When it comes to safety, it's all a matter of perception. For most safety is an action taken at work, and ends at home.

All good things come to an end - and only the crappy things continue ... listen to how the end of Dragging Up is leading to the seeding of something greater ..

It's been a hell of a year.

O.S.H.A. and the C.D.C. can not give good intel on whether those in the workplace can demask. JR Kitchens is on the way to Wake Island. Betty Stout has just completed pipeline boot camp. And that damn Samuel Goodman wrote another soon-to-be bestseller on why safety sucks. Well, Ian Allison had his finger in this pie as well. But let us not forget that there is another great program for safety and Human Resources to consider. Yousef Badou has opened his certified trainer's course in Safety Awareness for Employees (S.A.F.E)

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Allen and Betty discuss the difficulties in providing safety for the Oil and Gas industry during the pandemic.

They also discuss the intricacy of socks -vs- boots, and why you never castrate cows.

This episode is about how those in safety “interpret,” others in safety or the trades.

One of the biggest issues that we face in this profession is that those in safety or supporting safety efforts view, and define regulations, questions, or actions differently. It is because of this difference in interpreting what is heard or seen, that many professional beat one another down as to what is happening or needed.

Listen to what a professional child educator discovered and shared about what holds us back in a universal effort to keep employees safe.

In this final episode for 2020, JR, Betty and Allen take a look back over shows and events that impacted their lives.

Betty provides a personal reflection on her “dragging up, “from a construction role, into her new position, and how it was affected by the COVID19 pandemic.

We also learn how you go from being a heifer to a cow!

We also take time to reflect on our first guests of the year – and aspirations for 2021!

The original poem by Dr. Clement C. Moore - read by Allen Woffard

Betty and Allen discuss some of the topics that many women going into the trades must face on a daily basis. Some of these include simple but critical housing issues, workplace interactions, off shift socializing, and preparing the family.

Get an inside look at what it takes to get out on the road where the money is, and what it feels like to "drag up," from a woman's perspective.

J.R Kitchens and Allen discuss the impact of COVID 19 in the workplace, but the emotional and sometimes traumatizing impact it has on the infected, and the survivors.

We also discuss Philippine prostitutes, misfit podcast, and relatable sponsors.