Funny Safety Signs

Here is Will and Guy’s contribution to promoting health and safety in the
workplace.  Observe these dangers, and learn to avoid them!

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Safety Technologies Tested to the Limit

Ten Fabulous, Amusing, Car Safety Facts

1. In 1771 the first accident involving a motor vehicle
   took place in Paris when Cugnot, the French inventor’s steam tractor hit
   a low wall in the grounds of the Paris arsenal.
2. Police women were used for traffic control duties for the first time
   in Paris in 1964. Delhi, India, introduced women traffic police in 1989.
   
3. The world’s first car number plates were issued by the French police
   in 1893.
4. In 1895 John Henry Knight was convicted and fined for using a
   motor-tricycle on the highway. He was probably the first motorist to
   appear in court.
5. In 1902 Tar was first used on a Macadam surface to prevent dust in
   Monte Carlo. It was the idea of Dr. Guglielminetti, a Swiss gentleman.
   At first the tar was brushed in cold, but soon it was applied hot.
6. The Motor Car Act of Britain came into force on 1st January 1904. It
   required that all cars be registered and carry a number plate, and all
   motorists to have a driving licence. But there was no driving test to
   pass and the licence was obtained by filling up a form and paying the
   fee at a post office. The act made dangerous driving an indictable
   offence.
7. The World’s first traffic lights were installed in Detroit, USA in
   1919. The first traffic lights in Britain were installed in
   Wolverhampton during 1928. However, they were not installed in London
   until 1932.
8. The pedestrian crossing was instituted in Britain in 1934. The roads
   were marked by dotted lines. On the pavement there were striped Belisha
   beacon light poles named after Britain’s Minister of Transport L. Hore-Belisha. The Zebra crossing with black and white stripes was
   developed after the Second World War.
9. Box junctions, marked with yellow cross-hatching, were introduced in
   London during 1964. The aim was to prevent traffic blocking junctions
   when it could not proceed and this was successful.
10. The first recorded motor-car accident in Britain, resulting in the
    death of the driver, occurred in Grove Hill, Harrow-on-the Hill, London,
    England on 25th February 1899.

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Top Ten Amusing Electrical
‘Shorts’

1. What is the definition of a shock absorber?
   A careless
   electrician.
2. Do you know how an electrician tells if he’s working
   with AC or DC power?  If it’s AC, his teeth chatter when he grabs the
   conductors.  If it’s DC, they just clamp together.
3. What did the light bulb say to the generator?
   I really
   get a charge out of you.
4. What Thomas Edison’s mother might have said to her son:
   Of course I’m proud that you invented the electric light bulb.
   Now turn
   it off and get to bed.
5. Sign on the side of the electrician’s van:  Let Us Get
   Rid of Your Shorts.
6. Two atoms were walking down the street one day, when
   one of them exclaimed, ‘Oh no – I’ve lost an electron!’
   ‘Are you
   sure?’ the other one asked.
   ‘Yes,’ replied the first one, ‘I’m
   positive.’
7. Why are electricians always up to date?
   Because they
   are “current” specialists.
8. How do you pick out a dead battery from a pile of good
   ones?
   It’s got no spark.
9. What would you call a power failure?  A current event.
10. Did you hear about the silly gardener?
    He
    planted a light bulb and thought he would get a power plant.

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