This is a great idea: A historical tour related to industrial hazards.

It’s 1,100 miles by bus, with five stops covering 150 years of environmental and occupational health and safety: a coal mine, a steel plant, an automotive factory complex, a chemical plant and Love Canal.

The tourists are twenty-five college students and nine faculty from six universities and a range of disciplines including nursing, occupational safety, industrial hygiene and ergonomics. They’ll explore work hazards and share a multitude of perspectives. What a rich experience and great way to reinforce advances made in industry.

Okay, so this trip has a different kind of appeal than a fried-chicken tour, but I think I’d like it more.

This group of tourists is certain to encounter PIG® Absorbents and other PIG® products along the way (though they may not notice them). For that matter, if their bus takes I-99 between the first two stops (Scranton and Pittsburgh), they’ll pass within a few miles of New Pig headquarters.

I’m going to email the organizer offering some New Pig swag to everyone on the tour just because I think this imaginative trip will go a long way toward helping them keep people in industry safe, healthy and productive. Those people are our customers, so we have the same goal.

Kudos to the Historical Perspectives Tour! Here’s a sow-lute from One Pork Avenue as you roll by!

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By Keith

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