Regarding Listening And Speaking

WHEN IS A RULE NOT A RULE
1. WHEN A RULE IS KNOWN TO ONE OR A FEW, BUT NOT TO ALL
A supervisor may be able to receive the rules, but unless they are also known by everyone in his group, they cannot guide safety performance.

2. WHEN A RULE IS ESTABLISHED, BUT NOT WRITTEN OR POSTED
An “unwritten rule” soon ceases to be a rule. People forget or misinterpret it. By writing safety rules and posting them, supervisors take the first step toward uniform understanding of the rules.

3. WHEN A RULE IS SEEN, BUT NOT READ
Proper posting means conspicuous posting. Rules are more likely to be read in a well-lighted, well-traveled departmental area. Care should be taken to see that postings are not defaced or obscured.

4. WHEN A RULE IS READ, BUT NOT UNDERSTOOD
Reading alone does not ensure full understanding of a rule. The formation of sound safety habits requires explanation and careful coaching. Experience show that even long-service employees need continuing reminders.

5. WHEN A RULE IS UNDERSTOOD, BUT NOT FOLLOWED
Many people are forgetful about safety rules. Some may wink at the rules. Others may ignore them. The challenge for supervisors is to find new and interesting ways to remind employees of the importance of following the established rules.

6. WHEN A RULE IS OFFICIAL, BUT NOT ENFORCED
A rule loses its force if violation go unnoticed. Fair but firm enforcement is essential if rules are to have meaning at all. Proper enforcements and discipline require that supervisors take the lead by adhering to the rules themselves.

7. WHEN A RULE IS ENFORCED, BUT OUTDATED
Changing conditions can quickly create the need for new or revised rules. This suggest that rules be periodically reviewed and reexplained.

A safety rule is a rule when it is up-to-date, clearly understood, consistently followed, and enforced. It then becomes a safety, habit-formed and a key part of the supervisor’s accident prevention program.

“Law as Applied in the Philippines?”
“Afterwards, he was to say that through his study of law, he was shocked to learn that the rights of many people were violated, due to their poverty and ignorance.”

On Dealing with Government Agencies
Let it be your bureaucratic policy not to just agree on anything without factual basis and without consulting a number of authorities. Most people involved doesn't really know the little details.

On Yet another Trouble
Trouble can be unpleasant and painful and damaging, but it can also be the flint that strikes sparks out of the steel in your soul. The famous actor Walter Hampden once was asked which sentence in the English language he considered the most memorable. He thought for a moment. Then he replied that in his opinion the greatest sentence was in an old Negro spiritual: ''Nobody knows the trouble I've seen; glory, hallelujah!

On Truth and Lies
But the trouble is, who cares about the truth, beyond its titillation value? What would we do with it, even if we knew it? The truth could be the bigger problem than the lie, and it often is.

On Messages and Sermons
It was a positive kind of message that insisted that life can be a victorious, even happy experience, that God has the answer to all of our problems, even the problem of ourselves.

Rizal’s Opening Statement in the Book “ The Social Cancer”
DEDICATION
To My Fatherland:
Recorded in the history of human sufferings is a cancer of so malignant a character that the least touch irritates it and awakens in it the sharpest pains. Thus, how many times, when in the midst of modern civilizations I have wished to call thee before me, now to accompany me in memories, now to compare thee with other countries, hath thy dear image presented itself showing a social cancer like to that other!
Desiring thy welfare, which is our own, and seeking the best treatment I will do with thee what the ancients did with their sick, exposing them on the steps of the temple so that everyone who came to invoke the Divinity might offer them a remedy.
And to this end, I will strive to reproduce thy condition faithfully, without discriminations; I will raise a part of the veil that covers the evil, sacrificing to truth everything, even vanity itself, since, as thy son, I am conscious that I also suffer from thy defects and weaknesses.
Europe, 1886 The Author




Your Faithful Companion
Knowledge and understanding are life's faithful companions who will never prove untrue to you. For knowledge is your crown, and understanding your staff; and when they are with you, you can possess no greater treasures.

Your True Brother
He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred may neither understand you nor your true worth.

Words that Brings Success
Criticism discourages, appreciation encourages! I may discourage people sometimes, but I desire to give encouragement most of the time. If I can avoid it I will not say something that brings hopelessness in an already difficult situation. I want my words to bring success.

Mindset
They were all reared to be a Jew, taught to be one, proselyte --- result--- they are now a Jew in mind and heart. Today, they are being asked to shed this thinking. Now, tell them what happened --- why it happened --- speculate for positive reasons. Everything works for good.

On Love the Real Thing
Once, when I stopped off on a speaking trip to see her, she asked me how she would know she was in love. ''Well,'' I said, ''as you know, I'm no 'Dear Abby,' but I would say that when the relationship is compatible and exciting, and you just can't wait for the other person to appear, like I can't wait to hear your mother's footsteps returning when she has been out, then it's pretty surely the real thing. But it's always wise to pray about such relationship to be sure it's right; for if it isn't right, it's wrong and nothing wrong ever turns out right.