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Re: Safety Award: What would you like to see?

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Originally Posted by Cory View Post
The best thing that could happen to the safety award is for it to go away.
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The whole award is a complete sham and does not promote actual safety whatsoever. It's just an opportunity for teams to annoy the living daylights out of everyone else.
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Originally Posted by Jon Jack View Post
The award has become a joke. It's turning competitions into something resembling a circus. From kids screaming (with no one even remotely near by) "ROBOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ROBOT!!!!!!!!!!!" to every team handing out some kind of flyer that tells me the same information. Seriously, is it really necessary that my team get 50 different flyers on how to be safe in our pit? Do we really need 5 million posters plastered on every wall and bathroom stall reminding you to be safe? After a while, they just become ambient decoration and lose their effect.

Anyways, do you really need an award for being safe? Isn't leaving a competition with all your limbs enough? I know we've never once competed for the 'Safety Award'. We choose to keep our pit clean and safe not because of an award, but because we want a clean pit area that is easy to work in and doesn't pose a safety hazard to our team.
This. The promotion of safety in the work environment should be just that, promotion, not a spectacle of obnoxious behavior.

Very frankly, I see it as silly of an award as spirit. (Silly being the reserved term here)
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