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Check your OHS legal requirements

Workplace health and safety concerns extend beyond OSHA

July 20, 2020

Whether there is an overpopulation of lawyers in the U.S. is debatable. The more complex, diverse, and open a society is, the greater number of lawyers are necessary to help resolve disputes.

Rise of the OHS entrepreneur

Those willing to take risks can succeed during the pandemic

Dan Markiewicz MS, CIH, CSP, RMP

July 14, 2020

COVID-19 offers great opportunity to consider OHS entrepreneurship. If your OHS job has not been subject to lay off, furloughed, or elimination – or some other drastic change – it likely will be in the coming months.

Overworked and underappreciated

How businesses can protect their employees from burnout

Luke Smith

July 9, 2020

While entrepreneurs may bring incredible ideas to the table, it is employees who are instrumental in bringing them to fruition and pushing them to the next level.

Reopening business during COVID-19: Prioritize health, reduce risk and adapt

Occupational health company pivots as workers return to their jobs

Chad Coleman

June 18, 2020

Like most businesses across the country, Examinetics was greatly affected when the coronavirus pandemic hit.

Best Practices

Post-pandemic: What’s the new normal?

Dan Markiewicz MS, CIH, CSP, RMP

May 13, 2020

The history of the COVID-19 pandemic is still being written. When this pandemic ends – and it will end – a new normal may last for months, years, or forever. Planning for the after-effects of a pandemic is necessary.

Emergency response plans should prepare you for the media

When reporters come calling…

Karen Hamel

December 4, 2019

During emergencies at facilities, a lot of different fast-paced activities are often happening simultaneously. Objectives can include accounting for all personnel, putting out a fire, containing a chemical release, coordinating with outside resources and many others.

Closing Time

What happens in the boardroom affects the front line

Behaviors interlock all down the line

Timothy Ludwig Ph.D.

October 1, 2019

The union steward had just recounted an incident where a supervisor asked one of his workers to step into standing water to work on corroded gauges near the coker. The work needed to be done immediately as it would delay ongoing maintenance on the fractionator to take on different stock feed.

Motion Industries acquires Hydraulic Supply Company

November 7, 2018

Motion Industries, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Genuine Parts Company, announced that it acquired Hydraulic Supply Company (HSC). Execution of the transaction was completed on October 1, 2018.

Snow Phipps Group acquires BlackHawk Industrial Distribution

November 7, 2018

Headquartered in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, BlackHawk is a leading distributor of cutting tools, abrasives and industrial MRO products used in manufacturing, aerospace & defense, energy, auto aftermarket, construction, general industrial, medical and agriculture applications.

The next recession is coming — by 2021

November 7, 2018

Two-thirds of business economists in the U.S. expect a recession to begin by the end of 2020, with trade policy presenting the greatest risk to the expansion, according to a new survey reported by Bloomberg. So you can keep the panic button under lock and key.