What is Safety Nerd?
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A person who lives, breathes and thinks about workplace safety to an unhealthy and unsociable extent. Always on the lookout to get "musculo-skeletal disorder" into ordinary conversation in the deluded hope the person listening will be impressed. Avoided at parties.
"I thought we'd get something done in the meeting, but it was wall-to-wall safety nerds: I thought my brain was going to explode after an hour.
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