Toolbox Talks

“Just A Second” One day, Brad was assigned to help senior welder Tracy with some welding assignments at some remote company locations. After completing one job, a company pumper approached

Systems Safety System Safety is the application of special technical and managerial skills in a systematic, forward looking manner to identify and control hazards throughout the life cycle of a

Safe Guarding Accidents involving unguarded machinery and equipment often result in disfiguring type injuries, amputations, and death. Safeguarding is your first and best defense against these types of accidents. Safeguarding

“Electrical Safety Basics” Electricity is something that cannot be seen and, yet, it is the most useful power controlled by man. Although  useful, it can be very destructive power to

Dropped Hammer Head During scaffolding activities the head of a hammer came off and fell 15 meters to the ground, landing between two workers. Basic causes included: Head came off

“Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein This has to do with what our focus is on.

We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us On a day in 1970, a well-known comic strip called Pogo had environmental protection as its subject for the day. Upon

By: Skip Weisman When is a team not a team? Regardless of your definition of what constitutes a team and teamwork, at the end of the day, it is all

Struck By Hazards Struck-by hazards may result from vehicles, falling/flying objects or construction walls. You are at risk from falling objects when you are beneath cranes, scaffolds, etc., or where

Sleep Deprivation Of all of the damaging activities and habits that we can develop that will harm the body, perhaps none is more overlooked than sleep deprivation. Failure to get