Safety With a Twist

NAOSMM Conference (7-22-08)

Tara Grove and Victoria Sample (NAOSMM members)

 

Tips discussed during the session:

 

Food and Drink Ideas

·      Give away “Pepsi Twist” at “Safety With A Twist” presentation

·      Hand out candy bars-

o      “Don’t Snicker at Safety” (Snickers bar)

o      “Safety Is a Team Effort” (3 Musketeers bar)

o      “You Can’t Put a Price on Safety” (100 Grand bar)

·      Put together “warm up to safety” packets with tea, hot chocolate, coffee, etc.)

·      Hand out microwave popcorn packets – “Don’t Let Accidents Pop Up”

·      Hand out chewing gum- “Stick to Safe Practices”

·      Hand out Pepperidge Farms goldfish cookies or crackers to folks “caught” working safely

·      Safety comes in “cans” (I can...you can...we can)

·      Kudos bars for safety kudos

 

Presentation Boosters

·      Use cartoon images and/or fun quotes that mimic lab situations in presentations

·      Use actual examples of faculty errors/safety lapses in training sessions

·      Pay students to take safety training

·      Safety speaker/presentations John Drebinger - www.drebinger.com

·      Play games during safety training (e.g., Wheel of Fortune, Family Feud—use safety topics)

·      Use photos of folks doing things right and wrong in presentations

·      Use pictures of bad safety examples (available on internet) in presentations

·      Test various goggles and safety glasses with water (squirt gun) during a presentation

·      Decorate a pan of brownies while blind-folded to demonstrate the importance of eyesight

·      Throw out candy during presentations for correct answers

 

Miscellaneous Ideas

·      Post cartoons (e.g., Ted Goff cartoons)

·      Issue “Safety Tickets” (like traffic tickets) to those violating safety rules [available via Flinn Scientific, Cat. No. AP1557

·      Check out positivepromotions.com website for lots of safety promotion giveaways

·      Challenge students by offering $100 (or less) if they catch you not working safely

·      Have a goggle decorating contest

·      Award movie gift certificates or lottery tickets for working safely

·      Have a dinner at the end of year and present safety awards

·      Award the Golden Sharpie prize for compliant labeling

·      Make “Why I Work Safely” buttons- bring pictures of why you work safely (family, etc.) and make buttons with the photos

·      Make safety related crossword puzzles via www.crosswordweaver.com

·      Ask vendors for freebies (t-shirts, pens, mugs, etc.) for giveaways

·      Incorporate Staples Easy Button (staying safe is easy)

·      Hand out pig pencils for bad housekeeping

 

 

Christy Schaller	Quiz participants and throw out candy or small prize for correct answers.
Raymond Tyler	Gives away many of the trinkets received from NAOSMM and other venues to attendants that contribute
Sandy Katsahnias	Tye-Dye lab coat for first TA to finish all safety requirements
Karen Rodda	Start seminar with short humerous video of common lab accidents-then discuss why the humerous is actually serious to think about.
Scott Smith	Search youtube for funny videos of what not to do.
Jo Wagoner	Tell the story of the Mad Hatter when talking about Mercury.
Carlos Cabello	Posters with funny safety reminders.
Mary Collins	Serve food with training-increases attendance.
Sheryl Konrad	Mix it up-always something different.
Penni Beitzel	Have students decorate goggles
	Decorate lab coat contests
Sherry Isenberg	Funny stories about really silly (stupid) things that cause accidents.
Kathny n Quashnock	Posters of Uncle Sam to wear goggles.
Mitch Spear	Added photos of graduates and undergraduates doing the "wrong" thing in lab as an icebreaker.
Mike Princer	Food afterwards
Phil Waite	Pizza party afterwards
Barbara Neff	Train work study students with actual examples of professor's errors.
Lori Keen	Use clickers
Carol Bouman	Poster: "Prepare and Prevent" instead of "Repair and Repent"
Elaine Ault	After pointing out safety shower/ eye wash, student is blindfolded and helped around the room to demonstrate how long it takes to get to the safety stations if needed.
Teresa Arnold	Humerous safety bulletin board and memos- that get the point across
	Sacrasm and Demotivators- shocks them into paying attention.
	Gives out Gummi Rats.
Connie Kramer	Amusing pictures and enthusiasm
Jacki Tylka	Mini quizzes- all students with correct answers get their name put into a hat and winner chooses a prize.
Robert Bishop	Let your people help in the class.
Jennifer Bachman	Do the "methanol cannon" demonstration (safely of course) to show flammability of solvent vapors.
Elaine Guerra	Allow students to put out fires using fire extinguishers in safe, controlled environment.
Dave Ross	Offer food-Make your own ice cream sundaes, Rootbeer or orange floats.
Janet Buswinba	No fun-just very scary
Ginny Sari	Students get paid to take training and to attend the EHS lab safety training- 3 hours total.