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What is the difference between hazmat awareness, operations, and technician levels for HAZWOPER?

If you have the potential for a hazmat incident in your facility, it’s important that you know the difference between awareness, operations, and technician level responses. Allowing employees to operate at a higher…

How do you write your policies?

Do you struggle to write you company’s safety and environmental policies? Do you find them coming out too long and cumbersome and nobody understands or follows them? Here’s the process

What is the safety professional’s role in your organization?

When you think of safety professionals in your organization, what are their roles? Many managers, employees, and safety professionals themselves struggle to define the role that the safety professionals…

Emergency Exits

Many businesses do not manage their emergency exit signs and doors very well. I see this over and over again in facilities I visit. Historically, some of the worst catastrophes in our nation’s history…

What’s the difference between laws, regulations, and consensus standards?

If you’re like most people with a safety role, you have been faced with the question, “where did you find that? OSHA doesn’t say it in their standard!”, followed by hours of research to try and figure…

Don’t confuse tags as “tagout”​ when used on locks!

While used almost interchangeably, lockout and tagout are two different things. They are both designed to ensure equipment is kept deenergized while being serviced, but they are two different tactics. And this can

What’s your workplace violence prevention policy?

Does your business have a workplace violence policy and train in the event that something should happen? Or better yet, train to prevent it from happening in the first place? That’s right, there are ways you can train…

Wearing a Mask (Video)

How to properly wear a dust or N95 mask to prevent cross-contamination or a false sense of security during a virus.

Business Continuity Plans (Video)

Does your business have a business continuity plan? Join me here as we discuss what a good plan is and why you need one. These plans are imperative when disaster strikes and can mean the difference between surviving a disaster and going bankrupt…

Information about atmospheric monitors (Video)

Here we discuss atmospheric monitors, why we monitor the four gases we do, how to read them, and calibrations!

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Introducing Provenio Consulting (Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFTdl75JQ8I I would like to take a few minutes to introduce you to Provenio Consulting! Meet our team of experienced consultants and check out what we can do to help you! Provenio was founded by Brad Kramer, an industrial safety...

Codes and regulations that apply to you in safety (Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sO54hmo0qY If you are responsible for safety in your company, it is not just OSHA that you should be aware of. NFPA, ANSI, and other regulations play a role, as well. In many instances, OSHA will refer to building codes that are...

Beirut Explosion Takeaways (Video)

The explosion in Beirut was tragic, but not unprecedented. The U.S. has had comparable explosions and ammonium nitrate is very common. Join me as we talk about how you can find out what's in your neighborhood, how companies report similar hazardous materials, and how...

Respirator Fit Test (Video)

Let's talk briefly about respirator fit testing and what is required. Here I show a Bitrix qualitative fit test that is the preferred method for qualitative fit testing, particularly for N95 and half-mask respirators. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXsaJiJPyR8...

Respirators for COVID-19 (Video)

We discuss respirators for Covid-19, requirements, and considerations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZGZjFPP2xk

Publications

Brad Kramer, our principal safety consultant, has been featured in various publications. View his articles for Firehouse  and Safety & Health below.

Firehouse

Addressing Volunteer Decline Through Consulting.

Safety & Health

My Story: Readers share how they got into the EHS field.