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Staying alive until payday

Think first

My colleague had just shown a film on industrial safety to a group of apprentices and was busy rewinding the 16 mm film back onto the empty spool. Now these spools really shift and when the film came off the spool, Jim put his hand on the empty spool to stop it. The metal spool sliced into his hand. Neither Jim nor the apprentices forgot the title of the safety film – ‘Think First’.

We all suffer from such brain failure from time to time, avoiding an accident at work or in the street is more by luck than anything else. Sometimes we even know that it is going to happen and still carry on until it does. I remember scratching a line down a tile to help me to break it. The glazed surface was very difficult ...

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