Safety Tidbits 4/22/08

Focus on Safety
-Researchers determined the risk of death for belted front-seat occupants rose 400 percent when someone in the backseat was NOT wearing a seat belt.
-Everyday an estimated 1,000 eye injuries occur in American workplaces.
-On average, about 100 workers die from ladder falls, annually, and dozens more are injured. Inspect ladders prior to use and stay off the top two rungs of A-frame ladders.

Just do it
To have striven, to have made an effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle. We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, life. --Sir William Osler

Smoke Detectors save lives
Think Fire Safety. Check smoke detectors monthly and replace batteries twice a year. You should also keep a fire extinguisher in your kitchen. -- Fire Marshal Bill

Credit Card Fraud/Identity Theft
As many as 700,000 people in the U.S. might be victimized by identity thieves each year, the Justice Department says. It costs the average victim more than $1,000 in expenses to cope with the damage to their accounts and reputations, the FTC has said.
The number of identity theft complaints rose from about 86,000 in 2001 to about 162,000 last year. Forty-two percent involved credit card fraud. Other major categories involved fraudulent bank and cell phone accounts.

Quote of the Week
“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” -Norman Vincent Peale

Be Grateful for What The Good Lord Gave You!
-If you woke up this morning with more health than illness...you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.
-If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation ...you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.
-If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death...you are more blessed than three billion people in the world.
-If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep...you are richer than 75% of this world.
-If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace...you are among the top 8% of the World's wealthy. -Think about it!