Gardner marsh

I will be the first to admit, I used to pass right on by my stash of PPE anytime I was visiting a job or delivering propane. I was a person who always thought it was like winning the lottery, it’ll never happen to me. You’d think I would know better. I had a co-worker get liquid burned on his chest so badly he ended up with a staph infection. Another who was unhooking his delivery hose from an underground tank when the relief valve popped off, blowing liquid into his face and throwing him backwards onto his rear end, leaving him disoriented to the point it took a few minutes for him to realize what happened and remember where he was. We all think that it will never happen, until it does. Luckily, I have never been injured on the job aside from some liquid burns on my fingers, but I have seen and heard enough to know we should be doing everything we can to prevent these accidents from occurring in the first place. As a manager, I should have been setting a better example to the ones I was