I Know My Shoes Are Untied.: Mind Your Own Business!

Product Description

This isn’t a book about safety; well okay it IS a book about safety, but it’s also a social commentary about the state of safety in the modern workplace. Phil La Duke’s writing is delightfully raw and visceral. Culled from his blog, guest blogs, and magazine articles La Duke’s writing is witty, caustic, provocative, instructive, and a verbal roller coaster that is fun to read even for people who don’t work in the twisted world of worker safety. As much as anything this book is about Phil La Duke love of language it’s fun to read because the author lets you get inside his head—admittedly a scary place to be.  
I Know My Shoes Are Untied. Mind Your Own business will take you out of your comfort zone.  It will poke you and prod you and Phil La Duke doesn’t care if you agree with him, in fact, he disdains the sycophants and mindless drones who fawn over everything he says and writes almost as much as he does the pedantic “ass hats” who he believes sell snake oil and get workers killed.  In the words of the esteemed risk expert, Dr. Robert Long, “Phil is not afraid to tear down the sacred icons in the temple. I wish there were more like Phil who understood that much of what is believed in the safety industry is both unprofessional and delusional. This is a practical book. It ends with advice and tools for how to be more effective in helping others tackle risk. His discussion about sleep and fatigue is particularly simple, direct and helpful. The discussion about ‘Five Steps to Becoming a More Successful Safety Leader’ is a stand out and constructs a positive finish for the book.”
If you have ever had a safety practitioner tell you something stupid, or told you that you couldn’t do your job a certain way, or if you have a loved one who has a job, you should read this book.  If you don’t have a job but this book down.  You can’t afford it and you’re getting your greasy paw prints all over the cover.

Review

“Chris Rock once said: “You can only offend me if you mean something to me”. Phil’s writing doesn’t pull punches and may be a bit like someone swinging a bag of broken glass in a crowded room but if his words cut deep and gouge a lot of nerves it’s only because he has the insight and courage to articulate what many of us are thinking and, for the rest, still struggling with weird feelings, he puts his gnarly finger right on it. People love him because he has empathy and vents on their behalf, people hate him because he has figured them out, exposed them, challenged their worldview and sent their cognitive dissonance into meltdown. Either way, Phil’s writing means something to everyone. He has inspired and completely changed the trajectory and style of my own writing. In the words of another safety literary legend and fellow Phil Fan, the late George Robotham: “It would be a boring world if everybody agreed with me”.
–Dave Collins, Creator, Editor, and Publisher https: //safetyrisk.net/
“Phil’s passion comes through in virtually everything he writes. He is an outspoken advocate for employee engagement and respect for workers”
–Dr. Paul Marciano, Best selling author of Carrots and Sticks Don’t Work: Build a Culture of Employee Engagement with the Principles of Respect and Super Teams: Using the Principles of Respect to Unleash Explosive Business Performance
“Phil La Duke is an original. After Phil they broke the mold. Certainly his thoughts and ideas on workplace safety and health fit no mold. Phil is no safety drone. His writing is provocative, sometime blunt, sometimes insulting, sometimes raw. His is an outsider’s take, almost an outlaw’s take, on what is good, bad and ugly about current workplace safety thinking and practices. It’s a perspective you won’t find anywhere else.”
–Dave Johnson, Editor. ISHN magazine

“Phil La Duke has devoted his career to industrial safety. He knows the importance of doing an unglamorous job well and what goes terribly wrong when people don’t. He is angry about all