WHERE IC PROFESSIONALS COME TO TALK
TELLING THE STORY OF A LIFE-CHANGING ACCIDENT
In the third in our series on safety communication, Jason Anker tells the story of the workplace accident that changed his life forever and offers his advice on how employers should be talking to their teams about safe behaviour.
By Jason Anker, founder, Proud2BSafe
I'm a speaker who goes into companies to talk about health and safety, and I run a business with a number of other speakers who do this, all of whom have had accidents at work.
The short version of my story is: I went to work one day, a rush job came in, I fell off a ladder and was paralysed from the waist down.
The longer version talks about...
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