For many safety professionals, pursuing safety as a career is something that they find somewhere along the way, a path they may not have always envisioned taking, but found that it merits a strong career choice. For others safety finds them, sometimes through unfortunate means. For Joe Atkinson SMS, currently in his 15^th year of SH&E service, it was a workplace injury his mother sustained while he was a child that would set him on the path to becoming a safety professional.