Growing up safety has always felt juvenile and it usually was quite boring learning about safety. Having a father as a "safety guy" can probably stress the idea of how safety was always popping up. I remember mowing the yard or weed whacking and being told to wear ear protection and safety goggles, as well as wearing proper shoes.
Alot of aspects of safety may seem simple and as if it is well-known throughout the general public, but then we hear on the news, for example, how someone got gashed all up because the person was riding a skateboard while holding on to a rope tied off on the bumper of a fast moving vehicle. Who does that? It is somewhat funny, but not for the person who got hurt. Like Forrest Gump once said "stupid is what stupid does". Of course there will always be the dare-devils that are up for anything and it is their freedom to act stupid, but when it comes to the workplace, safety should be a high priority.
I never imagined that I would be in the same field as my father, I actually refused it for the first couple years of college, until I realized that it was a much needed field that not hardly anyone even considered or thought of when picking out their major. I enjoy helping others, teaching, ensuring that the people I care for will live another day =).
Recently I took a personality profile and it stated that I was highly accommodating. Which accommodating has to do with "having a tendency to be friendly, cooperative, agreeable, and a team person" (Profile XT). The profile also states that I am interested in creativity, people service, and enterprising. I find it interesting how the profile is quite accurate. I am confident that I will help make safety a higher priority and inform others, without always being "boring", so that they will make smarter choices in the workplace as well as at home. I am looking forward to the future and enjoying the present.
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