Comments on: Safety Third – Huh??

By: Chris Harris

Chris Harris — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:00:44 +0000

Good stuff, thank you for the share, more than liking your work, please keep coming with more here.. you are awesome indeed.

By: Steve Fisher

Steve Fisher — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 01:46:26 +0000

Dear Mike,

Your “Safety 3rd” is reality, and speaks the truth, plain and simple. It should be incorporated into all safety training and practices abroad. I have been in the construction for twenty four years, and safety is our responsibilty, as “individuals”. Anyway, “great job”; keep it coming!

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By: James Pickett

James Pickett — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:18:07 +0000

I dont know where you get the greatest ideas in the world but this one is pretty cool. I understand what you are saying and i admire that. I watch your dirty job shows and i play games on the discovery channel, and went to your website http://www.mikeroweworks.com and i looked for a job i picked the electrical one and it helped me alot so thank you mike rowe and keep doing a great work. If you can, send me a posture with your signature to my email address it will be cool. thank you.

By: Doug Kelley

Doug Kelley — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:01:03 +0000

Mike I agree with 100%. It seems these days production is the main prioraty. We are trained on safety evereyday but sometimes (every day)We do things that the ordinary person would think was crazy. Dont get me wrong I work with an awsome crew, we are brothers. But it seems safety is third.

By: Janice Baker

Janice Baker — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:49:48 +0000

Mike,
As the others have said in so many words, you speak the truth! When I was a kid on a very small farm I remember riding on the back of a drag (trailer with multiple spikes instead of wheels)–standing on it to give it weight to dig into the ground we were drying to level. I felt off and in between the spikes. Fortunately the tractor driver saw this and stopped before I was hurt more than just a few scrapes and bruises. I suggested to the driver that we load some logs to weigh down the drag instead of using a 90lb kid. I convinced him finally when I explained that way I could be free to drive the truck to town to get hay for the horses at the same time (I was 14.) So, while I am not advocating dangerous child labor or underaged driving, I am a big advocate of common sense and getting the job done one way or another!

By: Byron

Byron — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:00:35 +0000

Mike, I work in the shipyards. I’ve been a shipfitter, a lead man, and a foreman. I’ve given so many safety training sessions it isn’t funny. I always tell people that the single most important safety device is YOURSELF. You have to be aware of your surroundings at all time, and you have to try to have eyes in the back of your head, too. Last thing I tell the workers is that every time someone has an accident, that it wasn’t an accident. That someone forgot or ignored the safety rules. And last but not least, those rules are written in blood…don’t make it yours.

Thanks for all the things you do, Mike, I really enjoy seeing you. And FYI, you are the best grand marshall a NASCAR race has ever had!

By: Conor Cook

Conor Cook — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:20:25 +0000

There was an article Nov. 15 in the UK’s Times Online newsite about health and safety inspections of family homes. It will essentially allow inspectors the ability to enter particularly risky homes to see if they are safe for children. It quotes one fellow as saying, “bad parents will now have someone else to blame if they don’t bring up their children in a sensible, safe environment.” Seems particularly applicable to Mike’s comments about safety, and it illustrates just how pervasive and perverted the emphasis on safety has gotten.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6917328.ece

~Conor

By: Pamela

Pamela — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:47:30 +0000

Bravo Mike! My husband is always saying, “The world needs ditch-diggers.”

You have identified one of the major reasons that this country is headed in the wrong direction. Other “less developed” areas of the world have much more skilled laborers than in the US. Now, I’m not knocking the hard-working men and women that you film and work with every day. It’s just that, in my opinion, most Americans ‘don’t want to get their hands dirty’.

The real issue is liability. The US is an incredibly litigious, profit-driven, and opportunistic society. Such is the nature of our way of doing business.

If you have time (which I’m sure you don’t), check out the documentary entitled “The Corporation” and you’ll see what I’m referring to.
Best wishes,

Just another fan in Long Beach, CA

By: Rick Farr

Rick Farr — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:52:33 +0000

Well it is Saturday and I am working as the Inspector of a Pier and Ship Terminal being built in San Diego, and your comment about watching out for ourselves and it being our duty hit right on the head (No pun intended). Keep up the get work and keep Dity Jobs alive.