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Browse Balmert Consulting articles about Safety Meeting Topics, with practical safety leadership ideas for frontline teams and managers.
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Risky Conditions
February 15, 2021
Getting behind the wheel of a vehicle and drive to work. In a typical year in the US, ten times as many of us suffer fatal injuries out on the streets and highways than we do on the job. Most of us spend more time working than we do driving, and face a lot more hazards on the job…
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Beware Complacency
January 18, 2021
Complacency is a state of mind characterized by an absence of fear. If there really were nothing to fear, there’s nothing to hurt you. When there is something that can hurt you and you’re not fearful, beware…
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Fall From Height
November 17, 2020
In this edition of the NewsFlash Paul asks a simple question about a preventable tragedy.
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A Fall From Height
October 15, 2020
Sometimes workplace accidents happen in public places. Case in point: a fall that claimed the lives of two men working on the overhead power lines at a street intersection. The effect on the public…
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The Injury Triangle
September 15, 2020
The Injury Triangle© is such a simple model of what it takes to get hurt. Here’s a case when person and the object are stunningly obvious. As to where the energy came from….
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Asking “Where?”
August 17, 2020
When the time comes to look for the hazards that can hurt you, where do you look? Without giving that question a lot of thought, you might answer…
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Life Critical Safety Rules
July 15, 2020
Does your operation have life critical safety rules? Many do, for things like suspended loads, elevated work and entering confined spaces. When you don’t follow the rules for hazards like those…
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Habits
June 15, 2020
It’s now been more than 90 days since the world around us was transformed by a hazard so small as to be invisible to the human eye. The next time you fill out a…
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Has Coronavirus Increased Stress On Your Job?
May 15, 2020
People are worried about a serious hazard they can’t see. They’re being forced to change the way they do their jobs, some in very significant ways. They’re worried about their….
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