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More than a Standard: Why Safety is Personal with ResponsAble 

By John Cambre / January 3, 2025 /

What’s Your Top Priority?  At the start of a new year, people often set a number of ambitious goals – breaking bad habits, starting new exercise regimens, or mapping out strategies for success. But, beneath crafting New Year’s resolutions lies a deeper question for reflection: What do you value most? What’s your top priority?  Are…

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The Last Line of Defense: Personal Protective Equipment

By John Cambre / May 16, 2024 /

When assessing the hazard controls that are in place to protect workers from hazardous conditions, we look at the hierarchy of controls. Safety and health representatives must be knowledgeable about the selection of controls and how they work. The following is the standard approach to that selection: Personal protective equipment may not be the most…

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substance abuse

Why Substance Abuse is a Manager’s Problem

By John Cambre / August 8, 2019 /

Is substance abuse really a consideration for you as a manager of a professional work environment? Here’s a scary fact you may not have considered… nearly half of all workplace injuries are traced back to substance use. Drug and alcohol abuse on the job is more prevalent than we may think. Or maybe you know,…

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Rest and workplace safety

Rest: A Workplace Safety Requirement

By John Cambre / May 10, 2019 /

Psychological research shows proven results that taking breaks from your work, in moderation, significantly increases productivity. Yet this is counter-intuitive to how many of our workplaces and even how our culture functions. Is this true for your work place? If so, there’s a few reasons why rest should be prioritized in safety staffing particularly. Why…

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on boarding employees

On Boarding: Why the Bother?

By John Cambre / October 18, 2018 /

There are as many approaches to On Boarding an employee as there are employers.  Some have a methodical process that slow rolls the employee into their new position while others apply the sink or swim technique with a steep curve right to action. Wherever your business falls along the On Boarding continuum, there are a…

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employee turnover

Tips to Effectively Manage Employee Turnover

By John Cambre / September 17, 2018 /

Keeping Costs Low and Morale Up During Employee Turnover Employee turnover can be a difficult problem for industrial companies. Turnover presents many challenges: ensuring new employees have adequate training, maintaining safety and procedural standards in the workplace, preventing slowdown and inefficiency on the line, preventing increased costs to the company, and maintaining morale among remaining…

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