have whatever else doing whatever else clothes. Now you're going to say, well, what do you do as far as clothes? I said, when I know that there is a storm coming, I make sure that we do one thing, laundry, I take laundry, number one, number two, make sure all your kitchen utensils are clean. Make sure you don't have any dirty dishes, because maybe I don't have the yad to the problem. And number three is showers. Okay, we're all going to take nice long hot showers because we may not be without, we may not have a shower for a couple of days at least. Those are the creature comforts. The other thing is this, and I always have, right, the radio, transistor radio, how are you going to communicate? Cell phone towers may be at, do you need walkie talkies? There are many different brands out there, and there's many different options for communicating without a cell phone. And the other thing is, what are you going to do to occupy yourself? Only things are a little bit easier, because depending on the time of year, because when it gets dark out, you go to bed and when it gets laid out, you get up. Really easy. What are you going to do outside of that? You have a whole society addicted to these things, cell phones. Guess what? These cell phones, only four emergencies for receiving calls. Are you going to put call forwarding on all the cell phones to go to one phone? That way you only have one phone on at a time? You make things last? Are you going to have supplemental batteries out there, all different types of external battery sources that you can have for that, some better than others? I mean, I have a product that's good for like five iPhone charges, three to five, depending on what you're doing, the size of the iPhone and everything else. I have another battery that's good for like 30 cell phone charges, not 30, 40. Also supplies power for everything else. How about your batteries for these transistor radios? Solar panels, solar panels, and these things are LED lights. I got studio lights here that are LED. Those are all part of our plan because they use the least amount of power when we do have the generators. That's where the LEDs come in handy, and before that, the CF compact for us and bulbs, right? CFVs, I think they work right, little squiggly things with mercury in them. No, they're great. Less mercury towards the end, but I got one of these, anyway. All of these things, all of these things have to be thought of ahead of time. What are you going to, because I tell you what, people are going to go stir crazy. It used to be with the cigarettes, right? You'd always hear people, you know, growing up. We had in the Cold War, no hell, the cigarettes would become a commodity. Right now, nobody smokes. Very rare. A lot fewer people, especially in the Northeast, smoke. I mean, still get people smoking, but not like it used to be. Well now, I predict the new thing is going to be cell phones. Where are that? Everyone's without a cell phone. Now, what the hell do you do? Right now, I am converting all my family members, one of my family members, once all of the CDs converted over to mp3 files or putting them on an mp3 player, it does one of smart phones. So everything that's going on to an mp3 player for them. That's, you know, that's a space, so that's another thing that we're doing here, how you can entertain our books, games. Again, that's the psychological problem that people are going to have. We went about a month ago here, where we had an internet adage here in town. People were freaking going nuts. I had to hear from families, Jimmy, we were just looking at each other for hours and hours and hours. We didn't know what to do. There's one of our listeners out there, right, who, during the pandemic, she got at her Christmas card list and she wrote everybody Christmas cards and greeting cards. That was her way of Leslie, her name. That was her way of finding something to do, right, during the pandemic, right, to keep her mind going. Not only she got tired of reading, she got tired of watching TV, I, you know, will comment on that after this. Got tired of watching TV and, you know, she had to find something I could buy her time. She started writing out letters and greeting cards and things of that nature. And again, what do you do? I would hope on a certain level that you go out and you help your community and help those less fortunate. Stand together. And that's all I have. 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Safety is everyone's responsibility. It's about creating a culture where safety is ingrained in everything we do. As safety professionals, it's our job to lead by example and inspire our teams to commit to a safer future. Thanks for tuning into Safety Wars on Safety FM. Stay safe out there and remember, every day is a new opportunity to make a difference. Catch you on the next episode. So, we're going to talk a little bit about politics. Like, well, trim this out of a political program, I think at this point, it's at least my world. It's becoming very interesting here, politics, with everything. By the way, all of the new music here is all royalty free, so don't go warning me here. We only use royalty free music. And what the issue here is this? Why are we talking about when we're getting very close, are we people who are starting to lose their minds? This is sort of like last September when I did a program on the logistics of getting together a political campaign. That reminds me I got to send that program out to some people are asking for a link to it. What the idea is, people I'm seeing are getting wrapped up in their own propaganda. You're starting to hear, we already have confirmation bias here largely, where we screen our news, so we go to news sources that confirm what we believe, what we want to hear. And this is actually a real, starting from a real safety issue, a safety mental safety, but also a threat to our republic. People came to call on democracy, we don't live in a democracy, we live in a republic. Local level democracy, federal level republic. And it's becoming, as I see it, seeing it a real threat because this is what is causing a lot of the vision in this country is this, right? I, we were always told, Gen Xers, not so much baby rumors because they were involved in the cultural revolution of their own, but the Gen Xers, hey, learn about other people. Learn about what they're doing. I talk, I continue to hear that. So I'm willing to hear the other side, and maybe I will change my mind. That's wishful thinking on my part, if I think that's going to be with most other people. Most other people that I deal with, they have their mindset, their ones going to deal with that. And we're going to talk about that leadership in the very near future, especially on October 25th, a SSP event right down the road for me here in Pomona, New York. The, no, they're not going to listen to you, basically. So they get more and more ingrained in what they hear because now they're getting more and more, they're facts and it is not a left or right wing thing, it's a both thing. And it's starting to have a problem because people are getting to the point where they're not listening to reason. I think that is what we're fighting for here is reason here, where you have just gone crazy year. And so I, no, I'm trolling for lack of a better word. A lot of the political sites through Facebook groups and some of the LinkedIn posts that are out there, even though that's a professional platform and some of the other ones. And you get from both sides. Oh, well, Mr. Trump could never tell the lie and can never do this, blah, blah, blah, blah. And that Kamala Harris, boy, is she a liar and she lies on this, this, this, this, and this. And then you go to the other side, well, Kamala, Kamala Harris can't tell the lie. She's a, no, a fountain of truth and no, she'll never tell I and that other guy tells only lies. We're in reality, where's the truth lies here? Somewhere in the middle here. And you got to make your own choices based on what your own values are, where you want to go to. Why not to let other people influence you? Well, most, one of the things with COVID, what happened here was people sat down and they said, what's the belief in my doing? Why am I doing this? My life stinks. Can I reinvent myself? And especially in the restaurant field and the food service industries, what has happened? Very difficult to find servers anymore. They lost all their servers. Rather, as a new crop of servers, and guess what? They're a little bit different. Right now they demand a tip. Right. Here, Mr. Poelzel, here's your, here's your, uh, uh, uh, the, the card reader and right off the bat, it says, uh, 25% tip, 10% of 15% of all the way down. And when you look at the receipt at the screen, you know, let's say I go out with another family. We were already, already over six or seven people going for dinner again. So they're all, the tip is already, already in there factor in there. And they want a 25% on top of that. I mean, that's a little bit nervy in my opinion, but no, what am I going to do now? And they were reflecting, they're acting accordingly. This is where we have a lot of the social upheaval we've had over the last couple of years, especially in a diversity, equity and inclusion, uh, topic that we talked about so recently. So people don't do that anymore. Back in the day, people would talk about politics. People would have difficult discussions today, people don't want that. And that's one of the things they're always fighting with the safety war that we're talking about in the workplaces. Everyone's to have uncomfortable discussions. No, we're just going to get along. We're just going to get along. Well, when we don't have discussion, debate, dissension, anything like that, that's when you run into a problem and that's what we're seeing here where dissension isn't even allowed with this. They don't discuss politics, don't discuss religion and don't discuss, uh, money. Oh, so what do, what do people talk about? They don't talk about any of those three. So what do we have? A financial crisis? We have, uh, you know, a political crisis with a non, as Sheldon Primus correctly pointed out, we have a government that doesn't function on the federal level and on both majority of the states. We have people who don't talk about religion. Oh, well, religion is not important. Oh, really? Religion is not important. Do you think that it's what, what do you think is going to happen? If you don't talk, let's broaden it out, morality. What do you think is going to happen when we don't talk about morality and religion? My opinion, I think this is again, very controversial. We're not going to, you know, where we had, you know, what he wants to talk about it. Very controversial. They want, well, what happens? Now we have laws and we have prisons because we're religion, regardless of what that religion was, we're trying to keep people in check talk about moral type things, don't, my own faith tradition, the 10 commandments, right? Don't kill. Don't do this. Can we fall short? Absolutely. Now no one wants to talk about it. One thing I'll say about some of the other faiths out there, Hindu, Jewish, I don't know too much about the Muslim faiths, but there's probably a lot of truth in that too. People talk where this is the truth. People talk and discuss things. The Jewish and Hindu, I know that's true, philosophy, anything like that. And again, so what's my point? Getting back to it. I went into the weeds, getting back. We have people out there believing their own propaganda. And guess what? If things don't turn out their way, I don't care if Mr. Trump or Kamala Harris wins. Things don't turn out their way. We're going to have a freaking problem here. All right, by the way, I'm on both mailing lists for the Democrats and Republicans. So I know what I talk about, what I speak about. So this is the other thing. This from study finds is from click storage, Chris Miller wrote this article talking about the change in electoral map by the year 2100. When 2024 being an election year, plenty of people are sizing up, you see it in America based on its impact on the electoral college. Remember, if you're not from this country, we vote for electors. And no, probably we shouldn't post the other program. From last year, since the population of each state helps to determine this number, it really does matter when people say they're moving to a red or blue state. With that in mind, a new study finds that the United States could see some major voting changes. So the company clicks storage, right, they run storage units. They are able to figure out because people are moving and they get a storage type thing, a storage area for their stuff, for the interim. Same thing with U-Haul is another one. And I'm not giving plugs, I'm just stating it like it is. So basically, things are being moved from the north, right, New York, Illinois, and even California, west, and they are moving, people are moving to Texas, right, Florida, California, despite recent changes, including Madison, Atlanta, 0.2 percent, 0.2 percent in 2023. They are going to grow by 53 million, basically around technology and the entertainment industry. That surprises the hell out of me. North Carolina doesn't surprise me. Everybody here has started leaving here in the mid 90s and moving down to the Carolinas. A couple of friends of the program did that. Here, Tom and another person, Don, right, here, moved down there. Here's the program. Mirroring North Carolina's trajectory, Georgia is set to double its population to 23 million, 681 by 2100, given what it's going to be. Even here in New York, right, probably due to the migrants over here that we're having the influx of, by 2100, everything is going to grow. So what are the top 10 states, Texas, Florida, California, North Carolina, Georgia, top five? New York is going to be another hub. Washington state is going to almost triple its population here. Arizona, more than double, Virginia, double, almost, Colorado, almost triple the things. So guess what, this is going to be an earthquake for the Electoral College map here. What does this come down to? This is going to, unless things change, this is where all of the campaigning is going to be in the next, over the next 80 years, it's going to be a shift to those states. The other thing is, as a real estate looks like it's going to be more valuable. Okay, what else do we have here? Jim, we want to hear about worker fatality. Okay, let's hear about it. Now, oh, this happened a while back here. This is mind-blowing for me here. So I do a lot of safety audits for tech companies. And so I could see this happening, especially when you have the hybrid work type stuff. So where you don't know who's going to be in the office from day to day, a woman named Denise Prudoham, 60, scanned into Wells Fargo in Tempe, Arizona on Friday, August 16th. By the way, that's a huge building there, if that's a corporal office. She died at her desk and wasn't found until the following Tuesday. People dying out where from a safety breach or from stress still happens much too regularly. Again, amazing, they found her there. How are you going to account for that? Do you have an accountability log? Who goes in and who comes out? Access control, something with that. And reportedly, she was getting a little bit ripe here, not to make a joke out of this. She started and they did this on odor. No, it's incredible here. Okay, here we have, and this happens quite often here. New York is very fond of its parkways here. This is a road that I drive fairly regularly. It's from driver charge and fatal wrong way crash on Hutchinson River Parkway was intoxicated allegedly. The driver accused and fatal wrong way collision on Hutchinson River Parkway in Westchester County was intoxicated on his phone at the time of the crash, according to a criminal complaint. And this happened in Rye, New York, right in the neighborhood of where my wife often goes to work. Again, I've seen cars do this and this could very easily happen if you're not paying attention like if you're on the phone or you get on to the wrong way. This happens once or twice a year. My question is this, there's got to be a control in place for this. Has to be some kind of control in place. No, I don't know. What's the thing? You're driving down the road, you have a single dash white line, right? And then you see all of the cars come in the other way. You see all of the backs of all the signs. You missed the do not enter sign or wrong way sign. I don't know. Being loaded, you know. Here we go. On September 5th, a long island mother was charged in her whopping 57th license suspension for a wrong way collision that killed her nine-year-old in late August. Two men were killed in Harlem in August 21st. After pickup truck came barreling down the wrong side of the highway. That was probably the Henry Hudson on that one. Happens. Fatal construction acts in near Bel Air claims life worker next to machinery. This is from a couple weeks ago. A traction accident occurred at a hillside residential construction site near Bel Air. This is California where a worker was fatally injured while operating at war working near heavily construction equipment according to multiple sources. The accident was involved. The man whose identity has not yet been disclosed, blah blah blah. Again, footage captured by a camera since the involvement of the truck loader or skid steer fitted with an auger attachment. The equipment was positioned at the base of a safe embankment where a tarp commonly used to cover the disease was seen adjacent to the means she needs shreds. I don't know what happened here with this. Now, might I have a sit down the hill? I don't know. There was really no update to this here with this, but I tell you what those auger attachments on a skid steer, very dangerous. I saw a video of one one time where someone was standing on silt fencing or on a fabric membrane for like a, what's it called, a garden, a garden bed. So the weeds don't come up. He decided it was all covered by like six inches of dirt. What happened? They're working with the auger and it sucks the guy into the auger and kills him. All caught on clothes, I'll close circuit TV back in the day. Okay, all right, what's that? Now I got a lot of emails and everything like this from this. Where is it? One dead and two injured. This is from Friday after a Broom lift falls and crushes a van in West fruit Philadelphia. One work here is dead and two others are seriously injured after a Broom lift fell on Friday afternoon West Philadelphia. The lift tipped on to sign a fell onto a van splitting the vehicle in half. I don't think that was the right way to describe it but it crushed it right down the middle. I think that would be a better way. Now, this is what some of the, so they're doing a big investigation. So I do, I do Broom lift and scissor lift training, your aerial lift, articulating lift training. Same thing goes for the forklift. What causes this stuff to fall over, do you think? The ground, all right, often. So what's the first thing you need to do as part of that, hold on telling people to be quiet here, all right. So you got to make sure you don't have soft ground. This equipment is very heavy, like 50,000 pounds from what I haven't seen with the one that they had here involved in the accident, I'm looking at the photos here, got to make sure the ground is solid that you're in. And the other thing is if you're in a cold environment or if you're, right, what happens in the morning you have frozen ground afternoon, you have the thaws out, the thing may flip over, roll over, that's an issue that you have to be prepared for with this. The other thing is this, there were three people in the boom lift, what's that thing rated for three people? I don't know, that's where I would be looking. And of course, what's the first thing that they're going to ask for? And it's a leading indicator that is often used by investigators is this. Where's the checklist? We're using the inspection checklist. That's what, you don't have an inspection checklist, that's a leading indicator that you're not a safe company to work with. Now that, you know, sort of like, here it is, right? You're wondering, no, they look at you like you're crazy on these drops. No, you got to make sure you have a checklist for that. Who says? Well, it doesn't specifically say in the ocean regulation, but you got to prove that you did an inspection. Only way you could do that is in writing. We're on video. Now, right, you can use the smartphone, they do have some good things. The other thing is this, go through the checklist, next thing they're going to ask for is training. Where do they get the training? First thing they're going to ask for is if you're on the street, was that barricaded off, either with a hard barricade or a cone? A truck, do you have a crash truck? Most companies that operate these things on the street have some kind of a crash truck. Is it overloaded? What was the wind speed on this? Were they, did they defeat any of the safety devices in there that made this thing go higher or lower on what's the age of this? When was the last time this was third party inspected? Did this have any recalls? And that's just the short list of what they're going to look for when it comes to a room lift out accident. Now my opinion, just my opinion, the more dangerous of the two between room lift and scissor lift is the scissor lift. Why? First of all, scissor lifts do not have a mandatory tie off. Certain sites have mandatory tie offs, but not all sites have mandatory tie offs here. So what happens is, they, what happens is people don't tie off, people think they can start climbing on, they get extra reach, they start climbing on railings, and they end up falling out. They're not a couple of accidents where that happened. So what I'm going to tell you, folks, is this. Make sure you have your stuff together all the time with this stuff. Alright, and that's what I'm going to tell you. Alright, that's all I have for tonight. 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