Preventable deaths are always frustrating, and just as tragic, if not more so, than any other death. When trying to drive home a point about safety, whether it's around cargo tankers, general traffic, heavy equipment or any other situation, being able to explain the point through case studies can be an effective tool in furthering [...]
When it comes to working with cargo tankers, it would actually be a good thing if a supervisor said, "You're grounded." Those could be the safest words you could ever hear. Cargo tankers are often some of the more dangerous vehicles on the road, not just for other drivers and vehicles but even for the [...]
Leadership is not about being fearless. It's about standing up to the fear and not letting it take your power. In business, fear of change, fear of risk, fear of failure can seem like very real fears. But a leader should be able to stand in the face of this fear and do what is [...]
Fear can be perhaps the most powerful emotion we have in our human arsenal. But rarely is it used in a productive way, and even more rarely is it used for good. And therein lies part of the problem with fear when in a leadership position. When you have a chance to make change and [...]
President Franklin Roosevelt famously said, "The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself." I was never really sure if that was completely reassuring, but it was a line that kept America going in the throes of World War Ii and the Great Depression - both of which America came out victorious. But when [...]
Healthcare has been under siege in several ways. We claim to want and need healthcare as some sort of human right, and yet we seem to treat it for granted, and many great servants of hte people are getting hurt or killed from doing their jobs. This is not even to discuss how the Affordable [...]
For those of you who have been reading this blog for any amount of time, you know I make no bones about ergonomics and its importance in the workplace in developing safe and healthy habits. I just recently wrote a whole series of posts about ergonomics management systems in the workplace. So if you know [...]
Sometimes safety rules aren't just about individuals - they are for the collective public. While virtually all safety rules and regulations are designed to protect individuals, of course there is an element that looks to protect others on the worksite, or the public, or vendors/contractors - anyone who may be in vicinity of some potentially [...]
I will speak up here and say that I am quite appreciative of the work that labor unions have performed over the last 100 years. Because of their advocacy for workers, U.S. and Canada governments have passed a number of laws and regulations regarding worker safety, wages, and other benefits that have created a much [...]
Many of us read headlines in the news. Maybe we don't read the stories because of their sensationalism, but many of us do remember reading the headlines anyway. There was a time not too long ago that the Mexican casual-dining chain, Chipotle, got into the headlines quite a bit, but not for good things. For [...]
