IS EXPERIENCE THE BEST TEACHER?
"Experience is the best teacher” is a saying that
we have often heard, but its truth depends on the
nature of the lesson. When a lesson can be learned
without serious harm, experience is indeed the
best, and sometimes the only teacher. But when
learning a lesson entails damage to property,
serious injury or death, then experience has
applied the rod, so to speak, with a severity that
defeats its purpose.
When safety is the lesson to be learned, ex
perience is the best teacher only when it is the
experience of somebody else. The experience of
losing his or her life is wasted on the driver,
pedestrian or worker who is killed in any type
of accident. The experience of months in a hos
pital bed or of weeks in a law court, is cosily
tuition for one’s education in traffic or industrial
safety. If we wish to avoid these dire costs, we
must apply the experience of others to ourselves.
ALWAYS GET "FIRST AID FIRST!”
To receive a personal injury is bad, but to re-^
port such injuries from one to seven days late is
much worse. Infections often result from minor
injuries not being treated immediately, and we
have had a number of lost time cases due to such
infections.
With a Nurse on duty at all times, there is no
justifiable reason why we should not get "First
Aid First.’*
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