Last month was Emergency Preparedness Month, and our October safety meetings combined classroom learning with hands-on practice. Each meeting started with a short presentation covering the classes of portable fire extinguishers, how to approach an incipient fire, when to fight a fire versus evacuate, and the PASS method. Then more than 150 employees put that knowledge to work by discharging a fire extinguisher at a live fire. Pulling the pin and feeling the extinguisher work builds confidence in a way no slide deck can.
