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What if?

What if this was my company and I was in charge of safety? “MONTCOAL, W.Va. (April 5) — The blast occurred around 3 p.m. at Massey Energy Co.’s sprawling Upper Big Branch mine as nine […]

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When More Is Less

One day, many years ago,  I was talking with the president of our railroad and he gave me some priceless advice.  He said, “Art, if you hire one more employee you should not automatically believe […]

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Publish or Perish

In academia there is a long standing understanding that professors must publish their works on a continuing basis if they expect to remain on the staff. In the railroad industry I won awards in 1964 […]

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Weekly Memo

Almost Who?

I’ve been digging through some of the photos and mementos I have collected in over a half a century in the safety field and I started to realize that I have played a number of […]

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Filling Space

When I approached this newsletter this morning there was this big blank space where an article was supposed to be and suddenly I had this weird impulse to just skip over to one of the […]

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Seymoure The Ant

A delightful story about Seymour the ant as only Art Fettig can tell it. Art has been telling this little story to amazed audiences all over the world demonstrating how they also can explore the […]