It puts a smile on my face when I come across a worker who uses ingenuity to address a safety hazard.
I had a big grin yesterday as I was leaving a restaurant in Austin, TX. I was walking around the outside of the building toward the area where I’d parked my car. I saw one of the restaurant’s employees dragging a garbage can toward a dumpster. I looked away for just a minute and in that brief moment, he'd propped open the dumpster lid, like so:
Restaurant worker with gadget to keep dumpster lid open, Austin, TX (September 17, 2015)
It’s been quite a few years since I worked in a…