Posted on Jun 29, 2016
What are some entertaining safety briefings you have had?
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I have a safety briefing tomorrow during a flight meeting that we are looking to make "fun"... but professional. I could use some help with one liner type things said at safety briefings (i.e. "If you're gonna tap it, wrap it...") gimme what you got!
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The one safety briefing I will remember for life was at HQ Bn. Quantico. Long Thanksgiving weekend and the Col decided that everyone should see a Navy Medical Training film on how a body is embalmed and prepared for burial. Everybody drove safely that weekend.
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Don't be stupid and don't hangout with stupid people.
Focus your safety brief on the 18-24 crowd. That's the demographic most likely to die or injure themselves from doing stupid things.
Focus your safety brief on the 18-24 crowd. That's the demographic most likely to die or injure themselves from doing stupid things.
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I object to this quite strongly. Not because you're wrong, because you're not (we do a lot of stupid shit, don't we?). But ya didn't have to dime us out like that!
"Oh, look! A bus!"
*grabs brand new PVT (Private, Airman, Seaman Recruit etc.) and throws him under it*
"Oh, look! A bus!"
*grabs brand new PVT (Private, Airman, Seaman Recruit etc.) and throws him under it*
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I suppose it would have been more constructive to instead have said the following:
"Don't treat a safety briefing as a time filler or a requirement to be fulfilled. Engage your audience realizing that your demographic that needs the briefing the most is between the ages of 18-24. Know the people that you're briefing, you can get a good indicator of what seems necessary for briefing by talking to them. Make sure that it's relevant. Think back to when you had to sit through those briefings and what you thought was good and what wasn't. Group participation for me seemed to have been what worked best (don't just pull someone to assist, work it out with them in advance). Try out different things, when a junior troop approaches you and says "I enjoyed your briefing, it was funny..." ask them questions about what you briefed, lo and behold--they remember!!"
1) O-1&O-2 can also fall in that demographic. So they should be listening too.
2) If they'd been wearing their reflective belt that bus wouldn't have hit them. :)
3) It's been said that that demographic is characterized by being impulsive, aggressive, and completely convinced of its own invincibility---the exact reasons why Specialists and Lance Corporals are what win wars.
4) The bacon cheeseburgers I ate as an Airman are catching up to me so I must go and deal with the high blood pressure that impacts my demographic.
"Don't treat a safety briefing as a time filler or a requirement to be fulfilled. Engage your audience realizing that your demographic that needs the briefing the most is between the ages of 18-24. Know the people that you're briefing, you can get a good indicator of what seems necessary for briefing by talking to them. Make sure that it's relevant. Think back to when you had to sit through those briefings and what you thought was good and what wasn't. Group participation for me seemed to have been what worked best (don't just pull someone to assist, work it out with them in advance). Try out different things, when a junior troop approaches you and says "I enjoyed your briefing, it was funny..." ask them questions about what you briefed, lo and behold--they remember!!"
1) O-1&O-2 can also fall in that demographic. So they should be listening too.
2) If they'd been wearing their reflective belt that bus wouldn't have hit them. :)
3) It's been said that that demographic is characterized by being impulsive, aggressive, and completely convinced of its own invincibility---the exact reasons why Specialists and Lance Corporals are what win wars.
4) The bacon cheeseburgers I ate as an Airman are catching up to me so I must go and deal with the high blood pressure that impacts my demographic.
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Our liberty safety reminder was usually, “ Gentlemen, wrap it, wiz it, wash it!” If she looks like you sister call your buddy, if it looks like your mom, call me. If it looks like your grandmother, call an ambulance you have alcohol poisoning!!!”
On a non military safety brief, The-reason there arekill handles on push mowers ( Craftsman was the first. I worked for Sears years ago) two neighbors wanted to trim the hedge between their yards. Einstein and Sir Issac Newton put Einstein’s Craftsman 5 hp on two 2x4’s and lifted them over their heads evenly trimming the hedge. Then Sir Issac fell victim to weaker arms and gravity! Now you know why you have to hold that lever down to cut your lawn!!!
On a non military safety brief, The-reason there arekill handles on push mowers ( Craftsman was the first. I worked for Sears years ago) two neighbors wanted to trim the hedge between their yards. Einstein and Sir Issac Newton put Einstein’s Craftsman 5 hp on two 2x4’s and lifted them over their heads evenly trimming the hedge. Then Sir Issac fell victim to weaker arms and gravity! Now you know why you have to hold that lever down to cut your lawn!!!
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Mine was don't do anything that requires you to use your one phone call to call me.
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Myself and a Dental Tech had to give a safety brief every week to OS students at Damn Neck. Use to tell them that Virginia Beach has the highest level of VD on the east coast. Weekends the dispensary is open for Emergencies Only. You got a burning pecker you better wait till Monday morning sick call to get it taken care of. Never failed though, would always have some 18 year old student come to me after hours for drippy dick. I was not pleased. =).
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Also had one back at Fort Carson from my Battalion CSM.
"Remember ladies*
"If you're gonna go out and get trashed this weekend, and you end up shacking up with some girl who you call Sally, only because you're too drunk to remember her name;
"Safety first.
So all of you mother*ckers better be wearing your damn PT belt!"
"Remember ladies*
"If you're gonna go out and get trashed this weekend, and you end up shacking up with some girl who you call Sally, only because you're too drunk to remember her name;
"Safety first.
So all of you mother*ckers better be wearing your damn PT belt!"
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Not sure its really "entertaining", unless you count the sheer horror factor... And, it happened to my husband, not myself. He came home one day and told me about the standard weekend safety brief, and how the speaker was telling people about a recent suicide, where friends and co-workers had been kind of "screwing with" someone. He'd asked some vague question about what people thought was a good idea for suicide. And, thinking this was just a "for instance" conversation, people threw out crazy stuff like drape sheets over everything in the basement or garage, spread out a huge sheet, put a chair in the middle, then shoot yourself, so that it contained much of the mess in one place. And, how everyone was shocked when the guy, who seemed solid, grounded, secure, actually DID that. And, one woman raised her hand, and told everyone how that guy was her husband... And, ouch. The entire room was shocked into dead silence and horror.
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A Gunny informed us, when i was in Okinawa, not to bring up the silver containers if we were diving off the beach at Torii station. He proceeded to tell us that they were canisters of white phosphorus and if we did they might burst and clear the beach PDQ. As it did when he was a young lance. Apparently they had been down there since some time during the Vietnam war. This was back in '94-'95.
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I think the funniest thing I've ever witnessed (and I got a front row seat because I had to run the PPT) was when our then Co GySgt had to give a PME on STDs in mixed company. He was NOT comfortable at all, especially since the PPT included some pretty graphic images.
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