Safety Visuals - Container Labeling
Having any issues with employees not understanding why container labeling is so important. I use this anywhere I deliver this training. Hope it helps!
Take a bottle of vitamin water the XXX flavor. (dark red in color) then another bottle and fill it with Hydraulic Fluid. Cannot tell the difference. Employees love the demonstration and is an eye opener.
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That’s actually genius!! So many hazardous chemicals that look like water. Which one has the hydraulic fluid in it?
HAHAH - this is incredible. wow
Acetone and water is another example.
In my former company, about 15 years ago a female employee was working on an assembly line. She grabbed a little white bottle thinking it was contact solution for her dry eyes. The labelling had fallen off which happens around oily environments. She took off her safety glasses and dropped a few drops into her left eye, she felt burning. A coworker tried to stop her, but with the noise of the machine shop the employee could not hear her. The coworker knew it was Gorilla Glue used at times on the line.
The employee was in the hospital for a week. They mostly saved her site. but did lose some.
I used to drink that water all the time! Until my "health guru" daughter chewed me out!
Love this! I sometimes use water and muriatic acid for construction customers that use it for concrete etching or other similar tasks.
I'll have to remember this one for my machine and mechanical shops.
I've used Vinegar and Water. After asking if they know what is in each bottle I then take an aluminum pie pan with a small amount of baking soda in it and pour a small amount from each bottle in it.
Wow, that is so cool. We did something similar with Mountain Dew and antifreeze. I remember a story of an airline mechanic who used a Mountain Blast Powerade bottle and drained some fluid from an airplane that was blue. He continued to work and it was really hot. He went to take a break in front of his toolbox and took the non-Mountain Blast, took off the cap, and tipped it back. The story was he almost died b/c of his inattention to proper labeling.