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American Heart Month

February presents American Heart Awareness Month. This month take some time to educate your workers on the importance of heart health. Below are some definitions and facts that will help lead your discussion.

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Dealing with the Aftermath of Coronavirus

During this national crisis, we implemented health standards throughout our projects that are here to stay.  We don’t go back to how we did business in the past; we continue implementing our site health and safety protocols that have been put in place

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Leveraging Safety Inspections for a Proactive Safety Culture

Encourage your staff to find as many safety violations items as possible during the week, correct, and log them on your inspection form.  Praise them for having a long list of items that were found and corrected, and trust that over a period of time, if you work the process, the number of items found will decrease. 

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Safe Work Practices When Dealing with Steel Erection

Communication is not only key in a relationship but also between the controlling contractor and the steel erector prior to the beginning of operation.

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Safety and The ‘Care’ Factor

Employees will either work for us, with us, or against us. We lay the foundation for that by how we handle them. The key element to enlisting them to work with us (which is the best outcome), is the ‘care’ factor.

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Who’s Running Your House?

If the employees are not following our basic requirements for safety, whose fault is it?  The Safety Professional is not in charge of the project and has no authority over the employees.  Management should understand that if we have safety issues in our company, start looking at who’s running your house before you fault your safety failures on to the Safety Professional. 

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