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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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Discussion on Having Worksite First Response Teams (Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwAT8Ot12Yg First aid and CPR instructor Tim Harves and I discuss OSHA's requirements for a trained first response team, some considerations and legal requirements, equipment you should have, training, and other aspects of having a team...

Writing a Safety Policy (Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sijTKtoaOc4 Do you struggle with writing safety policies? I discuss how to determine which policies you need, how to figure out what to include, keeping them brief and easy to follow, and what should and should not be in them! Many...

Differences Between Minnesota OSHA (MNOSHA) and Federal OSHA (Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GO696j81cI Did you know Minnesota OSHA, or MNOSHA, has additional requirements for employers that Federal OSHA does not have? Here I talk about general industry standards that are different. Some examples in Minnesota include: Internal...

Preplan Worksheet (Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFUF9avSMnQ If you would like a free and easy chemical hazard preplan assessment, Provenio makes one available free for you to use! Just enter a few numbers from the SDS and it automatically converts everything for consistency! Follow...

Safety Policy Organization (Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75iygKIaSCw If you struggle to organize your safety and environmental documents (policies, procedures, logs, training documents, SDS, etc.), then this document is for you! It is free on Provenio’s website for you to use, and I...

Publications

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

Firehouse

Firehouse

Addressing Volunteer Decline Through Consulting.

Safety & Health

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