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6 Tips To Empower Safety Leaders
I hate working from ladders – especially when I’m working from a ladder under pressure. Put me on a ladder to leisurely clean gutters? Cool. Put me on a ladder in an underground coal mine working with a fast-paced production crew? Not so much. As I attempted to set a guide point into the roof…
Is Fracking Good or Bad?
In 2001, a business associate asked me if I thought fracking was a good thing or a bad thing. I responded by asking him if he was in favor of U.S. independence from foreign oil. He said, “Well, it depends.” I asked, “On what?” He replied, “On whether it’s a good thing or a bad…
Four Keys to Shifting Safety Culture
Twenty years ago, I was a supervisor responsible for production and safety at an aggregates operation, with a clear and simple corporate goal to be the low-cost supplier. We took our marching orders, ran the processing plant hard, and kept our costs low. Safety was on our radar, but it wasn’t in our soul. We…
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A producer needed to permit and rezone 350 acres to expand an existing sand and gravel operation located in the heart of a residential community and bordering an elementary school.
