Wheels in Motion November Newsletter

Hi Friend,

Welcome to the November Newsletter

This month Alan shares his Bionic Arm update...make sure you watch the YouTube clip...Amazing!!
I talk about remembering to take my pills and and how some days are just harder than others.
What's Your Reason...
All of our Safety Speakers tell us why they share their
safety message.

Take care and look out for each other.

James Wood & The CNBSafe Team
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P.S. We have moved offices, our new contact details are:
C&B Safe Pty Ltd
Mailing: PO Box 310 Yarra Glen Vic 3775
Office: 68 Bell Street Yarra Glen Vic 3775
Ph: 03 9730 2900

Some days it’s harder than others

Ok so if you read this newsletter regularly you will know that C&B Safe is a group of people that visit workplaces to share our stories. We have all been impacted by workplace injury or fatality. Most of the time we can visit a business or worksite & talk about how an injury has changed our lives and affected the people around us.

But some days it is hard to share this information!

Just the other day I was working in QLD at a mine site and I saw someone that looked like my Dad sitting in the group I was speaking with. As I was talking I kept looking at this person & I started to think about my Dad & how he coped after I got hurt. It was hard to keep going this day.

My Dad felt guilty after my accident because he thought I got my job because of him and this in turn led to me getting hurt! (Which was wrong! I got hurt because I stuffed up!)

I suppose the point I’m trying to make here is that I had my accident a long time ago but some days it still is hard to deal with.

Don’t hurt yourselves people.

James

Greg Smith

Life is full of clichés but I think two that have stuck with me are “You only get one shot at life” or “Your current life is not a rehearsal for the next one”. The decision for me to drive my car whilst under the severe effects of fatigue resulted in an accident that changed the path and direction of my life and those around me forever. The reason I do what I do in speaking to others about being safe is so that I can hopefully prevent someone else from being severely injured or worse, so that they can live these two clichés out to their fullest potential. I was only 19 at the time and have spent the past 39 years suffering the consequences of my decision and it’s not one that I want anyone else to have to experience.

Michelle Rath

When I lost my youngest son, I knew I had to talk about what happened to him. Sharing his story creates awareness. I never know if I have helped save lives but I am okay with that because it creates conversation which in turn means I am being heard even if it’s only for that brief time where I have spoken to workers. My life has changed dramatically and it’s not easy to keep going each day but I do it because my son matters and it’s important that the long term consequences are also understood! Don’t just live for the moment.

Alan Newey

17 years ago I was involved in a workplace accident, after seeing what my beautiful wife went through nursing me back to health, abandoning her career along with the affect on family, friends, work colleagues.
I felt I let a lot of people down that day as well as myself. I get up every day wanting to make a difference to at least one person and hope others learn from my experience so other people’s families, friends, work colleagues and themselves don’t suffer like to many other. A good day is making the difference to (1) person, a great day is when everyone goes home to the families the same way they arrived at work.

Anton Guinea

For me, there are about 200 people killed in Aussie workplaces each year, and countless others injured. These numbers aren’t coming down. When I hear about these things happening, I think about two things … 1 is the preventability factor. Just read through the reports, and most of the incidents appeared to be a case of all the holes lining up. 2 is the fact that someone has to make a phone call or a visit to a family that has had a loved one hurt or killed at work. There are people everywhere grieving for their family members. There would be so many Aussie families in pain each and every day, due to work place incidents. As an incident survivor, I feel obliged to make a difference. That is my reason!

Rohan Sykes

In some ways I find that every time I present I feel empowered knowing that the more people's attitudes towards safety I can bring up to where it should be, I could be saving a life, or a marriage, prevent ongoing counselling and grieving of those affected by these needless tragedies in the workplace, in the home, in all walks of life.
I aim to connect with everybody in the businesses I present to (not just those on the shop floor!), to create the right safety habits for long enough in them so they become ingrained in their psyche to hopefully bring a reduction in these incidents or fatalities because with the right attitude and safety mindset, all these I believe are 100% preventable.
We do what we do now because we care, and are only too aware of the pain and suffering our loved ones and ourselves go through from the CHOICES people make.

Don’t forget your Med’s

When you have any injury you sometimes use medication to help manage any issues associated with the injury. For example I take a pill daily that stops me from getting muscle spasms in my legs and I also take a pill that stops me from pissing myself.(excuse the description)

But what happens if you go somewhere & you forget to take your pills?

I recently went to QLD for 3 days & when I arrived I found that I had forgot to bring the pills that stop me from wetting myself! Now I was on a remote mine site 2 hours from the nearest town so ducking up to the pharmacy or the doctors was not an option.
Luckily I made it through the 3 days without an “Accident” which would have been embarrassing & also would have made me angry.

But there’s a lot of these side issues that make getting hurt change your life in lots of interesting and challenging ways!

Woody's Words

Have you all been watching Woody’s Words?

I am enjoying sharing my little messages with you on Video it’s a simple way to share safety messages in a really informal way. Have a look at them and see what you think.

If any of you have a suggestion or a question that you want me to turn into a Woody’s Words please feel free to send them to Woody@cnbsafe.com.au

PS. Keep a look out for some guest appearances by my
daughter Annie…. She is a little Safety Star.

Friend here is Week 19 & 20 if you missed it.

Week 22 will be out tomorrow...