Podcasts about safety specialist

On this week's show, Keith spoke to John McNamara, Health and Safety Specialist with Teagasc, Minister Martin Heydon on the recent budget and John McCabe about an upcoming dairy event.

On this episode of the IHSA Safety Podcast, we celebrate the career of an occupational health and safety professional, Tom Nicolls. Tom started his career in the Electrical Utility industry 38 years ago with Hydro One, and has been a significant contributor to occupational health and safety in Ontario through various channels and roles.Tom shares his experiences over the length of his extensive career, including his inspiration to pursue a career in health and safety after witnessing severe accidents as a lineman at Ontario Hydro and recognizing the critical need for safety protocols. He went on to become an Occupational Health and Safety Specialist with the Power Workers Union, which represents 90% of electrical workers in distribution, transmission, and generation of power across Ontario.One memorable moment from Tom's career was his involvement in standardizing the Utility Work Protection Code across the province after an ice storm in Toronto. The code ensures the safety of workers in distribution and transmission systems in Ontario, and its standardization has had a long-lasting effect across the province.Tom has dedicated a lot of his time to volunteer activities, committees, and boards, including serving as chair of Section 21 Utility Provincial Labour Management Committee, as well as co-chair on the Board of IHSA.Free ResourcesLearn about the dangers of working around electrical hazards (ihsa.ca)Occupational Health and Safety: The Physical Work EnvironmentIHSA COR® PodcastSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Introduction Chief Jack Jones has served for over 35 years in several emergency service roles.   The chief's positions include:   - Fire Chief, Bedford County Fire and Rescue Department (20 plus years)  -Emergency Management Director, (Bedford County, VA) - Flight Paramedic - Paramedic Instructor - Fire Investigator   -Jack has completed the FEMA Emergency Management Institute Advanced Professional Series (APS) and is a graduate of the U.S. Fire Administration/National Fire Academy Executive Fire Officer Program (EFO) and the War College of the American Fire Service   -Jack is a credentialed Chief Medical Officer (CMO) designee, he holds a Master's Degree in Public Health and International Relations   -Jack is currently an Occupational Health & Safety Specialist with the Virginia Department of Health.   Contact Information https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-w-jones-jr-efo-bs-ma-a442b6292/

Dr. Jacquie Cotton from the National Centre for Farmer Health, Australia, and Dr John McNamara, Health & Safety Specialist, Teagasc, joined Pat Murphy, Head of Teagasc's Environment Knowledge Transfer, on the latest podcast version of the Signpost Series to discuss, ‘Promoting farmer health and safety for sustainability in Australia & Ireland'. A questions and answers session took place at the end of the webinar which was facilitated by Teagasc's, Francis Blythe.          To register for future webinars visit: https://www.teagasc.ie/corporate-events/sustainable-agriculture-webinars/        For more podcasts from the Signpost Series go to: https://www.teagasc.ie/signpostpodcast/ 

It is truly a sad fact, but every church needs to have ongoing training for their children's ministry workers in order to keep their most vulnerable members...their children...safe from predators. In this episode, Curt Hale, from Shelter and Shield, is a Safety Specialist. This organization helps congregations learn what to look for when it comes to the safety of children. Curt offers timely tips and advice to both pastors and lay workers, all aimed at keeping abusers away from our children.

Tobias ‘Toby' Gilk joins Out of the Gray to share his experience in MR safety and offers insights into how facilities might work to create the safest possible environment for staff and patients alike.

Carol Davis reports that motorcycle fans in Europe are getting an important edge on safety. Soundbite from Helmut Schartel, Safety Specialist, USAG Wiesbaden and LTC Randy Boltz, Program Manager,USACE. Available in High Definition.

D2 is at Fremont High School located in the western part of Weber County in Plain City, Utah. And looking at the map, Fremont is about a mile and a half away from the Weber River, which is at incredibly high levels already from the Uintah Mountains. Plain City Mayor Jon Beesley joins the show to talk about how they're prepared for these floods and give advice for other cities that haven't been hit yet. Lane Findlay, Safety Specialist for the Weber School District, discusses how the school is preparing for floods.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On today's episode we are going to talk about one of the most important topics in kids ministry: safety. We'll address questions like: How do we protect the kids of our church? What kind of policies do we need to have in place? How do we keep those policies up to date? We have an expert and consultant who helps churches make sure that their children are safe. Curt Hale is a Safety Specialist with over twenty years of experience in family ministry. During that time he has served in small, large, and multi-site churches. He's also spoken and led worship for thousands of kids and adults as a camp and event leader. He's married to Noël and has four children: Monroe, Abram, Sophie, and Lottie. Curt knows how to build safety systems in a variety of contexts and he's excited to help you protect those entrusted to your care. SHOW NOTES

In this podcast we are joined by Serena Horkan, Senior Quality and Safety Specialist at HCI and Abbey Farrelly, Quality and Safety Specialist at HCI. In the podcast Serena and Abbey offer guidance on what home support services should consider when implementing a quality and safety management system in their service. They discuss areas such as governance, developing processes and structures, internal auditing and the ongoing oversight and monitoring of the service. They also touch upon the Draft National Standards for Home Support Services and highlight some of the challenges facing homecare organisations at the minute.

In this episode, Stacey is joined by Michael Circle of Onward Energy, a power generator with a portfolio of solar, wind, and gas generation projects in the U.S. Michael, who is both an Environmental Health and Safety Specialist and a PR Specialist, and Stacey explore the following in this episode: * Michael initially decided to become a safety professional because he heard that safety was “lucrative.” But after he attended his first-ever OSHA class, he fell in love with safety. * How even when we're dealing with extremely serious topics — such as fall protection and electrical safety hazards — those of us in the safety profession can still find these topics exciting. * Looking at safety as a combination of various other trades, including law, medicine, and enforcement. * Michael's dad lost a finger in a word accident. * What excites Michael most about the safety profession today, which includes implementing the relatively ​​new 24-foot rule for fixed ladders and ladder protection systems. Thanks to our guest! Connect with Michael on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-shane-circle/ Learn more about Onward Energy: https://www.onwardenergy.com/ Sospes was built to allow employees to connect in safer, more productive workplaces. Learn more about Sospes: https://sospes.com/ Subscribe to the Sospes YouTube channel (where we also post podcasts): https://bit.ly/SospesYouTube Connect with Sospes: * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sospes/ * Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SospesInc * Twitter: https://twitter.com/sospesinc Subscribe to the podcast: * Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3rTi6rQ * Spotify: https://spoti.fi/33muFSS * Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/Safety-Pro-Round-Table-Google-Podcasts Connect with Stacey Godbold on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stacey-godbold-57057313/ This episode was produced by Story On Media & Marketing: https://www.successwithstories.com.

Teagasc Health & Safety Specialist, Francis Bligh, joins Ciarán Carroll on the latest Pig Edge podcast to discuss tips and advice for health and safety on-farm as well as improving indications for the latest trends. Podcast SurveyIn order to understand the aspects of podcasts which are most appealing and beneficial to you the listener, it would be appreciated if you could take 3-4 minutes to complete the following survey to give your feedback:  https://forms.office.com/r/mDZTE9zPy4 For more episodes and information from the Pig Edge podcast go to: https://www.teagasc.ie/animals/pigs/the-pig-edge-podcast/   Produced on behalf of Teagasc by LastCastMedia.com

Six people were shot at Sojournor Truth Independent Study high school in East Oakland on Wednesday, September 28th. As of this reporting, two of the victims are reportedly in critical condition at Highland Hospital, and the other four are in stable condition. When intense violence happens in our neighborhoods, we can't just pass it by. Yesterday, 6 people were shot at an East Oakland high school campus. Our guest in this episode is Jose Garcia, the Safety Specialist at Rudsdale High School and the program manager of the newcomer success and safety initiative there. Rudsdale shares a campus with Sojournor Truth school, where the shooting took place. —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post School shooting in Oakland w/ school safety specialist Jose Garcia appeared first on KPFA.

In this podcast we are speak with Patricia Fernandes, Director of Quality and Safety at HCI and Killian Byrne, Quality and Safety Specialist at HCI. Patricia and Killian discuss some of the common medication errors that can occur in healthcare settings and offer some best practice guidance to support Medication Safety.

Cecilia is currently working on her masters in Occupational Safety and Health and actively working as a Safety Specialist for Batson-Cook since 2020, though she's been with the company since early 2019. She is always open to professional and educational opportunities in her field. She is passionate about innovation towards human behavior to comprehensively reduce risk, mitigate hazards and promote production. There is no goal for zero, but there is always a goal for better. You can blame, or you can learn but you cannot do both, and she will always choose to learn.To learn more about our Risk Management department, click here --> https://ibcins.biz/risk-management/

Corrie Summers, TasRail Senior Safety Specialist

Three people were killed and a fourth critically injured when lightning struck a tree they were standing under last week in Washington D.C. Fatalities from lightning strikes don't happen often – sometimes up to two dozen people a year are killed and multiple fatalities are even more rare. Scientists say there could be more lightning strikes as the climate changes. Chris Vagasky, Meteorologist, Lightning Data and Safety Specialist, National Lightning Safety Council.Support WITF: https://www.witf.org/support/give-now/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There are many dangers associated with farming, but most can be avoided through regular prevention methods. One such danger is farm machinery fires. Fires can arise from crop residue, wiring, rodents - you name it. But there are measures farmers can take now to avoid them.  John Shutske is a Farm Health & Safety Specialist with UW-Extension and a Professor in Biological Systems Engineering. He shares what farmers should be doing now, in the off-season, to prevent fires later on down the road. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

John McDonald is an Environmental Health and Safety Specialist for a large contractor company named Amentum. He is a Former West Virginia Coal miner, South Carolina Gold miner, and comes from a long line of gritty blue collar workers. John has a passion for developing and growing the people around him. He also has a demonstrated history of leadership experience, and through his experiences as a mine rescue Captain, he is Skilled in Emergency Rescue Services as well.To learn more about our Risk Management department, click here --> https://ibcins.biz/risk-management/

David Meredith, Research Officer, Teagasc & Francis Bligh, Health and Safety Specialist, Teagasc joined Pat Murphy, Head of Environment Knowledge Transfer Department, Teagasc, on this week's podcast version of the Signpost Series to discuss understanding and supporting social sustainability of farmers and preventing injury and ill health in agriculture. A questions and answers session took place at the end of the webinar, which was facilitated by Noel Meehan, ASSAP Manager, Teagasc. To register for future webinars visit: https://www.teagasc.ie/corporate-events/sustainable-agriculture-webinars/ And for more podcasts from the Signpost Series go to: https://www.teagasc.ie/signpostpodcast/

In this episode we chat with Dr Libby Brook, Principal Psychological Health and Safety Specialist at WorkSafe Victoria. Libby takes us through the Exposure Draft OHS Amendment (Psychological Health) Regulations, providing more context on the objectives, employer duties, control of risk, prevention plans, and complaint reporting. A useful episode for anyone who will be affected by the introduction of these Regulations! https://engage.vic.gov.au/proposed-psychological-health-regulations

In this episode, Clara Acuna talks about the many operations that take place at the Ice Harbor Lock and Dam and reveals some of the unique challenges that the on site rescue team has to be prepared for.Notes:0:55 Introduction5:42 Overview of Ice harbor public services6:57 Overview of fish passage12:51 Overview of the lock system17:40 How do the functions of a hydro electric damn affect the role of safety specialist?26:02 Benefits of doing joint training with local fire department.32:06 Closing thoughtsLinks:Ice Harbor Lock and Dam Website

Glen ‘Cookie' Cook is an International Powerline Safety Specialist / Speaker. He is very passionate advocate for electrical / powerline safety and works closely with workers in the Agricultural, Aviation and Construction industries, speaking face to face of his experiences regarding powerline safety. Cookie is the driving force behind the successful powerline mapping 'look up and live' app. Cookie was the Health and Safety Professional of the year at the Australian Workplace Health and Safety Awards in 2020 and also received a Queensland Community Achievement Award for Safety in 2021. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We begin with an update on a busy start to the New Year at City Hall. From the collapse of the ‘arena deal' to the impact the Omicron Variant is having on staffing levels for public servants, we get the latest from City Hall Reporter for Global News, Adam MacVicar. Calgary and the majority of Alberta remain under an extreme cold warning. For most of us, the bitter cold temperatures are uncomfortable and limit the amount of time we spend outdoors right now...BUT, what if your job requires you to work outside?  We get some tips on how to stay safe and warm while working outdoors from “Occupational Health & Safety” Specialist, Jan Chappel.  Next, it's the 1 year ‘anniversary' of the Capitol Hill insurrection in Washington. We look back at the events that unfolded that historic day and the impact that still resonates today. We speak with Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News. Finally, it was a headline-grabbing story over the weekend, how a Seattle hockey fan ‘spotted' a cancerous mole on the neck of one of the bench-coaches for the Vancouver Canucks, which ultimately saved the coach's life according to doctors. Have you been screened for skin cancer? Our Dave McIvor brings us details on how prevalent these types of cancers are and what we can do to help safeguard ourselves.

In this podcast we are joined by Roisin Rouine, Senior Quality and Safety Specialist at HCI. Roisin shares with us her insights into the Joint Commission International Accreditation Standards for Hospitals, 7th Edition which came into effect on the 1st of January 2021. In our discussion Roisin highlights the changes in the latest edition of the standards, she tells us about the new hybrid JCI survey process and offers valuable insight into preparing for the survey.

Farm Talk Segment 2 - Angie Johnson - NDSU Extension Farm and Ranch Safety Specialist

This week at NSTA: The Bus Stop - Kristin Rosenthal, Highway Safety Specialist, at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), joins NSTA Executive Director, Curt Macysyn to discuss National School Bus Safety Week. Kristin starts out with providing a look into her background, as well as her role at NHTSA. Kristin and Curt then discuss National Pedestrian Safety Month that nowincorporation pupil transportation into it. Finally,Kristin then outlines how NSTA members can get involved in National Pedestrian Safety Month. What you need to know when you need to know it, always at NSTA: The Bus Stop. Subscribe today!Support the show (http://www.yellowbuses.org/membership/)

In this episode, Ted and Barb introduces us to Michael Teague, CSP. He started his journey by being enlisted in the US Air Force in 1983. He then completed his training as an EMT while serving the country. After being discharged, he worked as a paramedic for an ambulance company. Once he retired, he decided to go back to school and earn a degree in Fire Technology and Psychology. He is currently enrolled in the Masters of Psychology degree program while currently working as the Senior Health and Safety specialist at Heavenly Mountain Resort in Lake Tahoe, California. Michael is very passionate about his work and talks about the importance of knowing how to make the right decisions especially in high-risk environments. He gave us some of his insights on the journey and challenges he encountered in his profession as a Safety Specialist.  According to Michael, he became interested in Psychology and Safety when he encountered two significant incidents that almost killed 10 firefighters while working as a Department Safety Officer.  He shared that he was trying to figure out why certain decisions were made. He wanted to figure out all the different ways that we make mistakes during a decision making. He also shared that making decisions is part of our daily lives and it's part of the safety realm that we should be looking at because it really does affect us every day. Resources: https://www.healthandsafetynow.com/ (Total Health & Safety Solutions) https://safetyfm.com/ (Safety FM) Michael Teague on https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelteagueff/ (LinkedIn)

October 19, 2021 — As the difference between safety and security in the Jackson Demonstration State Forest is parsed with utmost refinement, one thing remains clear: the logging sites are dangerous. Two activists have complained of significant threats, one of them caught on video. EPIC, the Environmental Protection and Information Center, has sent a letter to Wade Crowfoot, the California Secretary of Natural Resources, asking him to restore peace. And, although Cal Fire's chief legal counsel Bruce Crane wrote on July 2nd that “The current JDSF closure order prohibits any private security, armed or unarmed, from entering JDSF,” two unarmed private security firms have been present in two sites. One was hired by a private company, while the other was paid upwards of $110,000 by Cal Fire for just over a month's work. Cal Fire, the Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention, manages JDSF, where protests against logging have been vigorous. Mendocino Forest Products, the sister company to Mendocino Redwood Company, purchased the contract to log Soda Gulch. They hired Two Brothers Logging to fall trees and Lear Asset Management for safety. In a press release, Mendocino Redwood Company described the contractors as “licensed and bonded Safety Specialists…(who) are simply filming and alerting trespassers to the active operations.” Lear is a private security company best known for armed raids on trespass grows. John Andersen, the public policy director for MRC, confirmed that the company had hired Lear as a safety contractor, but said Trouette and his staff are not carrying weapons on JDSF. Kevin Conway, the Cal Fire forest manager in JDSF, said safety managers are permitted on logging sites, but did not lay out the parameters of their duties, other than to specify that they must be unarmed. The presence of the safety manager, or the Safety Specialist, did not rule out the possibility of a non-accidental death, according to one unidentified logger in Soda Gulch on October 5th. Michael Hunter, the Chairman of the Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians, described the encounter to KZYX and shared the video of the incident. Hunter said that as he stood near the loggers, “I recorded everything. I said hey. Please don't kill me by accident today. And the old man says, oh, it won't be by accident. I got that on recording, too, and I said, well, don't kill by purpose either, please, ‘cause I don't feel like dying today.” Last week, Matt Simmons, a lawyer with EPIC, wrote in his letter to Secretary Crowfoot that on the same day, U'i Wesley, an activist and Native Hawaiian singer and dancer, had a separate encounter. She was parked by a logging gate when two masked men pulled up in a large black truck with no license plates. “They didn't say who they were, they didn't say we're with the police, or we're with Cal Fire. They just came up to her and said, you need to leave. And when she said that she wouldn't, they responded by reaching into their pocket and throwing bullet casings at her face and saying, you know, it's dangerous in here. And I think any reasonable person would feel that that was a death threat.” Reflecting on the fact that both recipients of the threats were people of color, Simmons said, “The really sad truth is that Mendocino, just like all of America, has been a place of violence against people of color for a really long time. And Jackson itself is Northern Pomo and Coast Yuki territory. And there's a reason it's not anymore, right? It's because of violent acquisition by white settlers. And in some ways, it feels like we're just sort of seeing a continuation of that.” In a video he posted on Facebook, Hunter had a long verbal encounter with a man later identified as Paul Trouette, the head of Lear Asset Management. Simmons was skeptical about what he called a loophole allowing Trouette, a professional private security provider, to operate as a safety manager or Safety Specialist, in an area where private security is not allowed. “Now what it looks like is that MRC has hired Trouette and are calling him a safety manager in order to have a loophole in the rules that require them not to hire private security. I did a little bit of googling on Paul Trouette, and I don't think he's the guy you hire to be a safety manager.” Recently obtained documents show that Cal Fire itself hired a private security firm called Armorous to provide unarmed guards and a patrol car around the clock at the Caspar logging site from June 8th through July 5th. Payments for two guards overnight and three during the day came out to almost $111,000. Conway said that their presence did not violate the agency's chief legal counsel's opinion that “CAL FIRE cannot cede control of activities on JDSF, for law enforcement and security purposes, to any person or entity at any time as JDSF is required...to always be under the direction and control of CAL FIRE personnel.” Conway pointed out that this statement was part of a letter to the owner of a logging company who wanted to hire private security to protect his logging operations. In contrast, Armorous was hired by Cal Fire and was acting under control of the agency as what he called a “force extender.” He also emphasized that the guards were not acting in a law enforcement capacity. He said they wore uniforms and did not carry weapons, and that their vehicle was marked. He said at the moment, there are no plans to bring the guards back into JDSF. Usually, he said, the public respects forest closures, and the current situation, where some portion of the public wants to put themselves and workers in harm's way, is very new territory for the agency. He urged those who object to the logging to use the public process to express themselves.

Abigail Gwyn is currently a Trust and Safety Specialist at Google. Before arriving at Google, Gwyn finished her degree in Neuroscience and Psychology. In this episode, she shares WHY she decided to switch her career and explain her passion for bettering mental health after working at a suicide prevention center. Tune in~ ------------------- ANDWHY. is a multi-media platform to share people's dreams and to inspire people to dream. In our podcast, we are providing motivating episodes to help people tackle their lives' obstacles that prevent them from following their dreams. We also share people's stories to help similar-minded people connect with one another and to find inspiration in their stories. *If you'd like to donate to this podcast, please follow the link at the end* ------------------ Gwyn's Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/agwyn/ ------------------- Follow our Instagram for updates: https://www.instagram.com/andwhymedia/ Check out our website: https://andwhymedia.com/ The host, Annie's, personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anniexjl/ ------------------ Here are links to credit: Sam Kim - producer of podcast jingle - https://soundcloud.com/samksongs Sydney Lee - illustrator of the previous podcast cover art - https://www.instagram.com/sglstudios/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/annie-law/support

Corrie Summers, Senior Safety Specialist for TasRail

In 2019 the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported there were 190,000 slip and fall events that resulted in time away from work.  60% of those were falls on the same surface.  Any surface is the interface with our shoes and together they provide stability for our base of support while moving. The surface composition and condition are key to the efficiency of our movements.    A stable surface compatible with the work being done is a good place to start when trying to prevent Slip and Fall events. On this episode of the MEMIC Safety Experts Podcast, I speak with Patrick Dooley, CSP and Senior Environmental Health and Safety Specialist for LL Bean.  We are going to get under the surface of slip and fall injuries and discuss how understanding your surfaces can help reduce slip and fall events.   Peter Koch: [00:00:04] Hello, listeners, and welcome to the MEMIC Safety Experts podcast, I'm your host, Peter Koch. I expect many of you listening out there have had the chance to walk on the beach. Well right now I want you to think back. What was it like? Was it Rocky where the rocks big or the little pebbles? Was the sand hard or was it really loose the surface move underneath your feet when you walked when we expected a surface like soft beach sand or the gravel around where the surf breaks can be just what we want. But when that surface changes to something we aren't expecting, it can cause us to stumble or at the very least break stride. Think about it. So when our foot or shoe interacts unexpectedly with the surface, our base of support changes as our foot, knee or hip moves farther to the side or four and a half feet. So when we're walking or working, most of the time our base of support is our feet. So right now, if you can [00:01:00] safely do it, stop and put your feet about shoulder width or maybe just a little wider and then steady yourself and keeping both feet on the ground, shift your weight from one side to the other side and then back again should feel pretty stable, balanced. Even if you shift your weight pretty far to one side, you're still going to feel pretty balanced as long as your feet are going to be on the floor. Peter Koch: [00:01:23] When you move side to side, I want you to think about how far your center of gravity and that's right around where your belly button or your belt buckle is, how far that moves from side to side before you might feel like you're going to tip over. So depending on how far apart your feet are, your center of gravity can move quite a bit from that center position. You can move it almost all the way to the outside of that foot, to the side that you're standing on now. And again, only if you can safely do it, move your feet closer together with your toes or your shoes touching or maybe almost touching. Now shift your weight from side [00:02:00] to side again. And do you feel the difference? You should even see the difference in how far your center of gravity moves before you feel unstable, because the closer your feet are, the smaller that base of support is. We fall when our center of gravity moves outside of our base of support. The larger or faster the movement and the smaller our base of support is, the more likely we are to fall. It's just physics. You really can't get around it. And we take for granted the surfaces that we walk on during the day. That's really neither good nor bad. It just is like you're going to walk across the tile floor in the bathroom or you're going to walk across the rug in your home, or you're going to walk across the concrete at work and you take it for granted. Peter Koch: [00:02:45] However, the surface is an important piece. It's the interface with our shoes. And together that surface in our shoes provide a platform of stability for our base of support while we walk, move, lift, reach, roll or whatever [00:03:00] motion or ambulation that we're engaged in at the time. That surfaces composition and condition are key to the efficiency of our movement. So it's reasonable to think that a stable surface compatible with the work being done is a good place to start when you're trying to prevent slip and fall events. But how do you know what that surface is? How do you know how stable it is? How do you know how slip resistant it is? And unless you're fortunate enough to have built a custom facility, most of us have inherited the surface that came with the building. And even if you did build a new facility, some of the walking working surfaces may have been specked out by the architect and not the safety engineer. They may look good, but they're not compatible with the work, meaning that they don't have enough inherent friction to keep you from slipping or too much and may cause you to stumble. This is where a thorough surface or floor care and maintenance program really comes into play. So understanding all the components that go into [00:04:00] keeping us upright when we're walking and working around the business. Peter Koch: [00:04:04] And there's a lot that goes into one of those programs. And I don't know if you're like me. When I first started out, I was thinking, I don't need one of those. Our floors are just fine. And then if you look back at some of your statistics, it might show a different story. And if you look at it nationally and the Bureau of Labor Statistics has some stats that should make you look down at the floor a little more closely, because in 2019, BLS reported that there were more than 190,000 slip trip fall events that involve days away from work, and 60 percent of those were events that were a fall to the same level. So not a fall from a height, like a ladder or a vehicle, but a slip and fall on the same surface. So gaining insights to where to start and the pitfalls that you might look out for are key no matter what you're doing, if you're just starting out to create your own slip and fall program or if you're really evaluating an existing program [00:05:00] for your company. So that said on the podcast. With me today is Patrick Dooley, CSP, and senior environmental health and safety specialist with L.L. Bean. And we're going to get under the surface of slip and fall events and what steps L.L. Bean has taken to manage the surfaces its staff work on at their facilities. So, Patrick, welcome to the podcast today. Patrick Dooley: [00:05:21] Well, thank you very much, Peter. Happy to join. Peter Koch: [00:05:24] That's great. And, you know, you and I and a couple of others from MEMIC, we ended up doing a podcast, not a podcast, but a webinar a few weeks back on Slip and Falls and talking a little bit about Libyan's experience managing slip and falls at their store. So I wanted to have you on and just maybe take a little deeper dive into some of the things that you did, what you learned from your experiences, some of the challenges that you ran into and what maybe some actions that you took. So I'm hoping that we can get into some of those conversations today as we move forward. Patrick Dooley: [00:05:58] Absolutely. Peter Koch: [00:06:00] Before [00:06:00] we jump into the bean’s plan or process, tell us a little bit about your background. So what got you started in safety and how long have you been in the field? And maybe how long have you been at L.L. Bean? Patrick Dooley: [00:06:12] Well, thank you. So as of right now, I am lucky enough to be in the field of safety for the last 20 years, have a degree in safety studies from Keene State College. And I've been lucky enough to be with L.L. Bean the last 14 years. Peter Koch: [00:06:29] That's pretty awesome. And Keene State's got a pretty long history of having of putting out quite a few really good safety professionals with their safety studies programs out there. So were you able to jump right from Keene State to beans, or did you have a couple of places that you stopped in between? Patrick Dooley: [00:06:49] So in between the year 2001 and leading up to L.L. Bean, I was able to hold a couple of different positions within safety included lead in asbestos abatement [00:07:00] and consulting, as well as working for a temporary agency and doing safety for all of their temp hires and working with actually MEMIC to help with our lost control. And then I was fortunate enough to land a job with L.L. Bean, and I've been there ever since. And the best part about L.L. Bean is that it's not singularly focused into just the retail division. We have a manufacturing division, we have our fulfillment centers, we have our facilities. So it's a lot more expansive than what people might think of LLB. Peter Koch: [00:07:37] Yeah, it's not just a store. And, you know, we were talking before the podcast. Neither you nor I are native to Maine. We're actually both native to Connecticut and then moved to Maine for our wives, which is kind of cool. And, you know, I had known of L.L. Bean while I was there in Connecticut and had come to Maine and actually shopped at the flagship store. But I had no [00:08:00] idea the extensive facilities that L.L. Bean has between, you know, research and design and manufacturing and then shipping storage besides the retail facilities. So that's pretty, interesting. You get but you get to see a lot of interesting things just within the L.L. Bean ecosystem. Patrick Dooley: [00:08:21] So the L.L. Bean as a whole, when you look at it with all the different divisions that we have from a safety perspective, you're able to apply all the knowledge you've learned over the years and gain knowledge as you go along. It kind of opens the doors for a lot of folks. It's eye opening. Most folks in our profession get kind of siloed into manufacturing or transportation or construction. And, you know, here at the L.L. Bean, we've been afforded the opportunity as safety professionals to explore all of those avenues. And it's been great. Peter Koch: [00:08:58] You even have I mean, even [00:09:00] at the retail store, you even have hospitality. So you have there's a little food outlet there, a restaurant that you have at the flagship store. People wouldn't think of that either. So when you explore L.L. Bean from a safety perspective, it's like almost working in a little city because you have all these different nooks and crannies that have different needs. And then you have the connection with the public. So it's not just workplace safety, as you might have in manufacturing or you might have in an office building or someplace else. But you have a pretty strong connection with the public that you're going to have guests and staff encountering different exposures together. Even so, you're planning on both sides, which from my perspective, I always think that there is a definite overlap between what you might do for guest safety and what you're going to do for workplace safety. There's a definite overlap there. Patrick Dooley: [00:09:56] And I would even extend it even further to guests, to [00:10:00] the community, because majority of the. Places where we reside throughout the country right now. We expand our offerings into the community from our outdoors discovery programs, so things are available to folks and it's not just the branding thing, but we want people to be outside and be in the outdoors. They're not just our guests, we are actually the guests to the outdoors. Right. I mean, that's the whole point. But how we do it and how we make people be safe and do things is I mean, that's what we've been very successful in, even through this whole pandemic. Peter Koch: [00:10:33] So that's pretty cool. And not just all of the different facilities that you have, that do different things. But you have locations across the country as well, which is something that didn't exist back in the 70s. Right. It's you've expanded across the United States. So you have 54 locations or something like that across the United States. Patrick Dooley: [00:10:56] Now we're across 19 different states [00:11:00] and there is roughly 54 locations with soon to be a couple more opening this year. But within this past year, those 54 locations in 19 states offered up many different challenges throughout the pandemic, as anyone could imagine. Peter Koch: [00:11:18] So I'm sure they have. And in all those different states, there are you know, there's different like you said before, there's different cultures that you have to work through and within there's different facilities, challenges. There's different perceptions from the public that you might have to manage as you go through there. All of these things kind of fit into that overall safety puzzle. And I would imagine, like one of the common things that you have for exposures across all of the different facilities and no matter what they do is slip and falls or slip and falls. So slip and fall exposures, how different are they across the different facilities and how different are they maybe [00:12:00] in different states or maybe in the different areas that you would have work going on, whether it be a public facing or outdoor center or manufacturing and warehousing? Patrick Dooley: [00:12:13] Yeah, I mean, if you look at it from a retail standpoint, I'll start with that is we are in those 19 different states. So what is the environment that we're in? You know, where we're not in sunny Florida where we may get a little bit of rain. We're in Park City, Utah. We're going to go for the big end of town that's known people their ski and we're in the Adirondacks and in New York. Same thing. Hopefully it's snow season and the rain events and everything else that comes along with New England. So a lot of the things that go into planning and engineering and thinking about how we build out our stores, slips trips and falls have to be kind of in the forefront, not just from our customers, not for our employees. It's things [00:13:00] that we need to think about. And those are things that maybe when we're building out these stores 10 years ago, we didn't have so much forward thinking. But now as we're, you know, 10 years later, we're trying to figure it out and say, oh, you know, we need to look at more of what's the impact to not only the customer or the employee, but sustainability to floor care and maintenance programs. What does that all look like? Peter Koch: [00:13:30] Yeah, it's all one big puzzle, really. And if you just, I remember in some of my past experiences or other working with clients at MEMIC or working outside of MEMIC before I came to MEMIC thinking about the flooring or the surfaces that you're going to have people walking and working around. It sometimes started with the idea of what's it going to look like? And we never really talked about how are we going to maintain it, what [00:14:00] type of footwear is going to be on it, how much traction is going to be there? Basically, they figured, well, we're going to put it in and then if we have to replace it, we’ll replace it in 10 years. But frankly and historically, those products, especially in those high traffic areas, never lasted the time that they expected to because of either increased traffic levels or, you know, I can tell you, you talked about Park City, Utah. I was the question that rolled through my head, when you're saying that was I wonder if you got anybody in ski boots walking through one of those stores. And I think from a slip trip and fall standpoint, ski boot on any surface is one of the most difficult things to try to figure out, because there isn't really anything that's going to be great, because you can find something that works for the ski boot, but then it's near impossible to keep it clean. Patrick Dooley: [00:14:52] For sure and one of the things that architecturally what was looked at when stores are being built, not just L.L. Bean, but other places [00:15:00] is. Does it look how does it feel? Is it on Brand in what ended up happening from. And from our standpoint is we were having like four or five different floor textures within one building. So now your floor care and maintenance program becomes a little bit crazy and the costs are a little bit different because you're vacuuming one space, you're mopping in another and you're dry mopping in another. So it just adds to a lot of the confusion. And like you said, it's, you know, depending on the area your in, that may not be the way to go. So 2021, let's revisit that and see how we can make improvements on that. Not only impacts our employees, but the general public that comes in to visit L.L. Bean. Peter Koch: [00:15:46] Sure. So we're going to talk about the refurbishment program that you guys went through and specifically about some of the flooring. But I think it's worthwhile talking a little bit about some of the challenges with slip and fall prevention and [00:16:00] kind of how they affect the big picture. I think some of the big ones are in and you alluded to this in our webinar, perception is one of those things. Visibility is another. And then surface traction. I think those three are pretty sizable. And we can address some of those as we go. So let's really start with surface traction and what it is. And why is low traction a problem? Patrick Dooley: [00:16:26] I think it is an easy question to answer. But at the same token, it isn't because it's one of these things that people don't see. Right. It's invisible. So problems with these surfaces cause what the majority of the slip trips and falls for the most part, if we see a puddle on the floor or something that looks slick or, you know, gum or leaves or whatever, we can kind of focus on that. Right. But if we're not wearing proper footwear, you're not going to get the right amount of traction. [00:17:00] And the amount of traction depends on what kind of flooring you have. So if you go see not only attraction's really invisible, but it also isn't immediately obvious how to quantify and tell when to do something about it. So how much water makes it so slippery or, you know, is it the snow and ice on the sidewalk? It's slippery or, you know, is it snow melt or calcium chloride that we're putting outside and tracking? And that makes it slippery. So there's so many different environmental factors that can come in that can give you this low traction effect. But then there's this underlying thing of what's our perception of slippery? Your perception is going to be different than mine. You know, a perception of someone at a younger age, a toddler. Their perception is that we're going to be way different than someone who is probably a little bit older. So where [00:18:00] they may walk fast, someone may walk slower. So perception is kind of this undefined thing when it comes to slips trips and falls and how to figure out what it's not slippery and what is slippery. Peter Koch: [00:18:12] And I think that's a really good point. And it's perception is one of those things that you really it's hard to control outside of yourself. Like one of the first things that people do to help prevent slip and fall injuries are to put signs up. We're going to put a sign up and help make people aware. You've all seen the yellow wet floor signs or maintenance in progress or something sign. And they're fairly ubiquitous. I can't tell you. Well, before all the travel restrictions happens, you know, you walk through the airport and guaranteed if you're walking through early in the morning, you're going to see a number of those along the walkways. And after a while, you don't even see him anymore. So, like, they're not even they don't even create additional perception. [00:19:00] You just see them as part of the background. You might not even process it. So that's one of the challenges with perception. But the other challenge, too, is like it's all it's different. You said what might be slippery to you or hazardous to you and your perception is going to be different for me, my perception of what the hazard is and then it changes what you do with it for sure. Patrick Dooley: [00:19:20] Right? I mean, we all have unique gates. Our strides are all different. Our footwear choices are all different. Now, the type of shoe that you wear that we have an on our footwear all adds into what can be slippery and what isn't slippery because you and I could be wearing the same shoe. But your shoe could be six months older than mine. But I'm sticking to the floor and know you're falling on your behind. It's very different. Peter Koch: [00:19:47] So and if I'm taken if I'm taking a six or eight inch longer stride than you are in our legs or the same length. So there's a different amount of force placed on the heel and the sole to generate [00:20:00] friction when it lands. So. It's a there's so many different things that go into that to drive perception, and they're all a lot of them are habits. I mean, we're many of us don't put on shoes in the morning in order to prevent a slip and fall unless, of course, you're going out into a hazardous environment. And then you might put, you know, ice cleats on or micro spikes or something. That is going to be a traction enhancer for a pair of shoes that you're going to have. But typically, when you get up in the morning, go to work, you put on the shoes that either match the outfit or they're going to be comfortable for what you're going to do or required for what you're going to do that day. Patrick Dooley: [00:20:40] Right. And I think that from an employee standpoint, because you're in the same workspace day in and day out, you recognize those areas that can be slippery or not slippery. And so you can adjust the footwear that you're going to wear or you're recommended the footwear. So [00:21:00] if I'm a line cook in a restaurant, I know that it's going to be slippery back there. So I'm going to wear footwear that translates to that environment, similar to the fact that if I'm outside shoveling in the middle of winter in ice and snow, I'm going to wear footwear to that effect. But if I'm shopping inside of a store, for the most part, it's fair game. You don't know what people are going to wear and come in and come out from. So from a general liability standpoint, we can't anticipate what their perception is going to be of a floor and whatnot. We can coach our employees. We can do certain things to lower the risk, but the general public is open to us so they can come in and they're at the risk of the environment that they're in. Right. Peter Koch: [00:21:46] Flip flops to steel toes, really, I'm sure you've seen it all come through the door. Patrick Dooley: [00:21:52] Absolutely. Peter Koch: [00:21:53] So perception exacerbates the problem of low friction. If you have a flooring or a surface, whether [00:22:00] it be inside or outside, that could be generally slippery. But your perception and how you see that surface can change how you interact with it. What other factors play into reducing the traction on a floor. Patrick Dooley: [00:22:17] So let's think about the kind of the five biggest things that you see for a slip trip and fall events. Right. It's slip resistance on walking surfaces. So we've talked a little bit about that. The walking surface conditions, visibility is another one poor condition of either handrails or guardrails that are in the area. And the accessibility can be a major factor, too. So is it too crowded? There's too many things going on for us to be like fixtures? Let's think about having fixtures in aisles and you're offering up an area where people are aware of their surroundings and can slip trip or fall or something. So [00:23:00] I think those are probably the five biggest things that we would look at in order to kind of reduce the risk of a slip trip fall. Peter Koch: [00:23:09] And when we start to look at those different factors, a lot of it's going to come down to what the flooring is at its base. Like what material, what's the composition of that particular floor that you're on? And then what? What are you going to do with it? And that's the fixtures. That's the maintenance. That's the way it's going to be used. The number of people that are going to be on it. All of those things contribute to it. But there's a base slip, resistance or traction that flooring is going to have when it comes from the manufacturer. So if we start there, because again, let's start at the base and let's really get down to the nitty gritty of this whole thing. How do you know how slippery a floor actually is even before [00:24:00] you start putting things on top of it and people on top of it? Patrick Dooley: [00:24:03] Right. So fortunately, we're lucky enough, right. There's there is some sort of scientific method that we can apply to looking at the coefficient of friction, which is objective. Now, the standards on coefficient of friction are all over the place for flooring, but there is a threshold that people can use or benchmark against that says that is your floor more slippery or less slippery. So OSHA doesn't define it. The National Flooring Institute, they have their own standard, but you can benchmark it. So when you're buying something off the shelf from, let's say, Home Depot and you're buying tile and you're putting in your bathroom, there is a COF coefficient of friction label on it that says this meets blah blah blah. From our standpoint, we would bring in someone like MEMIC to sample the floor. So we do try Bomaderry. Right. So basically it is science of measuring friction. So we're going to use [00:25:00] a device. And in this particular one, we're using a binary tribometer or output tribometer that measures the coefficient of friction, the floor sideways, frontwards, backwards, wet, dry. And he gives us an idea of where we're at and what risk measures do we need to take to lower the risk of a slip and fall inside the workplace? Or is the flooring in to match the environment we're putting it in? So obviously, if we're putting flooring in Freeport, Maine may be different than what we put in Virginia. Virginia is not going to have snow and they're going to have snow melt. They're not going to have, I should say, that could knock on wood after this year. Anything can happen. But, you know, generally speaking, they're floor conditions. They look different than what we're going to have in Freeport. So let's define that and let's come to a conclusion of what's happening to the environment, basically is what it is. Peter Koch: [00:25:56] Yeah. So how do you understand first understanding of the environment [00:26:00] and then getting some information about the floor and how those two things would match up and compare to each other? Because certainly, you know, like you talked about like in a food service standpoint, a hard, hard core tile with a real polished surface isn't going to be great if you're going to get grease on it from your fryolator. Not a great combination. And that same combination wouldn't be great to have, say, in Freeport, where you're going to have outside, where you're going to have snow and sand because it's going to wear really poorly and wet shoes. Wet slick shoes on that surface is going to be crazy slippery. Patrick Dooley: [00:26:43] Absolutely. And also, what is the location? What do you where you're at? So it's easy for us because it's our campus. It's our store. But outside of Freeport, you know, we're leasing spaces inside of malls. And, you know, we may be just a pass through. [00:27:00] Into the mall. So, you know that the parking is convenient. So people are walking in and out. So what happens is that they're dragging stuff in and out of the store. So we need now what we didn't know then is to match the flooring to the traffic that's going to happen inside of the store, Peter Koch: [00:27:19] Traffic patterns and volume are especially for your situation it was pretty critical as you started to look at what do we use when we start when we get into that refurbishment project? I also think that that's a pretty important thing to think about, no matter where you are. I mean, traffic patterns, whether you're in a doctor's office, hospitality situation, manufacturing, I don't think it really matters. Even a grocery store traffic patterns are a big deal because depending on where they're coming from, like you said, you think about a grocery store, if you're coming from the butcher area or you're coming from the back of the house space where we're [00:28:00] storing things or you're coming from front of the house as people are walking in through the entryway, how much what's the possibility of having a contaminant on the bottom of your shoe that you're dragging in? And how do you treat for that? How do you plan for that? How do you manage that? And there's some definitely some strategies there. Sure. Patrick Dooley: [00:28:19] Right. And then the interrogation of the surface. So obviously the middle of your walkways inside of a store or a building or what have you are going to have less traffic than your main entrances. So do you have a specific plan for now resurfacing those? Peter Koch: [00:28:37] So I guess this is a good time to sort of jump into the refurbishment project as you started to look at your facilities. It was time to replace some flooring and to refurbish some of those facilities that needed to have needed it. So when you started to do that, I know we had talked about before that you had used tribometry to learn [00:29:00] what the coefficient of friction was about some of those surfaces. Talk to me a little bit about the refurbishment project that you did and then what part sampling the surfaces, either before or after played to you making decisions about flooring. Patrick Dooley: [00:29:16] So when we kicked this off, let's say, three years ago, the question came up from our store operations, the facilities, teams that we hate. We're thinking about getting rid of all this different floor textures and going with a singular floor texture inside of our stores. What impact would that have on not only the general public, but on our employees? And that posed a great question for us. How do we gauge that? How do we figure that out? Luckily enough for us, at the time we had this great big expansive space that was getting ready to be refurbished that allowed us to take some concrete and [00:30:00] create sample areas. So the goal was to come up with a concrete surface for the store the goal on top of that was to have our floor care and maintenance program. The cost reduce it would look clean it would be singular. But in order to get to that point, how do we know it's not just safe? Because I don't think safe's a good word to use. But I mean, is it slippery? Does it work? Can we drag fixtures across of it? Does it need to be mopped? Do we need to use a machine so we are able to create this space and use four different textures? And we partner with MEMIC and said, hey, bring your tribometer here, to L.L. Bean, let's do some testing. We're going to wear it on the floor. We're going to make it where we're going to make it dirty. Patrick Dooley: [00:30:53] So that way it's not like you're getting a fresh floor when you come in and it gives us a little bit of wear patterns and such. Take the readings and then [00:31:00] from the readings, we will determine what would be the best option to replace in the flooring that we currently have in our stores. And with that, we came to the conclusion, let's use a flooring that has some texture in it, has a urethane finish. It'll look nice. It’ll look uniform and has a high coefficient of friction. Little did we know that the environment dictated kind of what would happen in the future for one of our stores. But for the most part, it was the right decision. And if you look at major retailers right now, you look at your Wal-Mart, you look at your Hannaford's, you look at Shaws, and they're all going to this rough surfaced concrete slab. And really, it's because your floor care and maintenance programs are really less than what they would have to be if you had tile. The agent deterioration factors kind of go down. You don't have to have as much floor care repairs than you have now. And aesthetically, it actually looks good, removed four textures from the floor. [00:32:00] You know, for us, you go from a wood floor to a carpet to a court floor to a carpet in our demographics for our customers. Unfortunately, that created more of a hazard than anything else. Peter Koch: [00:32:16] Let's take a quick break. Safe for S.A.F.E is an acronym for many different things. But when talking about slip and fall events, Safe represents the four areas that you can focus on at your facility to prevent slips and falls, surface awareness, footwear and environment. Look at the surface as it relates to its composition, condition, changes and contamination. Evaluate how your facility layout and pace of work may affect the awareness of your staff to slip and trip hazards. What is your footwear policy and how is that compatible with the type of work and the surfaces at your facility? And last, how [00:33:00] does the lighting and weather in and around the work environment compound or create slip and trip hazards? If you're interested in learning more about how to prevent slip and fall events at your workplace, check out the resources at www.MEMIC.com/workplace safety. Or if you're a policy holder with MEMIC, you can sign into the MEMIC safety director and find more resources there. Now let's get back to today's episode. Yeah, that kind of ticks into that whole perception and visibility, too, like if I'm on one type of surface and it has a lot of traction to it and I'm not really understanding what the next surface is going to bring, I might know that it's not there or it's going to be different, like going from carpet to cork because it's fairly easy to see that difference. But you have no idea how it's going to react under foot. So they might continue their gait the same way and [00:34:00] their feet might still be wet from tracking in from the outside. And all of a sudden it's a slightly different coefficient of friction and down they go at end. Lighting must play some difference in that to being able to see changes in elevation, changes in surface texture that might cause someone with a low gait, more of a shuffling gait to maybe even trip on some of those higher traction surfaces or maybe uneven like cobbled surfaces. Patrick Dooley: [00:34:28] So the majority of our refreshes, not only do we look at the flooring, but all the lighting was changed and all of our fixtures were changed. So we eliminated not only a lot of heavy fixtures, but also our stores were a lot more adequately lit than they were in the past. I can't tell you what the foot candles were, but I can tell you that it made the product look a lot better. Peter Koch: [00:34:57] It's kind of amazing how something small like that, you know, [00:35:00] you might even change something for a product, get the product to look better, increase the lighting so you can see better. But visibility makes a huge difference and slips and falls. When you can see the surface. It helps you with your perception. It helps you with understanding the exposure, especially in those crowded areas. Some of the things that we talk to our clients about, too, is as you go through your facility, some of the areas that you should pay a lot of attention to are those low-lit areas where your employees are going to be like your trash handling spaces, the back of the house spaces that typically aren't as well-lit as some of the front of the house spaces. Those are always areas. If you go back and look at what your trends are or your injury or your near miss trends, you're going to find that they're going to happen in those spaces just because you can't really see what's on the floor. Patrick Dooley: [00:35:51] And those are the areas that we tend to lose focus on, right? They're not selling areas for us. So Backhouse is a good [00:36:00] example. Your employee entrance. No employees enter from the front door, right? It's always the back door. The back door has one little light, usually on top of it. You know, lighting is a is a big factor in what we do. Peter Koch: [00:36:12] Yeah, yeah. And you have some complex needs because you are you're not only trying to develop flooring that's going to help you reduce the overall maintenance and replacement costs. But it had to look good. It had to match, I guess, the branding, you could say, for L.L. Bean and had had to draw people into the space and make them feel comfortable. And it needed to be functional not only for traffic walking, but also for moving your fixtures over the floor, too. And I think it's something that we forget. And when you're talking about moving a fixture, what do you, I think I understand what you're talking about. You're moving racks and carts and things across the floor. What else would be considered a fixture [00:37:00] that you might have to plan for Patrick Dooley: [00:37:02] Going from back of the house to the front of house or using dollies are used in pallet jacks or, you know, you're moving over stuff, Xerox, anything that would be product movement. And not just that. There's stuff that we sell that, you know, you have one person that needs that kind of move it along in a customer needs to pick it up or do it. So how can we make it easier for them? One is it is the flooring work for them? Is it going to damage the product as they’re dragging it across? Is it going to damage the texture as they're dragging it across? So is it going to be agent deterioration factor on that? So I think there's a lot of different things to think about. And you could probably go way down a rabbit hole on that. But, you know, in general, what's going to work best for that environment and how do you how do you figure it out? And I think we've only done a really good spot, because if I look at my employee injuries that have occurred over the last ten years, you [00:38:00] know, there was a significant push pull was a big one. Patrick Dooley: [00:38:05] You know, they're moving fixtures around. We did floor set changes monthly, which is crazy, right? I mean, did you force that change? It's massive. So now we've gone to quarterly and that has made a significant difference in how we handle product, how we move product, you know, tag product change, all of it. It just has a little trickledown effect. Our store injuries have. Gone from pretty significant to pretty insignificant over the last. So if we look at I did 13 years, my 14 years over the last three, we've seen a dramatic dip in retail store injuries. And a lot of it has come from our process changes our front of house changes, flooring, fixtures, lighting mannequins, handling mannequins, you know, bringing them upstairs, downstairs, dragging them across floors, [00:39:00] all that stuff. So it's had a huge impact. So people think I'm making a floor change or I'm making a fixture change. It may seem very insignificant, but if you look in the long, broader lens to it, it really does have a huge impact. It has a huge impact on how people play with the landscape of what their store looks like or what their environment is. Peter Koch: [00:39:23] And those changes prevent exposures. But it also allows you to do more like when you when you have good flooring, good lighting, good changes, good processes in place. It allows you from a retail perspective to have your associates interacting with your guests, which is going to be a huge part of the experience when they come to L.L. Bean or they come to any retail establishment like you don't want your staff always focused on how am I moving all this stuff around and what's going to happen if it's a complex process or a big deal. You want them interacting and then when they're not interacting, then they can start to move different things. It's just part [00:40:00] of that. So some of these changes can, like you said, have far, far reaching effects. But there is a lot that goes into it. Did you have a team of people that worked together to make these floor changes or decide on the floor changes? Or was it kind of just you and your notebook? Patrick Dooley: [00:40:18] No, absolutely no. We had we had to definitely have a team. So in the past, it was more of a facility planning and operations lens on what the store is going to look like and how we're going to interact. And aesthetically, was the approach right. Let's make the store beautiful and have that environment. When you walk in, you're like, oh, wow, this is L.L. Bean. Now, 20 years later, like no we want it to be shoppable. We want it to be yes, we do want it to look nice, but we want our customers to interact. We want our employees to be able to interact. We want to do in a safe manner. And, you know, is it functional? Is it flooring? [00:41:00] Does the fixtures, is it all meet what we're trying to do here and is it on Brand? And I think we have achieved that. And I will say, you know, we're having a store opening here in May and it's probably going to be one of the probably one of the nicest stores that I've seen. And it's going to have all these different components that we're talking about today wrapped up into it, which is going to be great to see. Peter Koch: [00:41:23] Yeah, that's really cool to kind of see it all happen in one particular space and then start from scratch and see how they kind of move going forward. That's pretty cool. So when you when you were making these changes going through and I know it's a process of understanding, installing, observing, making some more changes. Was there anything unexpected that you found when you were when you were testing flooring or after you installed some flooring that you hadn't expected? Patrick Dooley: [00:41:59] Yeah, [00:42:00] I think, you know, there are unknowns. I mean, you try to do as best you can to replicate situations and environments when you do sample areas inside of what we tried to do. But then when you get it into the actual environment, they're going to be putting it in. There are certain unknowns. They're going to happen. There's obviously external environmental factors that are out of control. A good example is, you know, one of our stores in upstate New York, they're using a different type of snowmelt. So we typically use salt and sand mixtures. They were using a calcium chloride based product that was being trapped in through the store. And this store was a pass through into a mall. So, you know, a lot of our traffic isn't even shopping. They're going into the mall. They're dragging the calcium chloride in. So the further and further they're bringing it in to more slip trips and falls that we were having from not only customers, but from employees. Because now remember, back to the perception thing, employees [00:43:00] already knew where the hot spots were. Right. But as these as this calcium chloride is being tracked to the store, those hotspots changed. And so this particular store, which usually only has a handful of slips trips and falls a year, we had upwards of 50 within two months. And it was something that we didn't plan for. Now, we had the same flooring in some in two other stores earlier in the year, but. You know, winter came and we found out that maybe this flooring wasn't the best, so we had to go back and kind of think about, all right, why is this happening? Do we know what some of the root causes are of it? And what do we do to kind of fix it? And luckily for us, within a short time frame, we're able to come to a lot of big conclusions and pivot to, [00:44:00] you know, getting a new floor care and maintenance program in place because we knew that the machine that was there wasn't working properly. Patrick Dooley: [00:44:07] We knew that the landlord was using a different product on the sidewalks that was being tracked into the store. So, you know, we worked with the landlord to change that product. So that way the calcium chloride was, you know, the problem with calcium chloride that sticks to these surfaces. And it's a it's a real pain to clean. And actually, it broke the machine that was supposed to clean the floor. So we asked the landlord to go to a different product for the store. We also found our floor mats are terrible in this particular store. So a water hog mat, which is something that we sell, is wonderful from a household standpoint. But from a commercial standpoint, maybe not the best product to use in a store that has a very large traffic volume. So we changed out our floor mats. This particular store, you would walk in and you would see the yellow floor. What signs up and down the aisles. [00:45:00] Now you walk in the store and you don't see them anymore because we did make those changes. Patrick Dooley: [00:45:04] The floor care maintenance program is way more robust. The matting program is now included in that floor maintenance program, which it wasn't in the past. The changes were made to the salting and sanding and calcium chloride outside the stratification inside of the vestibule was turned up. So that way and you're getting it was drying as you're walking in instead of staying white all the time. So those are things that you don't really necessarily think about when you're sitting inside of a box sampling flooring. Right. You have all these wonderful ideas of what you want that's going to be and how you're going to work with it. But then, you know, you don't know what someone's bringing in. You don't know if, you know, that site had recently been paved. So if it had been recently paved and it's wet, you're dragging all those oils into the store, which would cause a similar effect to what calcium chloride had done. So while it may be temporary, you're still going to scratch your head and figure out why am I having all these trips [00:46:00] and falls? So there's a lot of unknowns that happen with this. You can only focus on the things that you can focus on when you're trying to make a decision like this. But, you know, I think is always going to be that little level of uncertainty that you have to have. And that's the risk that you need to be either willing to accept or not accept. Peter Koch: [00:46:25] Yeah, I don't think there's any perfect solution for slips, trips and falls, except, you know, maybe carting people everywhere they go, pushing them around. But that, you know, creates other hazards, other places that you bring up some interesting problems that you wouldn't find unless you're doing one or two things, one, paying attention to your injury trends or near miss trends. Right. So what are people reporting? What's going on? And are you seeing clustering happening in a particular location, whether you have one [00:47:00] facility or multiple facilities? And then the other part would be paying attention to the surface in the maintenance process itself? Because, you know, how did you find out that the floor care machine was gummed up and not working as well? How long had it been there in that condition or how long had someone been using it in that condition thinking that they were cleaning the floor when it really wasn't working as well as it should have? Well, it starts smoking on you and blows up in one spot. They're typically gradual, like they're going to work really well. And then over time, it's going to be a reduction in the quality that for the surface that the machine leaves afterwards. And unless you're really paying attention, you're not going to see it. So I think there's a value in checklists and like, what are you paying attention to locally? And then your position kind of globally, overseeing safety for multiple areas is checking in on those spaces and seeing what's really happening [00:48:00] on the ground. And those are always going to be great indications that something's either working or something might not be working for you. Patrick Dooley: [00:48:08] Yeah, the biggest thing is really, you know, from an employer standpoint is to really encourage employees to report stuff. So the earlier that you report something, you know, the more data you're going to have. So we talk about what leading and lagging indicators, right. So lagging indicator. Someone's already fallen. Someone's gotten hurt. But the leading indicator as well, someone slipped there yesterday, but they got hurt today, but it wasn't reported yesterday, so we couldn't we didn't have the opportunity to take a look at that and fix it, you know, or what's the trend look like inside of a different store or stores that have similar flooring, similar fixtures. You know, what's the trend look like? How can we match those apples and apples and apples to oranges and figure out, you know, do [00:49:00] we need to pivot and make a change in how each fixture or the flooring in a different store? So, yeah, I think data is just absolutely necessary. Stuff doesn't get lost in data. If you're tracking the right things, you're going to be able to get ahead of a lot of different risks then you would have if you've didn’t, because you I think we've all heard it and especially with some of your policyholders and I've seen it in some of our buildings. Well, that spots been slippery for 10, 15 years. Right. Well, why don't you tell me for 10, 15 years ago, I would have fixed it and want to be slippery anymore. But yet over those 10, 15 years, how many different people have crossed that spot and had a little bit of a slip without a fall?  But all it takes is that one person to have a catastrophic incident. And everyone says, well, I knew about it 15 years ago so. Peter Koch: [00:49:57] And then you scratch your head and why didn’t you tell me, why don't you tell [00:50:00] me? And I think that's a whole other podcast. Like, why don't people say something? That's a whole other topic. But it's really important. And that culture of employees being able to have a conversation with the safety guy or gal or the supervisor or the manager about some of those things is really important. Like you said, it's critical and then not forgoing that information, like following up on that information, because I would expect that this is my experience, because I've had that same thing happen to me where you go to someplace, you're investigating a big slip trip and fall injury that happened and you talk to the employees and they say the same thing. Oh, yeah, it's been like that forever. Well, how come you didn't say anything? Patrick Dooley: [00:50:45] Absolutely. And the thing is, like as a safety professional, I think one of the biggest misconceptions that people have, especially if you look at people from an employee perspective, a safety professional isn't just a [00:51:00] pocket protector and a clipboard. You know, we're there to really help and do things and have the conversations and learn about your job. And we're excited to learn about your job. Right. So if there's challenges in flooring, if there's challenges in your how you do your work, well, we just want to know about that so that it's not nothing that's negative. It's all positive. And that's kind of the environment we live in now. But 10, 15 years ago, I don't think the safety professionals kind of looked like they were clipboards and pocket protector people and telling people no, whereas now we're like, no, but the risk of doing it is this. And the risk of not doing it is that. So there's a nice conversation that happens. And that's kind of how we landed on, you know, some of the different things that we've done inside of our store reverbs. It was a conversation that just didn't happen. So now those conversations do happen. And I think we all land [00:52:00] in a great spot and we have less things to do. And in the end run, Peter Koch: [00:52:03] That's pretty cool. So we're coming towards the end of the podcast here. Do you have any recommendations for companies or maybe a safety person at a company that's looking to do some refurbishment, that's looking to do some floor replacement or maybe even creating their own floor care and maintenance plan? Any recommendations? Patrick Dooley: [00:52:26] Yeah, I have a few. I mean, if we're looking at specifically with flooring, so know your environment. Right. So select flooring materials that that match that environment. So when you build and expand remodel facilities, make sure this little resistance meets that environment, know what the out of box stuff is. So if you're purchasing something at a Home Depot, it may not be the best thing you may have to really look at the literature that comes along with it specifications and say, is this the best flooring? Make sure your floor care and maintenance programs are up to speed. Make sure whatever you're using matches [00:53:00] the flooring material that is laid. So even mopping is great, but some flooring and says don't mop with detergents and cleaning products. It could just be water and rinse off and or people think floor care machinery you're cleaning, it's meant to clean. It doesn't need that. Machinery does not need to be cleaned. Right. So there is a preventative maintenance program for that piece of machinery. So make sure that's up to speed. Yeah. You use a dirty old mop, you put in dirty old water back on the dirty old floor, right? Peter Koch: [00:53:35] And you know, that's a topic we didn't even get into today and which has its own nuances. The cleaning the floor itself. And you alluded to a little bit with the calcium chloride, but the product that you choose, how you apply the product, how it interacts with the floor, there are some subtleties there that not everybody knows. And, you know that old rule of thumb, that more is better is not always where [00:54:00] you want to go when you're trying to clean your floor. Patrick Dooley: [00:54:02] Yeah, right. I mean, a bottle of old English is not going to work on a tile floor, right? Peter Koch: [00:54:06] No, not at all. Patrick Dooley: [00:54:08] I mean, you really have to match the cleaning product to the flooring and what's coming in. So, you know, the calcium chloride. It's a tough thing to clean. So you want to make sure you're matching the cleaning product to what the environment is, as long as it matches, as long as the manufacturer's recommendations are match as well. The other couple of things would be like make sure your MAP program is part of your floor care maintenance program. So that would include like any of your runners. And I would also expand even further to like if you have rugs in the facility, you take a look at your rugs. Is the age of deterioration of certain areas of your rugs pretty sorry? So do they need to be replaced? Do they need to be repaired? Those are things to think about. And maybe is that the right product for that type of area when you go to replace it? And then, you know, I think we just touched upon it regularly [00:55:00] review your incident reports, you know, what is happening, what are the trends? Are there things that are happening that you can't anticipate? Encourage near miss reporting? Get that leading indicator in there. Make your employees report those near misses. It may seem laborious at first because I think what ends up happening is we encourage all this leading indicator stuff and you get a ton of reports. But they're significant. They're significant to the person reporting it. So let's pay attention to it and chart it and map it and put the data to it. And then finally, from a floor care maintenance program and an employee thing, make sure folks are trained in just cleaning up spills like a from our standpoint, we have a retail store. We don't have a janitorial staff on site all the time. So they're trained in how to clean up spills, make sure that if you do have [00:56:00] a custodial staff that they're trained and respond to spills appropriately. I think those probably would hit the big beats. Peter Koch: [00:56:09] Yeah, I think so, too. And that last point is very interesting. You know, you would think that cleaning up a spill is a skill set that everyone should have. I mean, all of us here. And if you're not raising your hand, you're lying. All of us here have spilled something. Doesn't matter if it's a glass of milk, glass of water, whatever, that something has spilled and you've cleaned it up at home. Great. But in the workplace, you might not be dealing with it. Like how many of us have actually spilled something, maybe off the stove that's a little greasy and you're using an off the shelf cleaner to clean that up? And how many of us have gone back to that spot? And it's still a little greasy. It's not as clean as it should be because we might not have used the right cleaner. We hadn't had the skill set or the training. [00:57:00] So making sure that your staff, who aren't your custodial staff, have some understanding of what they should be using to clean up the potential things that they're going to encounter when they're in their workplace. And then your custodial staff needs to have another whole level of training so that they can deal with anything that comes in and understanding the products and understanding the process, understanding the potential risks of using this the wrong way. Understanding limitations, I think is huge. Patrick Dooley: [00:57:28] Right. And use and use things like the yellow, floors wet signs everywhere. Right. But if they're not used appropriately, it can actually create a hazard. Right. Because now you have people that are anticipating perceive a slip, trip or fall and there isn't. So they've changed their gait, they change their stride and now they're actually tripping. Because they're their perception is changed. So, you know, making sure that things that you do [00:58:00] are in line with the environment, what they need to be doing it use them appropriately. And I guess that's the key. Peter Koch: [00:58:07] One last thing I kind of want to end on here, and you said it as the second to last thing of the recommendations, reporting those near misses and especially for slips and falls. That's huge. So, you know, you've got the ability to map things. Everyone has it. If you're working in a space, you have a facility. And even if you can't draw, you can still draw a box with a couple of places where things are in your facility, so you think about all that data that you have, sorry, do you encourage people to talk about their near misses? And in a month, out of the 10 employees that you have, you have 50 near misses, one that should tell you that there's a problem inherent there. But two, what are you going to do with all that data? Well, you might not have to respond to everyone individually at first, but maybe take that data and at least put those near misses on the map and then see where they cluster. And that can open your eyes [00:59:00] to, hey, maybe we need to look more in that area, because out of those fifty twenty-seven of those reports were in this particular area. So then you can look at what's your floor care process there? What's the flooring there, what does it look like, what's the condition, what's the kind, what are the changes all of those parts for then you as the owner of the business, if you're a small company or if you have a safety person, maybe they can be the person that goes to do a little more investigating so that that mapping process as a hugely powerful tool with those lagging indicators and in even the leading indicators. So you flip it around and start looking at the hazards that are out there in your facilities, inspection and mapping those. Patrick Dooley: [00:59:41] And just communicating back to the person that did report it. So you have to because you want to make sure that you encourage the effort to put that in and you want them to do it again. Even if it's insignificant. But that's just a data point that you have and you could utilize [01:00:00] in the future. And, you know, I tell folks all the time, I encourage them to report anything. You know, I'd rather see my email flooded. Then no have one email at all. Peter Koch: [01:00:13] Because, you know, if you get one email, it's going to be that email. Patrick Dooley: [01:00:18] Right. And, you know, and if someone took the time to report it, it's an important it's important enough to them that I should respond and make sure that they know that we're going to work on we're going to take a look at it, that it's not just a data point. That is something that we encourage. And, you know, it leads into other things in the long run. Peter Koch: [01:00:39] Yeah, encouraging that communication, Patrick Dooley: [01:00:42] Leading indicators are just huge. And I think, you know, majority of safety professionals and in the environments we work in that we don't see enough of them. They're hard to judge. They're hard to go by. But they play a huge role in how you determine how [01:01:00] we lower risk in certain different areas and different areas of our business. So, yeah, Peter Koch: [01:01:05] And it's that one cool thing. You know, if you think about all the rest of the measurements that we have in business and most of the measurements we have in business are lagging indicators. It's the measurement of your income versus outflow for the monetary side of your business. How many employees do you have this month versus last month? Most of those are lagging because you're looking at a report of something that happened historically where the leading indicators are its information right now. It's that dashboard of real time information that it's enormously helpful from a safety standpoint because there's a human factor about it. Like to be able to respond in kind in time with something that's coming from another person is huge for your culture. Patrick Dooley: [01:01:56] Yeah. I mean, literally, the lagging indicators are the last thing that a safety person [01:02:00] wants to talk about. The Debbie Downer of a meeting. Right. I mean, you're going into a meeting and you're talking about things that have already happened, the cost to the company. You know, the things that happened to me, G.L standpoint, comp standpoint. I don't want to talk about it. I want to talk about. No, here's the things that we've done that we reported ahead of time. And these are the things that we fixed. So that way we're not injuring someone or we're not having an incident with a vehicle or PPT like this is what's happening because we're able to have these leading indicators. And I'm not standing here and talking about, you know, someone being injured because someone didn’t, you know, take the grease off the floor. Peter Koch: [01:02:37] So that's cool. And all about kind of understanding the surface. I mean, that's what we started with today is, you know, talking about slips and falls. And there's lots of things that go into the puzzle of preventing slip and fall events. But really, where to start is understanding your service, how people interact with it, what goes on it, how it's cleaned, your maintenance program, all that stuff. Understanding the surface really gives you the best [01:03:00] idea of how to manage the other things that go towards preventing slips and falls. So that's pretty cool. And really, we've now hit the end of the podcast here today. And I really appreciate you spending some time with us, Patrick, and sharing your expertise and your experience with us. So thank you for that. Patrick Dooley: [01:03:19] I thank you for having me. And this has been great. And now I look forward to working with MEMIC and some of your policyholder's in the future. Peter Koch: [01:03:28] Yeah, I hope so. That'll be great. We will have you on again, and there's you know, like we talked about at the beginning, L.L. Bean is multifaceted when it comes to the different industries or the different safety aspects that are involved with L.L. Bean. So I'm sure we'll have you on again. Maybe we can talk fall protection or we can talk personal protective equipment or something else would be kind of cool to have a chat about. Patrick Dooley: [01:03:50] Awesome. I look forward to it, Peter. Peter Koch: [01:03:52] Very good. Well, thanks again for joining us. And to all of our listeners out there, appreciate your listening today. Today on the MEMIC Safety Experts podcast, [01:04:00] we've been speaking about slip and fall prevention with Patrick Dooley, CSP and senior environmental health and safety specialist with L.L. Bean. If you have any questions or I'd like to hear more about a particular topic on our podcast, e-mail me at podcast@MEMIC.com. Also, check out our show notes at MEMIC.com/podcast, where you can find additional resources, links to other podcasts, as well as the entire podcast archive. And while you're there, sign up for our Safety Net blog so you never miss any of our articles or safety news updates. 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Preston DeMarco Lewis, Sr. is the Founder & CEO of 16th Century Rum Distillers, LLC – the proud producers of Don D'Marco Rum™. 16th Century Rum Distillers stakes their roots back to the 1500s and the traditional Dominican Republic way of distilling and producing rum. “I am on a mission to produce an ultra-premium rum using ‘old school' traditional methods the way Dominican Republic Rum was meant to be made.” “As the Founder, I am focused and dedicated to making the Don D'Marco Rum™ experience an authentic, sexy, and ultra-smooth for your enjoyment.” Prior to creating 16th Century Rum Distillers, LLC, Preston, a disabled United States Navy Veteran, focused his attention as a Safety Specialist ensuring the well-being of hardworking men and women. Having this experience has provided Preston with an attention to detail that has translated artistically into the nuances of the many flavor profiles in the rum spectrum. “Patience is key when fermenting sugar cane with the right yeast and then distilling it at the right time – all to get the precise flavor profile we are targeting.” Don D'Marco Rum™ Distilled and Aged to Perfection. *** Website: www.dondmarcorum.com Facebook: @DonDMarcoRum Twitter: @dondmarcorum Instagram: @dondmarcorum About the show: ► Website: http://www.ashsaidit.com ► Need Goli Gummies? https://go.goli.com/1loveash5 ► For $5 in ride credit, download the Lyft app using my referral link: https://www.lyft.com/ici/ASH584216 ►For discount Pangea Products: https://embracepangaea.grsm.io/ashsaiditmedia3226 ► Want the ‘coldest' water? https://thecoldestwater.com/?ref=ashleybrown12 ► Become A Podcast Legend: http://ashsaidit.podcastersmastery.zaxaa.com/s/6543767021305 ► Review Us: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ash-said-it/id1144197789 ► SUBSCRIBE HERE: http://www.youtube.com/c/AshSaidItSuwanee ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1loveash ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ashsaidit ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/1loveAsh ► Blog: http://www.ashsaidit.com/blog ► Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/1LoveAsh/ ► Newsletter: manage1.com/subscribe?u=2a2ca3b799467f125b53863http://ashsaidit.us11.list-c8&id=a6f43cd472 #atlanta #ashsaidit #ashsaidthat #ashblogsit #ashsaidit® Ash Brown is a gifted American producer, blogger, speaker, media personality and event emcee. The blog on AshSaidit.com showcases exclusive event invites, product reviews and so much more. Her motivational podcast "Ash Said It Daily" is available on major media platforms such as iTunes, iHeart Radio & Google Play. This program has over half a million streams worldwide. She uses these mediums to motivate & encourage her audience in the most powerful way. She keeps it real!

Preston DeMarco Lewis, Sr. is the Founder & CEO of 16th Century Rum Distillers, LLC – the proud producers of Don D'Marco Rum™. 16th Century Rum Distillers stakes their roots back to the 1500s and the traditional Dominican Republic way of distilling and producing rum. “I am on a mission to produce an ultra-premium rum using ‘old school' traditional methods the way Dominican Republic Rum was meant to be made.” “As the Founder, I am focused and dedicated to making the Don D'Marco Rum™ experience an authentic, sexy, and ultra-smooth for your enjoyment.” Prior to creating 16th Century Rum Distillers, LLC, Preston, a disabled United States Navy Veteran, focused his attention as a Safety Specialist ensuring the well-being of hardworking men and women. Having this experience has provided Preston with an attention to detail that has translated artistically into the nuances of the many flavor profiles in the rum spectrum. “Patience is key when fermenting sugar cane with the right yeast and then distilling it at the right time – all to get the precise flavor profile we are targeting.” Don D'Marco Rum™ Distilled and Aged to Perfection. *** Website: www.dondmarcorum.com Facebook: @DonDMarcoRum Twitter: @dondmarcorum Instagram: @dondmarcorum About the show: ► Website: http://www.ashsaidit.com ► Need Goli Gummies? https://go.goli.com/1loveash5 ► For $5 in ride credit, download the Lyft app using my referral link: https://www.lyft.com/ici/ASH584216 ►For discount Pangea Products: https://embracepangaea.grsm.io/ashsaiditmedia3226 ► Want the ‘coldest' water? https://thecoldestwater.com/?ref=ashleybrown12 ► Become A Podcast Legend: http://ashsaidit.podcastersmastery.zaxaa.com/s/6543767021305 ► Review Us: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ash-said-it/id1144197789 ► SUBSCRIBE HERE: http://www.youtube.com/c/AshSaidItSuwanee ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1loveash ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ashsaidit ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/1loveAsh ► Blog: http://www.ashsaidit.com/blog ► Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/1LoveAsh/ ► Newsletter: manage1.com/subscribe?u=2a2ca3b799467f125b53863http://ashsaidit.us11.list-c8&id=a6f43cd472 #atlanta #ashsaidit #ashsaidthat #ashblogsit #ashsaidit® Ash Brown is a gifted American producer, blogger, speaker, media personality and event emcee. The blog on AshSaidit.com showcases exclusive event invites, product reviews and so much more. Her motivational podcast "Ash Said It Daily" is available on major media platforms such as iTunes, iHeart Radio & Google Play. This program has over half a million streams worldwide. She uses these mediums to motivate & encourage her audience in the most powerful way. She keeps it real!

On this episode Ted and Barb talk to Brandy Bossle. Brandy Bossle started her career off as an Industrial Hygienist. She moved from that role to an Environmental, Health, and Safety Specialist for AVX Corporation. Last year, she transitioned to AVX's Corporate Environmental and Safety Manager for over 14,000 employees. She has her Certified Safety Professional Certification and her Associate Safety Professional Certification. In 2020, Brandy won 1st place in the SPOTY Awards or Safety Professional of the Year Award from J.J Keller. Brandy has been volunteering in professional safety and environmental organizations for a few years now. She currently volunteers with the Air and Waste Management Association as a Director on the Board of the South Atlantic States Section and the American Society of Safety Professionals in the Piedmont Chapter in South Carolina as Vice President. Brandy shares about her career, the value of volunteering in ASSP, different aspects of working in private sector and consulting, as well as a site EHS specialist and management. She also shares how she won 1st place for the JJ Keller SPOTY award. According to Brandy, volunteering with a professional organization has many benefits from networking, making friends and connections with the same mindset as you, and meeting EHS professionals with expertise in a particular topic and experience you might not have. Resources: https://www.healthandsafetynow.com Brandy on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandy-bossle-csp-asp-csd-a029016a/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandy-bossle-csp-asp-csd-a029016a/) Brandy on Twitter and Instagram: https://twitter.com/safetybran (https://twitter.com/safetybran) Instagram: @SafetyBran

Hear some highlights from two of SHP's recent Webinar Wednesdays series.  First up, Alastair Davey, Global Vice President HSE at Sodexo, Malcolm Staves, Corporate Health & Safety Director at L'Oréal, Luiz Montenegro, Former VP Group Health & Safety at Carlsberg Group and Steve Hough, President at SoloProtect UK & EU focus on leadership and whether it differs from safety leadership. The panel explain how to create leaders within teams and look at the future of the OSH profession and its leaders. To listen back to this leadership webinar in full, https://www.shponline.co.uk/webinar-2/webinar-wednesdays-is-there-a-difference-between-leadership-and-safety-leadership/ (click here). Then, we revisit a session on safety culture with Professor Tim Marsh, Chartered Psychologist and MD of Anker & Marsh, Dr Karen McDonnell, OHS Policy Adviser at RoSPA, Kevin Gilroy, Environmental Health and Safety Specialist at Kevin Gilroy Creative Culture Change, formerly EHS Manager at Avery Dennison and Scott Gaddis, VP, Global Practice Leader, EHS at Intelex Technologies. The panel look at the safety culture challenges that come with large, multi-national organisations, discuss how to change an organisation's safety culture and provide some tips for influencing at board level, in order to implement changes to safety culture; To listen back to this safety culture webinar in full, https://www.shponline.co.uk/webinar-2/webinar-safety-culture-2/ (click here). To listen back, on-demand, to any other SHP webinars, or to sign up for upcoming live sessions, https://www.shponline.co.uk/shp-webinar-wednesdays/?cid=nav (click here). If you've not already subscribed, please do so, to get the latest episodes as soon as they are released. And, if you like what you hear, we'd be grateful if you could rate us, as that will help us get the shows out to a wider audience. Check out the previous six episodes on the https://www.shponline.co.uk/the-safety-and-health-podcast/ (Safety & Health Podcast hub). Please be sure to stay tuned in to https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/CyFQC73nA5ImGBn68F2zbPX?domain=shponline.co.uk/ (SHPonline.co.uk) for the very latest health and safety news, where you can also sign up to our daily e-newsletter.

When a disaster strikes, most people run as far away from the "danger zone" as possible. Journalists, however, do the opposite. They run towards the disaster, led by fearless determination and the hope of capturing an exclusive story.So, how do journalists stay safe while chasing a story that exposes them to danger? How do reporters know how to spot a potential risk before it poses a real threat? And how do leading news organisations protect their staff on assignment?Join former news producer and Director of HP Risk Management, Colin Pereira, as he shares the role media safety specialists play in exercising the due diligence that helps keep journalists safe while they're on the job.Because it doesn't matter if you're a journalist reporting from an international warzone or a domestic hospital ward, assessing risks and challenges is all part of chasing a good story.WHILE YOU'RE HERE...Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to NAVIGATE via https://worldtravelprotection.com/podcast/ now.Want to know more about travel security and risk assistance? Visit https://worldtravelprotection.com today.CREDITSHost: Ben Cooper, World Travel Protection Head of Business Development – EMEAGuest: Colin Pereira, Director HP Risk Management

Mark Hernandez is one of the country’s foremost Leadership Speakers, Trainers, and Coaches. He helps organizations and individuals multiply in Purpose and Performance. Mark spent nearly 12 years as a Compliance Assistance Specialist with OSHA and a Safety Specialist for Marathon Petroleum Corporation for the past 6 years. Mark is a John Maxwell certified Coach, Speaker, and Trainer. Learn how he is changing organizational culture one person at a time through his Mark Speaks motivational programs and Crushing It!

Episode 191: This is a live recording of our Virtual Safety Council meeting on Thursday, November 12, 2020. The topic was Ladder Safety for Work and the Holidays, and it was presented by Dave Dennison, Safety Specialist at Flaherty Sales (Werner Co). For more information about the Portage County Safety Council, please visit our website today! Sponsored by UH Portage Medical Center.

Francis Bligh, Health and Safety Specialist at Teagasc, joins Emma-Louise Coffey on this week's Dairy Edge podcast to discuss health and safety on the farm workplace. Francis documents the source of farm accidents on Irish farms with dairy farms accounting for the greatest proportion of accidents. He explains that it is a legal requirement of farms to have a Risk Assessment (less than three staff members) or a Safety Statement (more than three staff members) for the farm. Completing this document and reviewing it regularly will investigate all aspects of the dairy farm and ensure that any potential hazards are highlighted and addressed. Considering farmer health and stress management, Francis recommends that farmers speak to and support each other and use other professionals such as local advisor and GP for advice and support. For more episodes from the Dairy Edge podcast visit the show page at: https://www.teagasc.ie/animals/dairy/the-dairy-edge-podcast/

Jim Finn speaks to - James Mullane from Teagasc talks about new dairy entrants' experiences to date. Thomas Duffy National President of Macra talks Macra and COVID 19 and also on their pre-budget submission. Dr.John McNamara Health and Safety Specialist with Teagasc talk about a paper published by Teagasc on Safety in a COVID world. Anlnan Dunne talks cycling in rural Ireland.

Charissa Sims received her Master's from the #1 Occupational Therapy Graduate Therapy school in the nation, the University of Southern California (USC). After she received her Masters from USC, she began working as an Environmental Health and Safety Specialist for the University of California, Los Angeles. https://www.linkedin.com/in/charissashaw/

In a two part conversation, Colin talks to flight safety expert, Adam Johns, who with over a decade of experience in commercial aviation industry, has marked himself out as one of the world's foremost specialists in people safety. In this second instalment, Colin and Adam discuss a more collective approach to problem solving, and why the aviation industry may be in need of a complete reboot when it comes to safety regulations. KEY TAKEAWAYS Aviation is an industry classed as high risk, and therefore it comes with a more restrictive and severe set of regulations when it comes to safety. Accidents were more proliferate to begin with, so this is not surprising. Policy can longer be built around aviation, based upon the concerns and failings of the past hundred years of its history. It has now reached a point where it is a uniformly safe industry, and requires new thinking. Safety failings in aviation are made more dramatic by the way they are presented in the media. It has forced the industry's safety to grow faster than any other. We learn how to prevent, and how to consider the needs of people, not just by focusing on what went wrong, but what goes right. BEST MOMENTS ‘Regulations on the safety side were developed as a result of accidents' ‘Imagery and metaphor is incredibly powerful' ‘We've had to grow up fast' 'There is an opportunity here to take stock of safety in our business' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449   Adam Johns LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjohns730/ Adam Johns at Safety Differently - https://safetydifferently.com/contributors/ ABOUT THE HOST Colin Nottage ‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.' This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions. He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation. Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses. Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive. He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In a two part conversation, Colin talks to flight safety expert, Adam Johns, who with over a decade of experience in commercial aviation industry, has marked himself out as one of the world's foremost specialists in people safety. In this first part, Adam talks about the effects of lockdown upon the aviation industry, how to ensure that skills are not eroded over time, and how appearing as a safety coach my prove far more effective to your workforce. KEY TAKEAWAYS Lockdown has seen some airlines reduced to around 10% of their normal operations. It will take perhaps 3 to 4 years for the industry to fully recover. To prevent skill-erosion, it's important that airlines endeavour to keep training their staff. Simulators are still used today, and are still effective. There is a large disconnect between the way we think things are being done, and the way they are actually being done. We need to give people credit, but also try to measure more effectively. By acting more in a coach/facilitator capacity, we grant autonomy and encourage others to improve safety and quality. BEST MOMENTS ‘It's aerospace engineering for people who didn't want to do so much maths!' ‘Making sure that planes stay in the sky, but making sure that the people who work on them are safe as well' 'There might have to be a bit of a revolution in how pilot training takes place' ‘Our job is to bring new ideas into organisations' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Interesting Health & Safety Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/vn/podcast/the-interesting-health-safety-podcast/id1467771449   Adam Johns LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjohns730/ Adam Johns at Safety Differently - https://safetydifferently.com/contributors/ ABOUT THE HOST Colin Nottage ‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.' This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions. He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation. Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses. Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive. He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Robert is a graduate of Fordham University, majoring in journalism and film. Robert worked as a Safety Specialist and became familiar with patterns. Robert joined MUFON and became an instructor for MUFON academy and also a member of MUFON SAT Team. This team investigates MUFON most highly secretive cases and the toughest MUFON X File cases. Robert is considered an expert in photo analysis in Orb sightings. The Dylatov pass incident in Russia, the Mexican Fedex plane incident and the incursion into a nuke plant in Texas. All this and more from one of MUFON best on the Project Aries Radio Show.

What's the role of technology in women empowerment? How do pharmaceutical companies ensure that their drugs are safe? Clarissa explains what she does to test the safety of drugs made by pharmaceutical companies. This show is brought to you by Eatlah, Drinklah and Chipslah! Instagram: eatlahjkt

Francis Blight, Teagasc Health and Safety Specialist joined Michael Hennessy on this week's Tillage Edge podcast to discuss machinery safety for young drivers and also other safety areas around the farmyard.  Francis told the Tillage Edge there was no change in legislation regarding young drivers operating larger and faster tractors.  Therefore, there is increased onus on the owner of the machinery to spend time training these young inexperienced drivers before letting them loose on roads.  Francis recommends spending at least a couple of hours with the driver training them to safely operate the machine off the road and further time training them while driving on roads.  Francis highlighted the need for reduced speeds around yards as many injuries and deaths are caused by people getting knocked down in this environment. Francis also touched on other areas where farmers can improve their practice such as workshops.  Keeping these areas tidy reduces trip hazards, plus first aid kits and other safety equipment should be accessible and well maintained at all times.  For more episodes and information from the Tillage Edge podcast go to https://www.teagasc.ie/crops/crops/the-tillage-edge-podcast/ The Tillage Edge is a co-production with LastCastMedia.

This week's episode of NSTA's: The Bus Stop features National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Highway Safety Specialist, Kristin Rosenthal and NSTA Executive Director, Curt Macysyn. Curt and Kristin highlight the driver in-service curriculum NHTSA recently launched and the process in which school bus drivers can enroll in the program. They also review future projects NHTSA is undertaking in the area of pupil transportation, and Kristin describes the differing roles of the National Transportation Safety Board and NHTSA. Catch it all at NSTA: The Bus Stop. Links to more information about the in-service curriculum, and how to enroll are below: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/nsta/67356/School-Bus-Driver-InService-PDF.PDFhttps://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/nsta/67361/How-to-Access-the-School-Bus-Driver-Detailed-Enrollment.pdfhttps://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/nsta/67366/NHTSA-School-Bus-Driver-Curriculum-Enrollment-Instructions.pdfSupport the show (http://www.yellowbuses.org/membership/)

Did you know that there is no evidence to date that people can contract COVID-19 from food? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and registered dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Don Schaffner, Ph.D., food safety specialist and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University, and podcast host (http://foodsafetytalk.com ). Schaffner describes best practices for safe food handling during the corona virus pandemic. He outlines key steps for good handwashing, assesses risk from take-out foods, and discusses how to safely handle groceries and fresh produce. For more information on Food Safety and Covid-19, see the JAMA Patient Page: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2764560

Health and Safety Specialist, John McNamara, joins Emma-Louise Coffey to advise farmers on how to maintain health and wellbeing during the COVID-19 challenge. Firstly, John re-emphasises the importance of following the HSE guidelines including thorough hygiene and social distancing. John explains that incidences on the farm such as vet assistance for a difficult calving may lead to close contact, for which John suggests masks can be worn to minimise risk to COVID-19. He also recommends that farmers should keep in contact with family, friends and other farmers throughout this challenging time, taking advantage of technology on the mobile phone to keep in touch. For anyone who is feeling worried or overwhelmed, John suggests that your GP is the first port of call to discuss your problem. He also advises that for farming issues, Teagasc staff are available to help. For more information:https://www.teagasc.ie/about/our-organisation/covid-19/  For more episodes from the Dairy Edge podcast go to the show page at: https://www.teagasc.ie/animals/dairy/the-dairy-edge-podcast/ 

Did you know that home canning errors can cause serious illness and even death? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and registered dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Elizabeth Andress, Ph.D., food safety specialist with Georgia Cooperative Extension, and professor in the dept. of Foods and Nutrition at the University of GA, Athens. Andress is the Director of the National Center for Home Food Preservation. She discusses the history and importance of “home economics,” as well as how to safely preserve high quality, bountiful harvests, and identify risky food preservation practices. Related website: https://nchfp.uga.edu/

Michelle Sterling, Wellness and Safety Specialist, shares summer safety tips for kids. Learn more about the Children’s Wellness and Safety Center.

Episode 84 is a live recording of our monthly workplace safety luncheon on Jan. 10, 2019. The topic was Ladder Safety and it was presented by Dave Dennison, Safety Specialist at Flaherty Sales (Werner Co). For more information about the Portage County Safety Council, please visit our website today!

Episode 57: Dave Dennison, Safety Specialist at Flaherty Sales (Werner Co), joins us after his presentation at the Northeast Ohio Safety Expo to discuss ladder safety!  For more information about the Portage County Safety Council, please visit our website today!

Emma Ashurst, Senior Occupational Health and Safety Specialist at the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) explains what steps to take when implementing strategies to strengthen the overall mental health of a workplace. From conducting a hazard analysis for mental health, to implementing policies, this episode offers tips to encourage positive mental health. Released: September 28, 2018 File Size: 11.7 MB Length:  12:45 minutes

In this episode, Paige sits with Delfina Govia to discuss her journey in the Oil and Gas Industry from the very beginning as a Roustabout with her father's company to her current role as Partner at Veritas Total Solutions. With over 35 years of  experience in the industry, Delfina's story starts in Venezuela, as a young girl within her family-owned energy services company.  As she dives deep into the challenges of in the oilfield life during that place in time and pieces together how pertinent people are for the industry as a whole, even with today's technology. Reach out to Delfina by e-mail and learn more about Veritas Total Solutions. Bulwark has a Winner! Chris Baldwin, Safety Specialist for Chevron, you're this week's winner! Congratulations and enjoy!   Sign Up and Win! For a chance to win a $200 gift card from The Capital Grille, visit www.bulwark.com/podcast, enter your information every week and listen to see if you're the next to get that steak dinner! On the Road 2017 Travel Sponsors Lee Hect Harrison are the global experts in talent management currently helping over 75% of the Fortune 500 oil and gas companies simplify the complexity of leadership and workforce transformation. Totaland, the World's Most Advanced Field Land Management System: The Landman's Virtual Office. Oil and Gas Global Network Podcasts Oil and Gas Global Network | Oil and Gas This Week Podcast | Oil and Gas HS&E Podcast Engage with Oil and Gas Global Network LinkedIn Group | Facebook Connect with Paige Paige Wilson | LinkedIn | Facebook | Twitter | E-Mail | Oil and Gas Global Network  

Creating a mentally healthy workplace can have positive impacts across an organization. In this podcast episode, Emma Nicolson, Occupational Health and Safety Specialist at the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) explains what mental health in the workplace looks like, and what organizations can do to build a culture that is mentally healthy. Released: January 18, 2017 File Size:  10.3 mb Length:  11:16 minutes ----------------------------------------------------------------- « A Mentally Healthy Workplace » La création d’un milieu de travail psychologiquement sain peut avoir des répercussions positives à l’échelle d’une organisation. Dans ce balado, Emma Nicolson, spécialiste de la santé et de la sécurité au travail au Centre canadien d’hygiène et de sécurité au travail (CCHST), explique ce que signifie la santé mentale au travail, et ce que les organisations peuvent faire pour instaurer une culture psychologiquement saine. Date de diffusion : le 18 janvier, 2017 Taille du fichier:  10.3 mb Durée:  11 :16 min  

RN and Nursing Practice and Safety Specialist for National Nurses United, De Ann McEwen, talks with Nurse Talk Radio about the Registered Nurses Response Network … Recently the Registered Nurses Response Network sent volunteer nurses to help with medical aid at the Standing Rock Site where a protest against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline has been going since January 2016 and has gained significant traction for the past nine months. But why isn’t the mainstream media covering this when the Dakota Access Pipe Line does not lack the potential to be devastating to the environment? Nurses know why and are offering their solidarity and support.

This week we visit with RN and Nursing Practice and Safety Specialist for National Nurses United, De Ann McEwen. De Ann talks about national workplace violence protections for nurses and healthcare workers. Whether or not you are represented by a union, National Nurses United is leading the way to protect all nurses from workplace violence.

Safety Podcast, New Safety, Safety Learning, Human Performance, Safety II, Operational Learning Meet Lincoln Eldridge.  Lincoln is the featured interview on this weeks PreAccident Podcast.  Lincoln is an accomplished Safety Specialist offering an outstanding performance record driving transformation of organizational safety cultures within the resources and energy sectors. Global experience in resource sites across USA, Canada and Australasia, leading and supporting organisations such as BHPBilliton, Rio Tinto, Anglo Coal, Aker Kvaerner, Boeing and Ergon Energy in strategic safety directives, safety performance acceleration and workforce engagement. A consummate leader known for capacity to engage at all levels to produce organisation-wide zero harm commitment. Exceptional research, analytical, and facilitation skills and able to partner with staff from the boardroom to the mine floor. This podcast is sponsored by ULWHS.com

Although EBOLA has all but vanished from the news, it is still not over by any measure. RN DeAnn McEwen, Nursing Practice, Health and Safety Specialist for National Nurses United joins us to talk about current issues and remaining challenges in the fight.

Have you ever wondered how your favorite movie star or TV personality escaped from the burning building with only a bit of soot on their nose, survived a fall from a height taller than an Olympic high diver would ever consider or walked unscathed from the exploding airplane with nary a scratch? Body doubles and expert stunt men and women along with some movie magic keep the stars safe. But what happens when the personality is an animal? Who protects them? Beth Langhorst, a Safety Specialist for the American Humane Association is one of a cadre of dedicated animal welfare advocates that you will find on the set of movies and television productions that take animal safety seriously; productions that proudly display the 'No Animasl Were Harmed' tagline. She will be my guest today and let us in on some of the behind the scenes safeguards for insects to pachyderms. Questions or comments? Email Dr.Cruz at: thepetdoctor@petliferadio.com. More details on this episode MP3 Podcast - No Animals Were Harmed in the Making of This Film on Pet Life Radio. var ACE_AR = {Site: '845738', Size: '468060'};

"There are a lot of opportunities in the nuclear sector, with the growing number of applications of ionizing radiation in medicine, agriculture, industry and other areas. And also with the promised renaissance of nuclear power. So without hesitation, I would recommend that young women consider careers in this field."