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Originally Posted by GaryVoshol
Bring the safety tokens back. But whenever a team is seen doing something solely for the purpose of getting the safety award - something that doesn't actually contribute to anyone's safety - a token is taken away from the team rather than given to them..
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Am I correct in observing that judges were not giving out safety tokens this year? Maybe last year as well, but I didn't notice until this year. I miss coming to the pit on Saturday morning and finding a stack of them sitting on our table, worthless or not. Even though teams should have been doing it already, it was an incentive to keep their pits clean.
I was slightly annoyed when I was asked by one of the safety judges, "Do you do anything special or pass anything out at the event to promote safety to other teams?". Personally, I've always found those actions really annoying. I don't really appreciate getting flyers from every team saying "don't forget to wear your safety glasses! don't forget to be safe in the pit! remember, safety FIRST!" I honestly just throw them away at the first opportunity I get. I'm not going to post them on my pit, and they just clutter up our work surface. The same usually goes for small items passed out (I kept two things at West MI - a package of hand wipes, and the grease from 1918). We don't post signs on the walls, because then people slow down and read a sign that tells them information that they probably already know. That's pretty bad for crowd control, especially in narrow hallways (such as at MSC).
The safety award should be presented to the team with the best overall safety
program that has solid results year-round, not to the team who tries to shove it down my throat over the span of three days.