"Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote in message
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While there are still "incidents," from the available cost
data it appears investment in [re]training, including short
"refresher" courses about occupational hazards has a high
return, by reducing equipment and product damage, employee
death and injury, and liability for customer injury, for
example food born illness.


No less frequently than annually, we gave a full-day seminar on
safety,
handling, and general precautions regarding fireworks and fireworks
compositions. Sometimes, depending upon how many new employees we'd
hired, we'd give them every three months. Yes, each new employee was
given a one-on-one lesson in such, although the more spectacular
(and
expensive) demos were reserved for the formal group reviews.

The new employees were awed by the 'accident' demos, and the older
employees enjoyed the refresher, the luncheon, and the day's pay
without
actually having to 'work' for it.

We also had a company-wide policy that ANY employee, including the
most
junior recruits could stop any process being done by _anyone_ (even
their
own supervisor or a manager), if they perceived it as dangerous. We
had
a protocol to resolve such stoppages, which occurred only four or
five
times in the ten+ years I managed the company.

The two methods together paid monumental dividends.

Lloyd

Can you comment on the Black Mag accident?