Safety Secrets: Riddles and Interesting Facts

Several interesting riddles related to safety:

1. The first national legislative act to improve working conditions dates back to 1802, when the British Parliament passed the Health and Morals of Apprentices Act. Here, "morals" referred to safety, health, and welfare, but who was meant by the word "apprentices"?

1. What does the Japanese term Karoshi mean? Many companies combat this dangerous problem in different ways. For example, Toyota introduced a mailing system in some offices that reminds employees every hour after 7:00 PM that it is time to go home. Nissan Motor offers its office staff the option of remote work so they can care for children and elderly parents. Many companies introduce special days when all employees are required to leave the office at 5:30 PM.

1. The average office worker travels about 19,000 km a year in their own car, about 12,000 km by bus, and about 6,000 km by train. Yet using this so-called "means of transport," they cover only about 13 km. Moreover, for employees whose work involves nervous stress, this figure is much higher—about 32 km. What "means of transport" is this about?

1. Surgeons of antiquity had extensive experience in treating injuries. In Ancient Rus, there was always an abundance of patients, along with certain local specifics. For example, among commoners in the northern principalities, cases of "a person crashing down from a tree" and bites were particularly frequent. This was a kind of "occupational injury." Name in one word the occupation of the victims.

1. Stock exchange traders strive in every possible way to look down on their competitors, which frequently leads to injuries. To reduce workplace injuries in 2000, the Chicago Stock Exchange adopted a regulation limiting the height... Of what?

1. The most curious injury at the Vancouver Olympics happened to luger David Moeller from Germany. Having already stepped onto the podium and while posing for photographers, he broke… What?

1. This PPE is first mentioned in Homer's Odyssey in 850 BC. The poem tells how, on his way to Ithaca, Odysseus had to sail past an island inhabited by unusual creatures. To avoid disaster, the main hero equipped all his rowers with this PPE, and asked to be tied to the mast himself.

1. History has preserved many folk beliefs related to fires caused by thunderstorms. First and foremost, this applies to methods of extinguishing the fire. Water, according to peasants in Ancient Rus, on the contrary, only intensified the fire. What was proposed to extinguish the fire?

1. The equivalent of this product is a concept used by nuclear energy proponents to characterize the activity of a radioactive source. The radioactivity of this product has repeatedly caused false alarms in ionizing radiation detectors used to prevent the illegal smuggling of radioactive materials.

1. Make a cosmic effort to write the year when the Russian term "individual protective equipment" was renamed to "personal protective equipment" (changing its Russian abbreviation from ISZ to SIZ).

Answers:

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   Working children
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   Karoshi (Japanese for "death from overwork") — occupational sudden death
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   Wheeled office chair
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   Wild-hive beekeeping ("honey gathering") "apiculture"
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   The height of traders' heels
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   A tooth. He bit into his Olympic medal to test it.
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   Earplugs. He plugged their ears with wax
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   With milk; using kvass or beer for these purposes was also permitted
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   Banana equivalent dose
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    1957 (because the Russian abbreviation ISZ came to stand for Artificial Earth Satellite)