| As I attend more and more Risk Management, OH&S | | | | Damaged fence posts from soccer balls kicked too |
| and Manual Handling training for work, I've noticed | | | | hard; wire poking free from the corner where once |
| that as boring as these courses often are, I am | | | | passionfruit vines had trailed; tree roots and rocks |
| bringing my newly-aware eyes home and looking with | | | | protruding from an unkempt lawn, hidden bone-size |
| dissatisfaction around my house. I went through all | | | | holes in same. A long time ago, in the time period |
| the usual kid-safe safaris way back when my children | | | | generally known as "before kids walking ", our |
| were crawling and toddling from one room to | | | | backyard looked quite good with everything in its |
| another. Not a furniture corner remained unpadded or | | | | proper place. Then the kids, followed by an active, |
| a glass object d'art put out of harms way. Yet, | | | | partly insane dog, took over and there went |
| freshly trained for the office, I see that I have let | | | | paradise. I dragged my husband into the wilds with |
| things slide since the darling trio reached the | | | | lectures on risk control, damaged arms and legs not |
| independence years of the charming | | | | belong to this family, and hazardous waste pooling |
| pre-pubescent.Risk Management trains the eye to | | | | behind the garage. He assured me the waste was in |
| assess the inherent risk of building and event sites. | | | | no way toxic and we made ourselves busy fixing and |
| Unconfined refuse, unsafe scaffolding, construction | | | | barricading the rest of the yard. It took a whole |
| left-overs, etc. Every aspect is inspected for safety | | | | weekend.Manual handling. Ah, now there's a torturous |
| and potential to injure. The trained eye also casts a | | | | lesson in how to keep the eyes open, let alone alert! |
| knowing gaze over backyard party preparations. | | | | |