Playing a Vital Role in Improving an Overall Safety Scenario

There is absolutely no doubt that apart from being the legal requirement, it is foremost a moral duty of the employers to ensure a safe workplace or a safe working environment to its employees and the public in general. Employers certainly do play a key role in ensuring that the various kinds of equipments in the factory are correctly following the work safety protocols. So, it is always in the best interest of the organization to provide the first line of defense for its employees against any untoward incidents which may later have a major bearing on their health.

To say the least, it is generally everyone’s responsibility to ensure public safety. There should be a mass scale endeavor to prevent common accidents (such as fire accident) in vehicles, homes, industries etc. Accident prevention can be in the form of education to increase public awareness by safety magazines, posters, clubs and signs. Then off course, Safety Signs and Labels play a key role in rendering protection and prevention against accidents to a large extent.

Above all, safety signs are a great way of providing assistance and guidance to people, particularly employees to clearly understand the messages being conveyed towards prevention and safety. Safety Signs largely consists of words, Messages and a pictorial symbol with variety of shapes, size and colors. Each label color is standardized and reflects a specific meaning. For instance there are signs specifically designed for non-smoking areas. There are also signs referring to potential dangers and hazards like the signs used to remind employees and workers to use protective gear like gloves and helmets. Many workplaces require health and safety signs inside their buildings due to provisions by the law.

Last but not the least, we should always remember that these signs act as constant reminders to keep us on our toes and our loved ones safe by guiding us on things we should avoid so as to find a safe way out from potential hazards that we may come across. Such signs should be recognizable in just a single glance by all the staff members of the business and must be strategically located. Most importantly, all of the employees must be aware of the meanings of the different signs as these are primarily designed to save lives everyday.

A Romantic Paris Walk in The Morning

Aside from plonking yourselves on one of the ubiquitous London-style red double deckers (which at Pad A� Terre we certainly do not recommend), one of the best ways to familiarise yourselves with Paris is to follow a walking-tour itinerary. The following tour has a bit of ‘romantic’ twist to it. We have added transport links (if you insist) but suggest that taking your time to walk the distance is far more rewarding.

Start early in the morning at MA�tro TrocadA�ro on the place for a view of the Eiffel Tower, which is fairly close to all our Paris apartments. Next stop, the MusA�e Rodin. To get there, you can either skip down the steps, across the bridge, under the tower and through the Champ de Mars or take aerial metro line 6 which passes over the Pont Bir-Hakeim (remember Last Tango in Paris?), changing at La Motte-Piquet Grenelle and getting out at La Tour-Maubourg. Once at the museum, walk through the gardens to find the Jardin de Varenne cafA�, a perfect spot for breakfast, complete with birdsong (not guaranteed though).

Hop on the no. 82 bus, on boulevard des Invalides opposite rue de Babylone which takes you all the way to the Jardin de Luxembourg. This is where your Paris vacations start getting more interesting. Get off at the Guynemer Vavin stop and wander through the Italianate park in search of the Medici Fountain, a favourite lovers’ trysting spot. Skirt around the Palais du Luxembourg and take one of the roads north into St-Germain-des-PrA�s. Check out the church of St-Sulpice, a scene of tragic passion in the novel Manon Lescaut, and have a coffee in the CafA� de Flore (172 bd St-Germain, 6th) where intellectual bigwigs Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir used to meet. Take rue Bonaparte to the Seine, look into the Ecole des Beaux-Arts to sigh amid the remains of classical statuary massed here during the Revolution (this is not strictly allowed, but if you don’t look like obvious tourists, you can walk in). Cross the Pont des Arts footbridge which delivers you at the Louvre. Walk through the ornate Cour CarrA� and the Cour NapolA�on, past the glorious glass pyramid, and admire the emperor’s pink marble Arc du Caroussel, built for his wedding to Josephine. Walk under the archway to reach rue de Rivoli.

Take the rue de Rohan which leads to the Palais Royal, a pleasure garden designed for revelry and romancing before the Revolution and now a calm courtyard filled with trees and fountains. In the cloisters are chic shops including Les Salons du Palais-Royal Shisheido (142 Galerie de Valois, 1st) where you can try musky fragrances in an 18th-century inspired dA�cor. If your feeling flushed for cash, have lunch at the Grand VA�four, 17, rue de Beaujolais, 1st (01 42 96 56 27 aE” reservations necessary), one of Paris’ oldest and most historically powered restaurants. The mirror studded dining room is magnificent. And if you’ve got any energy left after lunch, you might consider following our ‘afternoon’ tour aE” separate link. More realistically, you will want to stroll back to your apartment and save that for another day.