Chair Safety

1999: Due to a spate of "chair-related injuries", the employees in the Seattle Police Department's Identification Unit all had to take a training session on how to safely sit in a chair.

I guess chair safety is one of those things that sounds silly, until you hurt yourself sitting down wrong. Below, Regina Cochrane, "professional accident preventer," offers some chair safety tips.

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Posted By: Alex - Wed Apr 07, 2021
Category: Accidents | Furniture | 1990s

Comments

There is a Dilbert cartoon about mandatory chair safety training. https://dilbert.com/strip/1996-06-19

Posted by eddi on 04/08/21 at 09:47 PM

And never mind trying to sit on a chair when you've already slipped a disc... oh, my poor colleague!

Posted by Richard Bos on 04/10/21 at 05:27 AM

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