• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

SafetyRisk.net

Humanising Safety and Embracing Real Risk

  • Home
    • About
      • Privacy Policy
      • Contact
  • FREE
    • Slogans
      • Researchers Reveal the Top 10 Most Effective Safety Slogans Of All Time
      • When Slogans Don’t Work
      • CLASSIC, FAMOUS and INFAMOUS SAFETY QUOTES
      • 500 OF THE BEST WORKPLACE HEALTH and SAFETY SLOGANS 2023
      • CATCHY and FUNNY SAFETY SLOGANS FOR THE WORKPLACE
      • COVID-19 (Coronavirus, Omicron) Health and Safety Slogans and Quotes for the Workplace
      • Safety Acronyms
      • You know Where You Can Stick Your Safety Slogans
      • Sayings, Slogans, Aphorisms and the Discourse of Simple
      • Spanish Safety Slogans – Consignas de seguridad
      • Safety Slogans List
      • Road Safety Slogans 2023
      • How to write your own safety slogans
      • Why Are Safety Slogans Important
      • Safety Slogans Don’t Save Lives
      • 40 Free Safety Slogans For the Workplace
      • Safety Slogans for Work
    • FREE SAFETY eBOOKS
    • Free Hotel and Resort Risk Management Checklist
    • FREE DOWNLOADS
    • TOP 50
    • FREE RISK ASSESSMENT FORMS
    • Find a Safety Consultant
    • Free Safety Program Documents
    • Psychology Of Safety
    • Safety Ideas That Work
    • HEALTH and SAFETY MANUALS
    • FREE SAFE WORK METHOD STATEMENT RESOURCES
    • Whats New In Safety
    • FUN SAFETY STUFF
    • Health and Safety Training
    • SAFETY COURSES
    • Safety Training Needs Analysis and Matrix
    • Top 20 Safety Books
    • This Toaster Is Hot
    • Free Covid-19 Toolbox Talks
    • Download Page – Please Be Patient With Larger Files…….
    • SAFETY IMAGES, Photos, Unsafe Pictures and Funny Fails
    • How to Calculate TRIFR, LTIFR and Other Health and Safety Indicators
    • Download Safety Moments from Human Resources Secretariat
  • Social Psychology Of Risk
    • What is Psychological Health and Safety at Work?
    • Safety Psychology Terminology
    • Some Basics on Social Psychology & Risk
    • Understanding The Social Psychology of Risk – Prof Karl E. Weick
    • The Psychology of Leadership in Risk
    • Conducting a Psychology and Culture Safety Walk
    • The Psychology of Conversion – 20 Tips to get Started
    • Understanding The Social Psychology of Risk And Safety
    • Psychology and safety
    • The Psychology of Safety
    • Hot Toaster
    • TALKING RISK VIDEOS
    • WHAT IS SAFETY
    • THE HOT TOASTER
    • THE ZERO HARM DEBATE
    • SEMIOTICS
    • LEADERSHIP
  • Dr Long Posts
    • ALL POSTS
    • Learning Styles Matter
    • There is no Hierarchy of Controls
    • Scaffolding, Readiness and ZPD in Learning
    • What Can Safety Learn From Playschool?
    • Presentation Tips for Safety People
    • Dialogue Do’s and Don’ts
    • It’s Only a Symbol
    • Ten Cautions About Safety Checklists
    • Zero is Unethical
    • First Report on Zero Survey
    • There is No Objectivity, Deal With it!
  • THEMES
    • Risk Myths
    • Safety Myths
    • Safety Culture Silences
    • Safety Culture
    • Psychological Health and Safety
    • Zero Harm
    • Due Diligence
  • Free Learning
    • Introduction to SPoR – Free
    • FREE RISK and SAFETY EBOOKS
    • FREE ebook – Guidance for the beginning OHS professional
    • Free EBook – Effective Safety Management Systems
    • Free EBook – Lessons I Have Learnt
  • Psychological Safety
    • What is Psychological Health and Safety at Work?
    • Managing psychosocial hazards at work
    • Psychological Safety – has it become the next Maslow’s hammer?
    • What is Psychosocial Safety
    • Psychological Safety Slogans and Quotes
    • What is Psychological Safety?
    • Understanding Psychological Terminology
    • Psycho-Social and Socio-Psychological, What’s the Difference?
    • Build a Psychologically Safe Workplace by Taking Risks and Analysing Failures
    • It’s not weird – it’s a psychological safety initiative!
You are here: Home / Manual Handling / How To Safely Pick Up Chicks

How To Safely Pick Up Chicks

July 2, 2015 by Admin 11 Comments

How To Safely Pick Up Chicks – spot the hazards

By colourful veteran safety crusader, Barry Spud.

pick up chicksWhen I received the email  with this subject line I almost didn’t bother opening it. I have never had a problem with the ladies.  We all know that women want a man with a good sense of safety, one who can buy them expensive engineering controls, who wears appropriate PPE, knows his way around The Act, has a big clipboard and can commit to avoiding risk! The women I work with do not even bother to attend my safety training sessions anymore as they say it relaxes them way too much and besides they know I am always there to protect them and tell them how to be safe.

Ask Mrs Spud….every morning as I proceed carefully out the door I always tell her to choose safety as it is my No1 priority and of course I always tell her how much I zero hate her! She refrains from kissing me goodbye as I have instructed her on how unhealthy this can be if a risk assessment, or at least a Take 5, has not been carried out prior. Not sure why I am so hen-pecked but?

Anyway, when I cracked open the email I was horrified, outraged even. Firstly, how dare anybody try and beat up safety with humour. Safety is no yolk! Secondly, the process illustrated is completely wrong and totally unsafe – certainly no way to achieve zero harm, particularly since zero is a duck!. I would not expect a lay person to know these things but I know the Act, I know safety and I spent over an hour learning about safely working with animals as part of attaining my Cert IV in Safety Certificate and I keep a breast of things. Let’s talk turkey, here then is my expert response:

  1. This goose is disobeying the golden egg rule of manual hendling – bend the knees! Not only that, regardless of the weight of the object, it must be held close to the body. In this case I would recommend the presence of a second person to not only assist with the load but to keep the immediate area clear and warn others of the risk or in case the chicken attempts to cross the road.
  2. Chickens are known carriers of a range of bacteria and diseases in including salmonella, bird flu and chicken pox. A full range of PPE should be worn including respirator, hard hat, goggles, gloves and steel capped boots.
  3. Has anybody checked if this person has an egg allergy? Chickens are directly related to the egg family and appropriate allergy testing should be undertaken and epi pens made available. BTW – the egg came first! However, being a Rooster I really don’t care.
  4. Biosecurity is critical. A permit to handle chicks needs to be issued and signed off at the completion we do not wish to fall fowl of quarantine laws.
  5. imageThey need to hatch a lifting plan, particularly since this person has no hands
  6. Elimination and engineering controls must be considered for this task before we scramble off and go running around like headless chickens.
  7. Let us not forget the chicken itself and the importance of wearing hi-viz clothing

If anybody has any other suggestions then I would appreciate it if you submit them for my approval – I have two copies of Rob Long’s book “For the Love Of Zero” to give away to the best answers – you can understand my urgency in wanting to get rid of these sacrilegious texts as soon as possible!

More enlightening articles by Barry:

Zero Harm Means Zero Growth

beard-spud_thumb.jpg

News out today that an underground mine employee had his case for unfair dismissal denied by the Fair Work Commission. He refused to shave his goatee beard so that he could effectively wear a half face respirator to ensure he was protected from silica dust and the …… Read the rest of the article

Its All Good – The Trees Were Killed For OH&S Reasons

image.png

Radio Station B105 reported today that trees on a wealthy Brisbane Street have been dressed in shade cloth as part of a fight against vandals.  The trees were poisoned last April, allegedly by local residents, hoping to improve the value of their properties and their …… Read the rest of the article

I can’t believe that nobody was seriously injured

Shark-risk_thumb.jpg

Veteran Safety Crusader, Barry Spud, is very angry, in fact, he is outraged. Returning to work as Zero Harm Plus Controller at ACME, after taking 3 months long service leave with a 3 month extension for compassionate stress leave, he was looking forward to …… Read the rest of the article

 

A Special Christmas Message From Safety Spud

DSCN3605_thumb.jpg

BE CAREFUL! Christmas is an accident waiting to happen – it really should be banned!. Safety Spud Santa’s Xmas Accident Tips and Facts for a Zero Xmas:Mistletoe is poisonous as its berries contain toxic proteins that slow the heart rate and can cause hallucinations not to mention the diseases that …… Read the rest of the article

Please share our posts

  • Click to print (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)

Related

Filed Under: Manual Handling, Safety Satire Tagged With: animal safety, barry spud, chicks, Manual Handling

Reader Interactions

Do you have any thoughts? Please share them below Cancel reply

Primary Sidebar

Search and Discover More on this Site

Never miss a post - Subscribe via Email

Enter your email address and join other discerning risk and safety people who receive notifications of new posts by email

Join 7,495 other subscribers

Introduction to SPOR – FREE!!

SAFETY MYTHS SERIES

The Mythic Symbology of Safety

Posture Myths and Holistic Ergonomics

Safety Mythbusters

Don’t Be Emotional! Another Safety Myth

Tackling the Challenge of Heuristics in Safety

The Myth of Normal

NEW! Free Download

Please take our 2 minute zero survey

Recent Comments

  • Rob long on Welcome to the Nightmare, Safety Creates its Own Minefield (as usual)
  • Matt Thorne on Welcome to the Nightmare, Safety Creates its Own Minefield (as usual)
  • Anonymous on Welcome to the Nightmare, Safety Creates its Own Minefield (as usual)
  • Jason on How Bias Inhibits Learning in Safety
  • Rob Long on How Bias Inhibits Learning in Safety
  • Admin on How Bias Inhibits Learning in Safety
  • Rob Long on 400,000 Free Downloads
  • Gustavo Saralegui on 400,000 Free Downloads
  • Rob long on To Err is Human, You Better Believe It
  • Wynand on To Err is Human, You Better Believe It
  • Rob Long on To Err is Human, You Better Believe It
  • simon cassin on To Err is Human, You Better Believe It
  • Rob Long on Records of safety activities: evidence of safety or non-compliance?
  • Matt Thorne on Free Online Workshops
  • Rob long on No Good Reason to Follow Reason
  • Brian Edwin Darlington on No Good Reason to Follow Reason
  • Risk Diversity on Book Launch – For the Love of Zero – in Portuguese
  • Rob Long on No Good Reason to Follow Reason
  • Risk Culture Builder on No Good Reason to Follow Reason
  • Mark Taylor on All Things Must Pass in Risk

FREE eBOOK DOWNLOADS

Footer

VIRAL POST – The Risk Matrix Myth

Top Posts & Pages. Sad that most are so dumb but this is what safety luves

  • Road Safety Slogans 2023
  • 500 OF THE BEST WORKPLACE HEALTH and SAFETY SLOGANS 2023
  • Free Safety Moments and Toolbox Talk Examples, Tips and Resources
  • COVID-19 (Coronavirus, Omicron) Health and Safety Slogans and Quotes for the Workplace
  • What Is Safety?
  • How Bias Inhibits Learning in Safety
  • CATCHY and FUNNY SAFETY SLOGANS FOR THE WORKPLACE
  • 15 Safety Precautions When Working With Electricity
  • Safety Acronyms
  • Download Safety Moments from Human Resources Secretariat

Recent Posts

  • Welcome to the Nightmare, Safety Creates its Own Minefield (as usual)
  • What is SPoR?
  • How Bias Inhibits Learning in Safety
  • Afraid to Let Go of What Doesn’t Work in Safety
  • When You Don’t Know What to do in Safety, Have Another Blitz!!!
  • Gloves and Glasses Compliance
  • A Case of Desensitisation – What Would You Do?
  • How to Leave the Safety Industry
  • The Mythic Symbology of Safety
  • Dark Waters, The True Story of DuPont and Zero
  • 400,000 Free Downloads
  • Am I stupid? I didn’t think of that…
  • Don’t Look Now Safety, Your Metaphor is Showing
  • Ratio Delusions and Heinrich’s Hoax
  • To Err is Human, You Better Believe It
  • Culture as a Wicked Problem, for Safety
  • Safety Leadership Training
  • Cultural Orientation in Risk
  • The Stanford Experiment and The Social Psychology of Risk
  • Objectivity, Audits and Attribution When Calculating Risk
  • Records of safety activities: evidence of safety or non-compliance?
  • Zero, The Seeking of Infinity
  • Safety Leadership Essentials
  • What Can Indiana Jones Tell Us About Culture
  • Safety as a Worldview
  • The Loathing of Limits
  • Culture Cannot be Framed Through Safety
  • Free Online Workshops
  • Safety Culture–Hudson’s Model
  • Book Launch – For the Love of Zero – in Portuguese
  • Advancing Backwards in Safety
  • The ‘Noise’ of Safety, Silence and Practicing of Mindfulness
  • All Things Must Pass in Risk
  • I’m just not that into safety anymore
  • Sticks and Stones and the Nonsense of Zero Harm
  • Courting Infallibility in Safety
  • Indicators of Risk
  • What Can Safety Learn From Playschool?
  • No Good Reason to Follow Reason
  • Just as Well Culture Doesn’t Listen to Safety
  • What Are the Benefits Of Social Psychology of Risk?
  • Short-Sighted Lenses by Safety
  • Is Safety the Empire of Non-Sense?
  • No Wonder Safety is Confused About Culture
  • Building High Performance Safety Cultures
  • Understanding iCue, a Visual, Verbal, Semiotic Method for Tackling Risk
  • On Culture and Safety
  • Focus on ‘Meeting’ people, not legislation – a path to risk maturity
  • The Moral Harm of the Zero Cult
  • The New Leadership – Risk and Safety

VIRAL POST!!! HOW TO QUIT THE SAFETY INDUSTRY

FEATURED POSTS

Actions in ‘Bad Faith’

Implementing SPoR in the Workplace, A Video

People Skills Are Not Soft Skills

It Works! A New Approach to Risk and Safety

Anchoring Safety to Objects

SPoR and Disposing of Bad Myths

Safetie

Semiotics, Semiology and Safety Sense

A Small Change and ‘Y’ it Matters?

The Challenges for Organisations in Dealing with Mental Health

Safety as Ritual Performance

WHS Research Symposium 2019

The Safety Charade as Tokenism in Safety

Human Factors is Never About Humans

Push or Pull – It’s Not Your Fault – It’s a Norman Door!

Overcoming Safety Indoctrination

A Great Comparison of Risk and Safety Schools of Thought

What is the Mind of Safety?

Is Risk and Safety Perfectionism a Disorder?

Abby Normal Safety

Understanding How People Make Decisions and Judgments

The Domino Myth in Safety

Chronic Unease is Not Enough

The Real Barriers to Safety

The Fallible Factor and What to Do About It

Is Choice The First Casualty in the Worker’s Compensation War?

Gesture in Risk Matters

EGO is not a dirty word

A Masters Degree in ‘Tick and Flick’

Don’t Let Evidence Get in the Way of Safety

Why we make mistakes

Visualising Risk

Safety Career Highlight

New Social Psychology of Risk Website

Report on SPoR Convention 2018

Thinking About Harm

Perth and London SPoR Workshops

Safety Gives Me the Right over Other Rights

Reflections of a ‘Doer’

Pascal’s Wager and Sacred Safety

More Posts from this Category

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address and join other discerning risk and safety people who receive notifications of new posts by email

Join 7,495 other subscribers

How we pay for the high cost of running of this site – try it for free on your site

WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY?

What is Psychological Safety at Work?