Eric & Bob
Post 3, Dec 10 2010

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Allow us to introduce Ernest, a longstanding and dedicated worker at ACME Heating & Plumbing:

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Employee of the week: Ernest Rogers

By name and by nature, Ernest is sincere, wholehearted and frank - three very dangerous characteristics for a worker at ACME!

Though intimidated by Eric at times, Ernest tries his best to tell it like it is, pointing out health and safety hazards and concerns; perpetually fighting for justice and peace of mind, in the offices, the canteen, and of course the metaphorical war zone that is the factory floor.

Eric & Bob
Post 2, Oct 14 2010

Health and safety signs and posters are a practical way of meeting your legal requirements, and assisting in the process of improving workplace safety. Signage is not only important for informing people about risks and possible dangers, but in many cases it is a statutory requirement.

Not to mention, signs make everything clearer and more professional-looking, right? Here's how NOT to use health and safety signs - courtesy of, who else, Eric Erickson.

 

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Eric: You know what this place needs, Bob?
Bob: Well...
(Bob reminisces the past week at ACME Heating & Plumbing...)
 
(Pandemonium on the factory floor!)
Eric: REG!! HIT THE STOP BUTTON!
 
Sally: Now, do you have an environmental policy?
Bob: Of course! Who wouldn't have these days, eh?
Reg: Yeah, when it gets that high we burn it...
 
Eric: WHO'S THAT!?
(Stan lays sprawled on the floor under a ladder.)
Bob: That's Stan, I'm just, erm, collecting him for his training.
Eric: That'll affect his bonus...
 
(After a great deal of puzzling, Bob doesn't have a clue what one thing 'this place needs', except possibly a closure order.)
Bob: ...no idea, enlighten me.
Eric: A touch of professionalism. REG!!
(Eric produces a huge pile of signs as Reg appears.)
Eric: Put up some signs!
Reg: Okay...
 
Signage is very important around the workplace, contributing to the continual improvement of safety and communicating good health and safety around the workplace. But it should not be a substitute for ensuring the welfare of your employees via worker involvement and an effective health and safety policy.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Employer of the week: Eric Erickson

 

The chain-smoking big bad boss at ACME Heating & Plumbing, much like his factory he is unstable, produces very little except in the way of noise and chemical pollution, and seems ready to blow at any given moment. It is rumoured however that Eric was once 'a very nice person', and the workers at ACME often gossip about what it might have been that tipped him over the edge.

Eric & Bob
Post 1, Sep 30 2010

Meet the team at ACME Heating & Plumbing - a flyer campaign from a couple of years back that has little-by-little transformed into a living, breathing entity of its own!

The mistakes and blunders that go on at the ACME factory are of the kind that other companies can fully appreciate and have a good laugh at, as every business has been there to some degree. Enjoy!

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Employee of the week: Bob Pearlman

A salesman who sees himself as suave and sophisticated, witty and whimsical; Bob is self-centred, spiritless, wishy-washy and wearisome. It can be said however that he is persistent, having worked all the way up to a managerial position at ACME Heating & Plumbing in ten years, and just as many failed relationships. Bob's personal motto, 'Just smile and say yes' works wonders with Eric, but not so much with friends and femmes, getting any free thought out of him is like trying to get blood out of a stone!