Safety professionals

Your sphere of influence

Check out your demeanor everyday – it’s a difference maker

David Sarkus MS, CSP

January 2, 2014

I like Subway and a few times a month I eat there. But there’s one location I no longer visit.

High performance for Hand, Arm and Body Protection

December 4, 2013

The advanced properties of the Taeki5® protective gears are allowing safety professionals to address the toughest requirements for Hand Arm Body protection

Proposed: Change our name from the safety profession to the injury prevention profession

Phil La Duke

December 4, 2013

For the record, I’m against euphemisms; I believe masking the inadequacies or social stigma of one state by calling it something else is wrong-headed and pathetic. I’ve been called a lot of things, but politically correct isn’t one of them.

Anchovies – Reality facing you

Mike Williamsen Ph.D., CSP

November 26, 2013

I am sure many of you have watched portions of the various “reality” programs that are so pervasive these days. The scenes are very well staged with close up video that is oh so perfect.

OSHA’s electronic injury/illness recordkeeping data regulation,

or OSHA adopts Saul Alinsky’s “Twelve Rules for Radicals”

Tom Lawrence CSP, P.E.

November 21, 2013

The current administration looks to Saul Alinsky’s “Twelve Rules for Radicals” for their guidance. OSHA has now stepped in this direction and away from safety principles. Their first foray was the Shaming Press Releases.

New Grainger ad campaign: From supplies and solutions to service and empathy

November 6, 2013

Grainger recently launched its new advertising campaign, “Get it. Got it. Good.”

Benefits of building a safety network

Lisa Bucki

November 6, 2013

While consolidation, channel proliferation and personal protective equipment (PPE) vending trends continue to shape the industrial distribution landscape in 2013

Beyond Safety 2014 Conference to feature contractor safety awards ceremony for BP Whiting Refinery Project

BP to hold their annual Contractor Safety Awards at fourth annual Beyond Safety & Reliability Conference and Expo in February

November 5, 2013

BP’s Contractor Safety Awards will once again be held at the annual Beyond Safety & Reliability Conference and Expo. The fourth annual Beyond Safety & Reliability Conference and Expo is a two day conference that features and welcomes top safety and reliability professionals from across the Midwest.