Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Fashion Show by Safety Speaker John Drebinger

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I was a safety speaker at PG&E’s Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Station and after going through security, we were in their large meeting room. I was the scheduled safety speaker for that year’s safety kickoff meeting. They always put on a great show with several different presentations during the day. As we walked into the meeting room, I saw scaffolding set up as a stage and a “runway” similar to what you would expect to see at a fashion show.

They opened the meeting with one of the most creative things I had ever seen. An announcer welcomed everyone to the first annual Personal Protective Equipment fashion show. Worker after worker came out on the catwalk and was introduced as they “modeled” a particular type of PPE. It was fabulous how each of them took on the stopping and posing fashion models do. The audience was cheering them on and having a great time.

They even had a humorous entry as one guy came out in surf shorts, flip flops and a t-shirt. His eye protection was sunglasses and he held a pole you would use in one of the hazardous areas of the plant. Obviously, he was the example of what not to do.

I can assure you when those employees got home they were telling family and friends al about it. Not only were they learning the message they were spreading it to others.