Hi Group
Safety Mike here. It's been a while. I just wanted to say hi and update you on my status. My medical responders just went through AED-BBP-First Aid and AED training. I walked through the entire city of Sheboygan Fire Department (52 People) to familiarize them with our facility. Now, coming in June, I am having the fire department do hands-on fire extinguisher training. What are all you up to? Also went to a great Safety Conference this year.
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Looks like a great time! Glad to see you Mike!
My man Mike!!!!
Way back, I am talking 1980, I was a new Personnel/Safety Man! I had to do Fire Extinguisher Training for some 700 employees (just Melt, Heat Treat, Maintenance, and Supervisory personnel) in our 3500 employee foundry. I arranged for the local city fire department to come and give live demos!
We made a 8'x12'x3' "pig" out of sand and refractory in a large steel pan. We filled that with about 6" what was supposed to be a good clean grade of fuel oil. Procurement employees had bought some fuel oil but only about 50% of what I ordered and what they ordered was the "cheap stuff"! The Melt Department made the "pig", but when they put the fuel oil in it they only had enough for 3" so they put in 3" of some old engine oil form the PIT shop, what else was needed was 80w motor oil used as a quench bath on the HT ovens, and a little gasoline. What a soup!
So the training day came and the fire department came and gave a live demo to about 15 groups of employees. I noticed the burning oil had a lot of smoke and particles. But there was a strong wind blowing out over our huge yard (mostly of sand) so I was not concerned. However, in the last several sessions the wind changed direction (I had left after the first couple sessions). The next day everyone raved and congratulated me on the best training we had ever given. I thought I was a hero! However, the next day the phone started to ring off the hook. All the neighbors were mad at all the soot on their cars! Management agreed to clean and detail them all. Then about 6 blocks away the local GM dealer called and said the soot has fallen on all their new and used car inventory! I thought I was going to get fired! The final bills were something like $25,000 in 1980 dollars! I did not get fired but got a stern lecture! After that I was very careful about my training!
Mike back when we worked together our plant manager wanted us to do a live FE training with MFD. So we did not do it! Be careful!
Nice work on getting your team trained! Live, hands-on extinguisher training is always a blast! Not sure what the FD uses up there, but we use a propane-fueled extinguisher prop, so it's pretty much able to be setup anywhere, has a deadman switch, and can produce flames up to 10 feet high if you want. All the employees turn into little pyro maniacs at that point, haha.