health and safety day at ups

ups had their health and safety awareness fair yesterday, and as david is on the committee, we thought we should make an appearance.  here was one of the signs hanging up in the plant.  it made me laugh because i've met (and...(cough, cough)...treated) a few boxes that look like very unwelcome guests of honor.

this guy might be able to handle this box on his own if he were lifting with his knees instead of his back.  you know, get stuff in the power zone...
here's where david clocks in every day.  the board to the right of him is filled with pictures of drivers and trucks who weren't safe while on the job.  there were some pretty bad wrecks posted on the board!  there were also stats from the day and week before to motivate all the drivers to reach their best potential of saving the world one box at a time.

here's where david takes his "coffee" break.  i think david is really pushing the hot cocoa button.
here's the flame truck.  this is what they drive around during parades.  wouldn't you feel pretty special delivering boxes in this thing?!  i know i would.  i suggested the committee should use this truck as incentive to get guys to drive safer.  you know, let the safest driver from one month drive it around for deliveries on the first day on the next month, and so on.  david looked at me and started laughing.  he said that would be a punishment; the truck has over 700,000 miles on it, it's unreliable, it's small and wouldn't fit the box load for delivery no matter how light the load that day.  so then i suggested they make it the punishment truck for the least safe driver.  we'll see what happens after the next safety meeting!