"ENG Truck safety is a habit, not an event!" c1999
sa/ca
"The hard part about
safety is when you win, you get what you started with...you never
really know,
and when you lose, you're left with
less...and you never really forget." c2006
ENGsafety.com
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Folks.....can we talk?
If you hang your station's van and your
fellow employees out in the breeze, you're going to get stung.
It
hasn't happened YET....but one day somebody is going to get hurt by
a crowd around a news van at a sport "celebration" full of vidiots, and
questions in court to the station will be something like: Why were you
there? What did
you expect to happen? Are you aware of all the past happenings where
the presence of a camera and news coverage has created problems?
This sort of coverage has to be reinvented using new
technologies. It doesn't take a van to relay a picture back to a
station anymore. In fact, this picture was taken from a helicopter's
camera....
If you go to the picture gallery (link below) you'll
see a KCBS truck that got "nailed" by celebrants who also assaulted the
crew covering the Lakers many years ago.
Do you think this is an exaggeration? Talk to Lin TV
Corp, and ask what a cameraperson's presence at the Providence
Nightclub fire did to them. (And their cameraperson recorded
video of
the incident that will save many lives.)
Perhaps it's not logical, but it's
reality.
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[click here] for links to information on the
ENGsafety.com page, or just scroll down.
New
papers available through the "Papers" section
below.
Check
out the EXTREME ideas for ENG with advertising partner RF Central
New ENG
Safety DVD on hold ..... PG&E has produced a new one...we're
awating details of how to get it.
ENGsafety.com
is planning a multi-part safety
DVD to cover all aspects of news truck safety, news industry accident
prevention, and many aspects of news gathering safety. Interested?
Please let us know. Right now the DVD is planned as a learning
tool for technicians, photographers, reporters, producers, and
assignment managers. It will be created with information and testing.
Comments,
suggestions? [email]
us.
Special Notes,
- What's new?
5-21-2007
Dan Nelson, friend of the ENG safety
effort for many years following his accident, has died.
From the time Dan was in the burn unit
after his ENG mast accident while working for WINK, I've been in touch
with him. For years he made his life work in many ways, having a
typical assortment of ups and downs. He recently was at another turning
point, and took a break for a trip for some scuba diving. He apparently
suffered a fatal heart attack on that trip.
Dan was active in keeping me aware of
his life after his accident, and many parts of his experience have been
shown to so many who have seen my safety presentation. Dan always
wanted to be sure his experience was shared to keep others from the
hazard that crippled his leg, but never his spirit. His paper on the
ENGsafety.com site remains as one of the most gut wrenching personal
experiences documented after an ENG van tragedy.
[go
to it]
He leaves his ex-wife, Kendra, who he
continued to share a warm and friendly relationship with, as well as
his 3-year old son Matthew, who he will get to know better through the
many pictures of Dan, and the many pictures Dan took for him with the
proud inspiration he had as a father.
PLEASE [email
your story to us] as soon
as possible.
The ENG safety
mantra with which to survive TV
remotes:
BEFORE YOU SET
UP,
WALK
AROUND
WALK AWAY
LOOK
UP!
Wanted: Pictures of the following Fathers
of ENG Safety: Bob
Richardson,
Rod Hughes, and Jim Olmstede. [email
us]
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