Despite Magnificent Evolution, YOUR Safety Cannot be Your Employer’s Top Priority May 14, 2010From the MRW Water Cooler:
Q: Mike,
Years ago this country’s workers were deliberately kept in the dark about the dangers of their work and to stand up against employers or to question the practices would risk them being fired.
Personal responsibility is obviously important and when we feel it is the company’s fault we look for justice. We are a country of ...read more...
A One Size Safety Approach Doesn’t Fit All or Make You Safer April 27, 2010From the MRW Water Cooler:
Q: Mike,
I can’t imagine any company saying that safety is not their number one priority and companies offer items to keep the workers safe, so maybe I do not understanding the concept of “Safety Third”.
Also, I think many of us feel profits are put before worker safety. Is it just disregarding employee’s verses the economic ...read more...
What’s Riskier – Working Without a Net or Without Personal Responsibility? April 22, 2010Companies spend millions and millions of dollars trying to convince their employees that individual safety is the company’s NUMBER ONE PRIORITY. In my opinion, that is illogical, untrue and counter-intuitive to encouraging optimum vigilance in an employee. Certainly, management based safety programs are critical and greatly reduce on the job injuries; I’ve never said otherwise. But dangerous environments cannot be ...read more...
American Profile Magazine Profiles Mike Rowe April 1, 2010It’s a Dirty Job But TV’s Mike Rowe rolls up his sleeves and gets it done
by M.B. Roberts
On every episode of the Discovery Channel TV series Dirty Jobs, host Mike Rowe digs in and gets to work at various messy, difficult, strange and sometimes disgusting tasks.
Viewers sometimes wince as he crushes up old toilets or gets up close and personal ...read more...
Once More Unto the Breach Dear Friends, Once More! March 31, 2010One of the really cruel things about television is the way it bends time, at least for the people who make it. A few weeks ago, for instance, the final episode of DJ aired for the current season. (Rather good, if I don’t say so myself.) In it, I found some part-time work for my erstwhile crew on scenic Mackinac ...read more...
Captain Phil February 26, 2010If you’d like to donate to the Seattle Fishermen’s Memorial in honour of Captain Phil, please visit FISHERMEN’S MEMORIAL
A few years ago I was in Seattle, preparing to film the first round of After the Catch. For those of you unfamiliar with the program, After the Catch is a talk show in a bar, where The Captains and crew from ...read more...
While They’re Cleaning Up Over There, Who’s Cleaning Up Over Here? February 23, 2010Yard work. Never cared for it.
Maybe it’s because I grew up in a giant yard in the middle of a forest? Or maybe it’s because the chores never seemed to end? Or maybe it’s because my father embraced a pointless but unwavering commitment to landscaping and curb appeal? Beats me. I can only tell you that my brothers and I were ...read more...
Never Underestimate the Influence of Grandpa January 4, 2010Mike remembers the blue-collar influence of his grandpa and tells how he did follow the blueprint of his grandpa’s life when it came to learning a trade – it was just a different kind of trade.
ancestrymagazine.com
by Janet Bernice Jeys
January 4, 2010
It’s a safe bet that Mike Rowe’s résumé is longer than yours. As the host of the Discovery Channel’s Dirty Jobs, Mike ...read more...
Fast Company’s 30 Second MBA ~ Class is in Session! December 21, 2009Mike Rowe | Host of Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe, Founder of mikeroweWORKS
Mike Rowe has had more jobs than you. In fact, Mike has had more jobs than anyone.
As the creator and executive producer of Discovery Channel’s Emmy®-nominated series DIRTY JOBS WITH MIKE ROWE, Mike has spent years traveling the country, working as an apprentice on over 200 jobs that ...read more...
Safety… do I hear 1? 2? 3? November 24, 200911/23/09
Hi All –
Tonight’s episode of Dirty Jobs is a repack called Safety Third. In it, I look back at some of the bumps and bruises we’ve accumulated in the process of putting this show together and offer a few observations about the role ofrisk in the workplace. The observations made are mine and no one else’s, except where attributed, and reflect nothing ...read more...
Mike Rowe: The Dirtiest, Busiest Guy In Television October 6, 2009Comcast ~ Fancast Blog
by Daniel Frankel
Whether you’re a regular Discovery Channel watcher or not, you know the voice: Mike Rowe’s baritone has been heard on ads pitching everything from Tylenol to, more recently, Ford cars and trucks.
And, of course, if you do watch Discovery, you recognize the 47-year-old San Francisco resident immediately as the voice of ‘Deadliest Catch,’ as well ...read more...
Bailouts, Ball-caps, Chit-Chat, and the Birth of a Commercial August 7, 2009The Water Cooler some interesting points about my appearance in some recent Ford ads. At issue, is the level of authenticity in past spots, as compared to the Mike you know from Dirty Jobs.
I want to show you one of the most recent commercials I shot for Ford. It’s called “The Plan,” and I’m fairly certain that it will not ...read more...
Safety Third – Huh?? August 3, 2009So, you are asking yourself, what is going on? The man that has graced the cover of Grainger’s safety catalog and has done public service announcements for the Army’s “Own the Edge” campaign, is now publicly taking the position that safety is not important? How dare he? What kind of role model is this for a man that frequently finds ...read more...
So… The New Site is Like the Old Site Only Newer and Dirtier July 27, 2009July, 2009
Aloha, from somewhere over the Pacific. As I prepare to re-enter the contiguous 48 for the second time this month, I can finally begin to see the light at the end of a particularly nasty tunnel of production – one that has succeeded in kicking my butt harder and more consistently than any of its predecessors. Not that I’m ...read more...
25 Ways to Jump Start the Auto Industry – Mike’s Alt Version July 20, 2009Mike often writes articles for magazines but because of issues like space constraints, his work is often edited down. We thought it might be interesting to post what Mike actually wrote for this one in particular a few years’ back for Fast Company.
25 Ways to Jump Start the Auto Industry (unabridged)
Mike Rowe is the Executive Producer of Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe, and the ...read more...
From the MRW Water Cooler:
Q: Mike,
I can’t imagine any company saying that safety is not their number one priority and companies offer items to keep the workers safe, so maybe I do not understanding the concept of “Safety Third”.
Also, I think many of us feel profits are put before worker safety. Is it just disregarding employee’s verses the economic ...read more...
Companies spend millions and millions of dollars trying to convince their employees that individual safety is the company’s NUMBER ONE PRIORITY. In my opinion, that is illogical, untrue and counter-intuitive to encouraging optimum vigilance in an employee. Certainly, management based safety programs are critical and greatly reduce on the job injuries; I’ve never said otherwise. But dangerous environments cannot be ...read more...
It’s a Dirty Job But TV’s Mike Rowe rolls up his sleeves and gets it done
by M.B. Roberts
On every episode of the Discovery Channel TV series Dirty Jobs, host Mike Rowe digs in and gets to work at various messy, difficult, strange and sometimes disgusting tasks.
Viewers sometimes wince as he crushes up old toilets or gets up close and personal ...read more...
One of the really cruel things about television is the way it bends time, at least for the people who make it. A few weeks ago, for instance, the final episode of DJ aired for the current season. (Rather good, if I don’t say so myself.) In it, I found some part-time work for my erstwhile crew on scenic Mackinac ...read more...
If you’d like to donate to the Seattle Fishermen’s Memorial in honour of Captain Phil, please visit FISHERMEN’S MEMORIAL
A few years ago I was in Seattle, preparing to film the first round of After the Catch. For those of you unfamiliar with the program, After the Catch is a talk show in a bar, where The Captains and crew from ...read more...
Yard work. Never cared for it.
Maybe it’s because I grew up in a giant yard in the middle of a forest? Or maybe it’s because the chores never seemed to end? Or maybe it’s because my father embraced a pointless but unwavering commitment to landscaping and curb appeal? Beats me. I can only tell you that my brothers and I were ...read more...
Mike remembers the blue-collar influence of his grandpa and tells how he did follow the blueprint of his grandpa’s life when it came to learning a trade – it was just a different kind of trade.
ancestrymagazine.com
by Janet Bernice Jeys
January 4, 2010
It’s a safe bet that Mike Rowe’s résumé is longer than yours. As the host of the Discovery Channel’s Dirty Jobs, Mike ...read more...
July, 2009
Aloha, from somewhere over the Pacific. As I prepare to re-enter the contiguous 48 for the second time this month, I can finally begin to see the light at the end of a particularly nasty tunnel of production – one that has succeeded in kicking my butt harder and more consistently than any of its predecessors. Not that I’m ...read more...