More safety talks cannot replace common sense
The Smoking Gun prepared a FOIA request for complaints and injury reports by workers and guests at the Los Angeles Zoo. My favorite is a worker’s injury report:
I was scratching the male maned wolfs [sic] shoulders through the chain link fence when he turned suddenly [and] bit my left hand”
The supervisor, quite reasonably to this reader, responded as follows:
Keeper should never have put fingers into animal area — she is experienced enough to know this. More safety talks cannot replace common sense.
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