Working Safely
By: Steve Sayer
( Editor’s note; Many of you know Steve Sayer as a friend or neighbor here in Aliso Viejo. He was asked by meatingplace.com to write for them. Meatingplace.com is an on-line community for red meat and poultry processors
in North America. Membership is FREE. Meatingplace.com is published by the Marketing & Technology Group
Steve is a gifted writer. We all have enjoyed his pieces over the years for Aliso Laguna News and now meatingplace.com. It is interesting to learn more about this industry and how our food is regulated. Thank you Steve for broadening my world and I hope now all of yours!)
Altruism at its very best
With 2010 winding down and 2011 coiling up, I’d like to thank all of you readers for your shared interest of the working safely blog. I’ve enjoyed planning and writing each safety blog while reading, with incalculable interest, your unique views that unpredictably come ricocheting out of cyberspace for all to view.
I want to also thank the editors at Meatingplace for giving me the opportunity turned privilege of writing about worker safety in our industry. The editors already knew, well before my involvement, just how hazardous the meat and poultry industry can be.
A standard objective contained in each working safely blog has been the simple theme of … helping to create and promote a safer and healthier working environment for your people. If by chance just one minor cut has been avoided, owing solely to this virtual format, then the collective intentions and efforts by everyone has been time well spent.
Years ago, I came across an inspiring saying and stashed it away as if it was a precious golden nugget for further reflections and investments. It’s a silly habit of mine. The saying’s multiple messages speak of altruism at its very best. Good will towards your fellow man, mind you; matching perfectly with the holiday spirit that pervades each of us every December.
In an industry that relies on the diverse services and deeds of so many, I can’t imagine a better time then sharing it now.
Service is the virtue that distinguished the great of all times and which they will be remembered by. It places a mark of nobility upon its disciples.
It is the dividing line which separates the two great groups of the world – those who help and those who hinder, those who lift and those who lean, those who contribute and those who only consume. How much better it is to give than to receive.
Service in any form is comely and beautiful. To give encouragement, to impart sympathy, to show interest, to banish fear, to build self-confidence and awaken hope in the hearts of others – in short, to love them and to show it – is to render the most precious service.
I wish you and yours a joyful holiday and a prosperous and safe 2011.
Steve Sayer
