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Just a Poem
I was preparing for a local presentation I would be doing soon to celebrate April as a month that pays tribute to poets. As I stared at the wall of my office I started wondering […]
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For the Cause
Herb True PhD from Notre Dame was my mentor. One time he walked onstage at a huge convention with a pistol and fired blanks several times in the air and he said, “Nobody sleeps during my […]
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Weekly Memo
Safety Is Our #1 Priority…Almost
Sounds good, doesn’t it? Looks good too in print on the list of corporate objectives but it doesn’t bring in those multi-million dollar bonuses to Corporate presidents or CEO’s.. Cutting costs, making profits, paying dividends, […]
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Selling Safety in Corporate America
If you don’t toot your horn then who will? One of the many schemes I employed when I worked for a corporation was to team up with a fellow who headed a different department. We […]
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Do’s and Don’ts of Safety
When you cut all the way down to the quick then you might say that safety consists mostly with a whole mess of do’s and don’ts. When I began working for the railroad they had […]
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Discontent
Thomas Edison once said, “Discontent is the first necessity of progress.” As I ponder this thought I look back and see that most of our world’s progress occurred because some folks, somewhere, had a burr […]
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Better Safety Meetings in 2010
The entire audience was hissing the speaker except for one man. He was applauding the hissing. Does this sound like your last safety meeting? Oh, if this could have been your last safety meeting, but […]
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Better Safety Meetings in 2010
The entire audience was hissing the speaker except for one man. He was applauding the hissing. Does this sound like your last safety meeting? Oh, if this could have been your last safety meeting, but […]