When life hands New Piggers lemons, New Piggers make lemonade.

When life hands New Piggers outrageous amounts of snow, New Piggers do what you see in the video below.

(Watch this twice! Once for the sculpture, once for the clouds.)

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New Pig world headquarters has been in the path of Snowmageddon this week.

You, too? Here’s a quick look at products we carry that are related to snow. Not many items (and one of them is on clearance, hint hint), but talk about drifty … er, nifty.  Click on the captions to see ‘em!

Strap-on cleats for snow and ice!

Hide your snow melt in style!

Like upholstering a 5-gallon bucket of snow melt!

There’s a saying about breakfast: Eggs are a contribution but bacon takes commitment.

Scientists may change that. They’re perfecting pork made from pig stem cells.

The results so far are squishy and a little low in protein, but promising for hot dogs.

The possible (repeat: possible) environmental benefits are eye-opening. If livestock raising could be cut way back, greenhouse gas emissions, land use and water use might drop by 95 percent.

Of course, there could be other ramifications: Health effects of eating engineered meat will be carefully watched.

At any rate, keep an eye out for specials on lab chops.

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The NFPA 1600 iPhone app!

Searchable emergency preparedness info at your fingertips: best practices, web links, agency phone numbers and more.

All for the low, low price of FREE.

I’m going to link to a episode of Hoarders, the eye-opening TV program about people whose homes become crammed with things that they can’t throw away, and let me first express sympathy for those profiled. They and their loved ones suffer. This clip shows two hoarders seeking improvement and therapy. I respect that and wish the best for them and their families.

Having said that, my fellow Pigger Dan noticed that the PIG® logo makes a brief appearance at the 6-minute mark. It’s always nice to be in the middle of cleanup operations.

A recent letter of interpretation from OSHA mandates high-visibility warning garments for highway and road construction workers .

“Highway construction workers should not suffer serious or fatal injuries simply because they could not be seen,” said Jordan Barab, acting Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA.

The new letter supersedes an earlier ruling requiring high-visibility garments only where mandated by the Federal Highway Administration’s Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD). OSHA considers road and construction traffic a well-recognized hazard to highway/road construction workers, bolstered by Bureau of Labor Statistics data (2003-2007) showing 425 fatalities in road construction zones.

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How can 500 worker deaths be a worthy goal?

Could the safety sign below possibly violate not eight, not nine, but ten OSHA/ANSI standards?

Yep. Take the quiz.

More thinking goes into the design of those things than you might guess …

I don’t want to include a link to the story, but I just read about a worker’s dying back in May while performing maintenance inside a large ice machine that suddenly powered up. The details are disturbing: OSHA found that the company had done nothing to protect workers as it relates to maintaining this machine: no safety measures or training. The person killed may not even have understood there was danger.

It’s a sad reminder that lockout/tagout helps prevent death and injury and that it’s vital for companies to meet their responsibilities to worker safety.