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Outsource Safety Staffing and Watch Your Business Grow

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We know that the administrative load of HR duties can be overwhelming. All of the details of managing employees, payroll, safety and compliance can weigh heavy on your mind. More than likely you ALWAYS feel like you have too much to do. There are only so many hours in a day.

Time is your greatest resource- shouldn’t you be using it to focus on growth strategies? When you outsource safety staffing, it allows you to create some margin, to find time you otherwise wouldn’t have in your schedule to focus on what’s next. Partnering with ResponsAble frees you up to grow and we want to help you streamline your processes in order to boost your bottom line. One of our goals is to alleviate the admin “busy work” burden from you so that you can get back to doing what you do best.

Get back to business.

We offer our clients the convenience of handing off all of the paperwork and administrative work involved with hiring, paying, and managing people to us when you outsource your safety staffing. Our services will significantly reduce the time you spend on paper processes, giving you much more of a competitive advantage to focus on doing what only you can do. Give your HR functions to us so that you can get back to business. And as you grow, we’ll grow with you.

Here’s three reasons why it makes good business sense to outsource your safety staffing:

1. Save time and money: We onboard new employees saving you administration and processing.

2. Focus on strategy: Spend more time getting new business and looking for growth opportunities.

3. Increase compliance: When you hire us, the safety staffing experts, compliance is no longer a concern. We guarantee that you will meet all compliance standards with our staff and employees.

We are your ally.

We want to become an extension of your business and an ally that helps go grow to where you want to go. When you outsource safety staffing to us, we take on the HR functions of employee assistance, temporary staffing, background checks, training and development, payroll and more. To speak to us more about outsourcing, give us a call at 225-753-1909.

The Economic and Ethical Roles Played by Safety Professionals

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From the top of an organization down, we can all agree that we want our companies to run as efficiently as possible AND be the safest environment it can be for all employees, right? This goal is easy when you hire the right people- safety staff hired by us! Safety professionals play economic and ethical roles and we’ve done the research to make this case.

The economic role of safety professionals.


We know that corporate management has goals that they want to accomplish in productivity and revenue, but here’s the thing: safety professionals share the same goals.

We’ve seen success when management promotes safety solutions that achieve goals such as efficiency. How do we measure success? Perhaps this definition resonates with you: “Success is clearly dependent on the quality and wellbeing of  your workforce” – NCS

We want to present a business case for you to invest in your organization’s safety because the long-term benefits far outweigh the “costs”. This kind of investment is an investment into your greatest assets- your people.


Tangible & Intangible Benefits of Safety Investment

The benefits for investing in the safety of your organization are both tangible and intangible. David Galt from ASSE provides examples of each:

  • Tangible benefits: increased revenues, decreased costs, cash glow, faster time to market, employee productivity, operational efficiency, increased capacity, decreased employee absenteeism and turnover, higher quality, increased market share, and improved customer retention.
  • Intangible benefits: technical expertise, company reputation, employee morale, innovation, compliance risk, and political support or influence.

ASSE argues that managers will determine the contribution of safety programs according to the impact on the following priorities:

1.     Control costs.

2.     Comply with regulations, government mandates, judicial interpretations or directives.

3.     Support business initiatives (strategies for growth, new technologies, competitive advantage).

4.     Enhance the organization’s image and reputation (public relations, reporting, disclosure).

5.     Everything else such as investor demands, employee considerations, insurance…

We put our investments in what we value. If we value the tangible and intangible benefits mentioned above, we will invest in safety professionals without thinking of it as a “cost”.

The ethical roles of safety professionals.


OSH professional organizations have developed codes of ethical behavior for members, which can be defined as the making of sound choices that reflect the professional view of prudent conduct, including factors such as honesty, integrity, and accuracy.

The success of OHS is determined by what does NOT occur- injuries and damages, etc. rather that what DOES occur. Unfortunately, these successes are often unnoticed because the failures attract more attention than the successes. While laws and regulations regarding safety inform us of what safety professionals should NOT do, ethics instruct us in what we SHOULD do. It’s about doing the right thing, not just avoiding the wrong thing.
Unsafe conditions and accidents are symptoms of problems in the organizational management system. In this philosophy, senior management ultimately is responsible for building an ethical system that effectively can analyze and control workplace hazards…

We do believe ethics start from the top of the organization and filters down, but we hire and train our safety professionals that have such strong ethics that they can provide positive influence on a job site.

EHS continues:

…safety professionals must promote a more ethical approach to managing their own profession. This strategy requires moral courage, conviction and professional unity, including a bottom-up approach at their worksites and through professional organizations, and understanding the need to look out for workers and the public…


If you would like to continue this conversation, we would love to further discuss the different roles that safety professionals play. Our safety professionals are high quality, experienced employees that can add value to your organization. Click here to read more and give us a call at 225-753-1909!

Quality Safety Personnel: Get Access to Our Continuously Growing Database

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Continuously Growing Database

Just last week I got a call from a client in Ohio that needed safety personnel for job at a refinery to start immediately, just as soon as we could work out the logistics.

Most of the calls that we get from clients are safety managers that need people on the site within days (more like yesterday). Not only do they need someone to fill the role quickly, but they need a high quality safety professional- someone who has been trained, meets set expectations, is certified, qualified, has passed drug tests and background checks, and can start immediately.

Luckily, we have enough people in our database that we can meet this need quickly and match high quality safety professionals to clients that really needed them yesterday.

Set a Higher Standard for Your Hiring Processes

When you’re pressed for time and you need to fill positions quickly to ramp up for a job, don’t hire just anyone; it’s not worth the risk. As tempting as it may be to make the fast and easy hires, it’s better for you to be picky in the selection of your safety professionals.

When you make desperate hires (untrained, unexperienced people) in a time crunch, you send a negative message to your employer that can be damaging to your reputation. You do not want to put untrained, unexperienced safety professionals on a worksite, as it will inevitably create worksite issues and an unsafe environment.

Get Access to Our Stream of Qualified Safety Personnel

When you hire ResponsAble to take over your safety hiring process, you get access to a continually growing pool of highly qualified safety professionals. Our safety professionals stay consistently employed so they stay sharp in their training and skill level. We don’t supply you with just warm bodies; we have a ready pool of trained and reliable safety personnel that have years of experience.

Our hiring process includes:

  • Full background checks & drug testing
  • Ranking to check skill levels and specialties.
  • Ongoing training, certification and development to improve each individual’s fit with more positions and companies.

Hire a Safety Staffing Specialist that Recruits & Trains Around the Clock

ResponsAble Safety Staffing works around the clock, continuously recruiting, training, and adding highly qualified safety personnel to our team. We do this year round to acquire a pool of qualified safety personnel to match them to employers. We never stop searching for the best of the best to send to our clients.

This continuously growing database of talent is an ongoing stream for companies like yours that need safety staff to ramp up new jobs quickly:

  • Temporary ramp up for quick turnarounds
  • Expansion Projects
  • Interim Positions

We are the Safety Staffing Specialists

Our safety personnel are better screened, trained, and more experienced because we are 100% focused on safety staffing. This benefits you in upholding a professional image and reputation, fewer hassles, and a safer job site. We can give you all this on demand, from an ever-growing database of quality safety professionals.

You may not have time to seek out highly qualified safety professionals in a time crunch, but we do. In fact, we don’t have to find them. We already have them, and they’re ready to go. Contact us today to learn how to outsource your safety staffing with us, the safety staffing experts. Give us a call at 225-753-1909!

Why Traditional Staffing Agencies Fall Short in Your Industry

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You have an industrial work environment. A manufacturing plant. A construction site. A refinery. A petrochemical terminal.

Let’s face it- most of the time you’re not looking for clerical help or for an IT guy to fix your computers.

What you’re looking for is high quality, temporary help- strong and capable individuals that really understand safety. You need a guy comfortable in a hard hat and face mask.

Traditional staffing agencies are generalists. They’re not going to have the quality safety staff that you’re looking for. Although generalists are a great resource for some companies, they fall short in your industry.

Here’s 4 reasons why traditional staffing agencies fall short in your industry:

  1. They don’t provide the specific skills you need.

Here’s what you need to know about traditional staffing agencies: they take pride in the size of their workforce, but it isn’t the specific workforce that you’re looking for. They’ll have typists, clerical workers, file clerks, warehouse workers, dock hands, receptionists, and more. These are generalists and variety is what they do well. They can handle many needs, but not yours.

You’re not looking for generalists, you’re looking for specific skills. You need safety specialists that are comfortable and equipped to work in an industrial environment. A general staffing agency is not what you want- you need a specialist.

  1. They cost you more money than a specialist.

Think about the costs that it takes to keep a variety of specialty trades and people on a payroll. The training, wages, benefits, continuing education, tools, supplies, equipment, and management costs can really add up. The truth is, it can be very expensive for a general staffing agency to maintain such a diverse staff.

Providing variety costs money. And you pay for it.

If you choose a generalist, you are paying for those who work for you. And by default, you’re also paying for those who aren’t.

A traditional, general staffing agency has to keep a great variety of people on the payroll, maintain all their benefits, and market each of the services they offer. The management of it all is costly. You’re going to be the one paying for it.

  1. They don’t understand your industry.

OSHA. You’re very acquainted with them. You work hard to maintain regulations and to provide a safe and healthy workplace.

Even an unintended violation can cost you thousands of dollars, threaten the safety of your workers, and negatively affect the reputation that you’ve worked so hard to build.

A general staffing agency cannot provide the level of OSHA training and expertise that a specialist like ourselves can provide. An industrial safety staffing specialist will know more, will receive more training, and will have more experience.

We’re a part of your industry and we understand the regulations that you’re responsible for maintaining. We can team up with you to make sure that your workplace meets every standard and safety regulation.

  1. They provide variety, not excellence in one area.

It’s been said by many successful business leaders that it’s better to focus concentrated efforts on doing one thing well than to try to do many things mediocre.

We embrace this notion and our niche of providing excellent safety staff for industrial companies like yourself.

You just can’t expect a generalist staffing agency to provide the very best industrial staffing workforce. In fairness, it just isn’t what they do.

Their focus is to provide a workforce that meets almost every need. Almost.

In your search for industrial specialists, look to a specialist staffing agency. It’s all we do. And we tend to do it very well.

Let’s talk about how we can move your business forward together in the new year. Give us a call at 225-753-1909.

The Risks of NOT Outsourcing Safety Staffing: Part 1

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No matter what kind of projects you oversee, most companies can use extra safety personnel at some point. However, you may not be able to justify the need for a full-time staff. This is where a safety staffing agency, such as ResponsAble, can provide you with the temporary employees you need to help with a wide variety of your safety needs.

We believe that building a close relationship with a staffing agency can help ensure that workers possess the skills, training and experience that is needed to meet your needs. Over the years, we’ve seen what can happen to companies that try to handle their staffing in house or work with general staffing agencies. The risks can seriously hurt your pocketbook, so choose your safety staffing strategy wisely.

The Risks of NOT Outsourcing Safety Staffing:

  1. Turnover Costs

The statistics are staggering:

  • Over 50% of people recruited will leave within 2 years
  • 1 in 4 new employees will leave within 6 months
  • Over 50% of organizations experience regular turnover
  • Nearly 70% of organizations report difficulty in replacing staff

This overwhelming attrition has a negative financial impact due to the cost of recruiting, hiring, training a replacement employee, and the overtime work of the current employees that is required until the vacant position is filled.

Estimates place attrition costs at an unbelievable 125% of salary.

You can’t afford to halt your entire job until you have recruited, trained and on-boarded a new position. And we can all agree that safety postions are NOT the jobs for which you want to speed folks through training.

  1. Injuries and Related Costs

The cost of workplace injuries, illnesses and deaths is much greater than the cost of insurance alone. A comprehensive safety and health program reduces insurance rates, improves the work environment, and reduces overall injury expense.

For the employer, a safe workplace not only protects the workers from injury (which should be the number one priority), but it can also lower the cost due to injury or illness, reduce the incidents of absenteeism and turnover, increase productivity and raise employee morale.

Without the safety processes in place, the cost to a business could include:

  • Loss of production
  • Increased workers’ compensation insurance costs
  • Damage to equipment and machinery
  • Increased training and hiring costs due to high turnover
  • Lost work time
  • Decline in worker morale

These losses can be avoided by allowing us, the safety specialists, to do this part of the job for you!

Get better-trained workers on demand.

We recruit safety employees on all levels from entry-level hole watch to Certified Safety Professionals. On top of their traditional training, we provide additional training needed to work safely. With our highly refined database of safety personnel, we provide you with workers who meet and exceed your need for trained safety staff, no matter what your need may be.

We know that what you need is a supply chain with extra, fully-trained safety professionals that you can just call up when you need a position filled. We’re committed to providing you with safety professionals that you can feel confident in upon beginning the job.

ResponsAble takes care of all the details so that you can get the job done. Call us today at 225-753-1909 or click here for a FREE quote.

From the Staffing Experts: How to Have a Successful Interview

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Here at ResponsAble Safety Staffing, we’re always recruiting, interviewing and hiring new people to fill safety staffing positions. We have conducted countless interviews on behalf of our clients, and through our years of experience we’ve seen great interviews and bad interviews, giving us an area of expertise in the interview process.

Here’s some advice to the job-seeker that is prepping for an interview:  

Before the Interview: 

  • Make sure you meet all the requirements of the job to which you are applying. Don’t waste time interviewing for a job you’re not actually qualified for. Carefully read the application to make sure that you meet the basic requirements before moving forward.  
  • Do some research on the company that you’re interviewing with. What exactly does this company do? What would be your role in this company? Use the internet to get as much information as you can. 
  • Also, if you know who will be interviewing you, begin researching that person as well. Look them up on the company’s website and search for them on social media networks (they’re probably stalking you too!). If you do your research, the first interview won’t feel as much like a blind date.  
  • Dress appropriately. Don’t be sloppy or look like you just rolled out of bed.  
  • Remember to use good hygiene!  
  • Give yourself plenty of time to arrive early to the interview. 

During the Interview: 

  • Come in with lots of energy and enthusiasm.  
  • Be polite and friendly. The first five minutes of the interview are incredibly important so make sure to make a good first impression.  
  • Turn your phone off and put it away. Eliminate even the temptation to look at your phone. 
  • When the questions start coming, speak confidently. Try to avoid being too short or vague by using one or two word answers.  
  • Be honest and speak objectively about both your strengths and weaknesses.   
  • Don’t share negative details about your old boss or old co-workers. 
  • Don’t just ask about the benefits that the job will offer you.  
  • Get on the side of the interviewer by sharing a common interest in the company. How can you work together to make things better? What can you offer and bring to the table? You can win over the interviewer by joining their side and sharing their interest.  

After the Interview: 

  • After all questions have been asked and the interview is done, leave on a positive note. Shake the interviewer’s hand, sincerely thank them for their time for the interview, and leave with your head held high. Leave just as confidently as you were when you walked in, no matter how the interview went in your mind.  
  • Don’t immediately bombard them with questions about when the hiring decision will be made.  

If you’re an employer looking to hire staff, ResponsAble Safety Staffing can take the details of recruiting, interviewing, and hiring off of your plate. We provide highly qualified and trained safety personnel to industrial and commercial businesses for both short-term and long-term needs.  We strive to meet the ever-changing needs of our customers with flexibility, service and urgency. Contact us on our website or pick up the phone and give us a call at (225) 753-1909.