Morecraft of Phoenix Safety Management Inc. speaks at 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 19 and 9 a.m. on Thursday, Oct 21. The talks are in the Administration Building Auditorium and open to all Laboratory personnel and the public.
The Laboratory's Integrated Safety Management Program and the University of California's Northern New Mexico Office are sponsoring the talks.
Morecraft's first presentation Tuesday is called "Remember Charlie," which recounts his 1980 accident at an Exxon refinery, which caused serious burns over 45 percent of his body.
The 1:30 p.m. presentation on Tuesday is called "It Takes a Village to Raise an Alcoholic" and focuses on how alcohol abuse detrimentally effects safety and productivity in the workplace and can lead to a dangerous and hazardous work environment, said Fran Talley of Los Alamos' Public Affairs Office.
Morecraft also is scheduled to give the same talks Oct. 20 at Española Valley and Pojoaque high schools, and on Oct. 18 at the Nevada Test Site.
The presentations in Nevada are co-sponsored by the Laboratory and Bechtel Corp.
"We're proud of the safety improvements that have been made since we began a collective effort more than three years ago to refocus on and make safety a priority at this Laboratory," said Phil Thullen, Los Alamos' Integrated Safety Management Program director.
"But there's always room for improvement, and Charlie's message about the need to be aware of safety in everything you do, at work and at home, bears repeating. That's why the Laboratory has asked him to return."
For more information about Morecraft's presentations and the Laboratory's Integrated Safety Management Plan, write to ism@lanl.gov by electronic mail. Or visit World Wide Web site http://www.lanl.gov/internal/projects/ISM/ or http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/ism/rooters on the World Wide Web.
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