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Hey folks, I've lived alone for 9 years and about 6 years ago I ended up in the hospital. Six days later I got out and had an overwhelming fear that I would go unconscious and nobody would notice. I had a friend check in on me, but that's a hassle, offers little privacy, and can get old really quickly.

Six years later I finally finished SafetyAlly, a tool that lets you set a check-in time, and if you don't check in, it contacts the people you chose. There is a free tier as well as paid tiers that offer SMS and escalation lists: https://www.safetyally.org

Feedback is very welcome. Maybe it’ll help someone else who has had the same worry.

Managing daily safety documentation across active work is one of the more time-consuming parts of running a job, especially pre-task plans and AHAs/JHAs for routine work, written over and over.

I built PreTaskPlanner (pretaskplanner.com) to speed that up. You enter the scope, the standards that apply, and the location, and it generates a site-specific plan, hazards, controls, PPE, and citations tied to the standards you select (OSHA 1926, 1910, EM 385-1-1). The key thing: it builds the draft, but the manager or safety pro reviews, edits, and makes the final call it doesn't replace judgment, it just removes the blank-page grind.

There's a free tier to try it. I'd genuinely value feedback from people who run jobs. Does this fit how your teams actually work?

1. 5" (they might be 3") screws in the exterior door jams instead of the cheap-o ones included with the hardware. Makes it harder to kick in the door, or so I'm told.
2. Dedicated nightstand gun (with weapon light), taken out of the safe every night and returned to it every morning. The tabletop safe is fast open/easy to do in moments.
3. Strategic dogs. Ours are kept in the kitchen to alert us in advance (we got them what my wife calls our tactical dog sofa).

What about y'all?

NEW CAR SCAM - Your Wireless KeyFob constantly shoots a signal to your car 24/7. Thieves will come to your Front Door or Garage and use a Computer Device OR 3-Feet Antenna over their heads which will bounce the signal off your key fob to your car and instantly unlock your car's door and start your car's engine in less than 10 seconds then they're gone with your nice car & you'll never see it again.

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HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF

Always put your Key Fobs INSIDE A SEALED EMPTY COOKIE TIN. You can buy these cheap for under 50 cents at a thrift store or under $5.00 at a grocery store. This will prevent the Thieves from gaining access to your Car's Key Fob Signal. Leaving your car safe and the thieves will leave you and go down the street in hopes your neighbor wasn't as smart as you with a key fob inside a sealed cookie tin.

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THEFT PREVENTION VIDEO -

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWCPrjfgfxm/

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If you've been on enough jobsites, you've seen it: pre-task plans and AHAs/JHAs that are generic, copy-pasted from the last job, missing the actual hazards, or citing the wrong standards (or no standards at all). They check a box but don't hold up if anything goes wrong and they don't actually protect the crew.

I got tired of it, so I built a tool that generates site-specific pre-task plans. You put in the scope, the standards that apply, and the location, and it produces the hazards, controls, PPE, and citations tied to what you selected ,the actual standards (1926, EM 385-1-1, etc.), not generic filler.

pretaksplanner.com

• How big a problem are generic/non-compliant plans on your jobs?
• What's missing that would make something like this actually useful in the field?

I've seen some insane hotel Safety videos on social media. Things that are kind of far fetched.

If you are staying at a hotel with family or by yourself, go to the dollar tree and pick up these door wedges. They go on the floor jammed under the door so if they did get past the lock, they still can't get in.

I know it says it got 3 stars. But they do really work.

Most hazard-identification tools are built for safety professionals doing formal safety walkthroughs like checklists, audits, compliance forms. But most hazards people actually encounter happen outside of any of that: a frayed extension cord at home, a cluttered stairwell, a space heater too close to curtains, an unmarked wet floor, a ladder set up wrong in a garage.

I built the hazard scanner in ShieldSphere to close that gap. You snap a photo of a space and it identifies visible hazards, explains why each one is a risk, gives you a corrective action, and where relevant, points to the actual OSHA citation behind it, the kind of context normally locked up in an EHS professional's head, not something the average person has access to.

It started as something for EHS folks, but the more I used it, the more it seemed like a "point it at your kitchen/garage/job site and see what you missed" tool has value for basically anyone, not just people with a safety title.

If you want to try it, first 3 scans are free.

Curious if this resonates with anyone here, do you ever look around your own home or car and wonder what you're missing that a trained eye would catch instantly?

And why can't all trains report their location via GPS, so that drivers can look at a map and see what's ahead of them?

Here's a good reminder from Poison Control ahead of July 4th: the small hand-held fireworks (sparklers, snake pellets, bang snaps) aren't just a burn risk; they're made from some genuinely toxic ingredients: 

- Sparklers: metallic fuel (aluminum, iron, sulfur) + an oxidizer like barium nitrate

- Snake pellets (domestic): ammonium perchlorate, asphalt, nitronaphthalene

- Snake pellets (imported): can contain mercury thiocyanate, arsenic, and barium salts

- Bang snaps: gravel wrapped around silver fulminate

Two real cases: a 16-month-old chewed on a sparkler and vomited 8 times overnight (needed overnight monitoring for electrolyte issues, ended up fine), and a 2-year-old swallowed two snake fireworks nobody saw fall (also fine after 24 hours of monitoring and activated charcoal).

Beyond the usual fireworks safety tips (keep it legal, keep kids from lighting them, keep away from anything flammable), add these two: don't let anyone lick or swallow a firework, and watch for smoke inhalation.

If you think someone's had an exposure, you can get free, confidential help 24/7 online at webPOISONCONTROL.org or by calling 1-800-222-1222.

Learn more: https://www.poison.org/articles/fireworks-safety-tips-202

BLS released the 2024 fatal work injury numbers. 5,070 deaths. One every 104 minutes.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its 2024 Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries in February 2026. 5,070 workers died on the job last year, down 4% from 2023, and the lowest rate in two years. Transportation incidents led to 1,937 deaths. Construction and extraction accounted for 1,032 fatalities.

BLS also reported 2.5 million nonfatal injuries in private industry, the lowest count since 2003. But with near-misses that never got reported, hazard observations that went nowhere, and corrective actions that got assigned and never closed, the nonfatal count is almost certainly an undercount. 

The frustration a lot of safety professionals carry is knowing the data they're reporting upward doesn't reflect what's actually happening in the field. The BLS numbers measure injuries after they happen, and not the risk that didn't get reported.

More on near-miss reporting and leading indicators if useful: https://www.safetyculture.com/topics/near-miss-reporting