Kyle Kohlman
Occupational safety is an extremely serious topic to cover and train. There’s no short-cutting when it comes to safety at work or at home for that matter. Unfortunately, training classes and videos can also be extremely boring and dry when presented to employees. However, there is a growing number of videos circulating around the web…
Lets be honest, there are threats that surround our children anywhere and everywhere, at anytime. Unless you wrap your children in bubble wrap before you leave for work everyday, they’re at risk of something. However, some risks are more serious than others and just the awareness alone is sometimes all it takes to protect your…
Here Comes September The month of September brings a handful of changes to our busy lives. It’s usually the time of year where we ask ourselves what happened to summer and have to quickly adjust to the new season that awaits us. As our days get shorter and the little ones get ready to embark…
Some will flat out tell you that workplace accidents are inevitable and that they just happen. While this is true to an extent, there are definitely things you can do to limit and hopefully prevent workplace accidents from happening. The National Safety Council defines an accident as an “undesired event that results in personal injury…
Last year, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) released the 2012 edition of NFPA 70E: Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace® which was full of revisions and updates from previous versions. Unfortunately, several organizations are still struggling with the NFPA 70E revisions. Now that the federal Occupational Safety and Health Act have adopted most of…
Whether you’re oblivious to it or not, there’s no doubt about the importance of workplace safety. The numbers simply don’t lie, workplace safety is no joke. Every day in America, 13 people go to work and never come home. Every year in America, nearly 4 million people suffer a workplace injury from which they never…
We’ve all had that one class in school where the possibility of a pop quiz seemed to always keep us on our toes. You studied harder, stayed awake during lectures and always showed up to that class on time. The workplace equivalent to a pop quiz would be the feared random OSHA inspection. Scary as…
Summer is in full swing across the states and the time to venture out, is running out. Road trips have become a sort of American past time over the years and with fall right around the corner, August is the last chance for most to get their adventures in. So it’s a perfect time to…
For over seven years now Creative Safety Supply (CSS) has been a leader in visual safety. Recently, a new division of CSS has sprung into action in the form of Creative Safety Publishing. The publishing division holds the same mission as the parent division, but with limitless capabilities to improve workplace safety and help spread…
Special thanks to lean extraordinaire Mark Graban for giving us all a good laugh and something to reflect on. Back to Basics While we laugh and enjoy this video, it should be no surprise that this is an all too common occurrence within organizations trying to implement lean. 5S and lean are supposed to make…