LP Gas, March 2014
HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES Continued from page 69 of GAS Check forms and training tapes They were the kind of tapes where you could sit an employee down and train them on how to do a GAS Check what to look for how to fill out the forms things to say to your customers and so forth In addition to employee training videos Myers says Honeywell produced a GAS Check video to educate customers Employees could go into the customers homes sit the homeowner down at the kitchen table and pop in the tape Myers says The tape would explain why the propane serviceman was here and the kind of check they were going to do One reason videos were produced to explain GAS Check was to deliver a consistent message from customer to customer Charlie knew the problems employees were going to have Myers says Some guys were high school dropouts or eighth grade educated They werent articulate and wouldnt be able to explain everything So Charlie made Sawyer Gas which expanded to seven northeast Florida locations at its height was a venture Sawyers brother launched in Jacksonville Beach with a partner sure every employee who went out there and talked to customers told the same story That was very logical and was the appropriate thing to do According to Sawyer GAS Check was well received by the industry after he and others introduced the program at state conventions and meetings To his recollection only one major company resisted GAS Check while all others welcomed it I think it was accepted because there was no hidden result of these accidents says Sawyer who estimates two to three years passed between GAS Checks inception and its finalization People were becoming more and more aware Insurance companies jumped on it big time the ones insuring the gas companies They became a major partner in selling the program Id imagine there were 40 or 50 people involved in all he adds Some larger companies provided their safety engineers to help It was a program whose time had come There was a need and the need had probably been there for some time All of this came together at the perfect time Thats why it went over so well Other contributions In addition to his role in developing GAS Check Sawyer was also a member of the industrys National Committee on Propane Allocation and Price Regulations during the control period of the 1970s His role on this committee Sawyer pictured second from left with his family during a Christmas gathering 70 LPGas March 2014 www LPGasmagazine com
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