Is Employee Fatigue the Greatest Problem We Face?
Safety Professionals do a fine job of determining the “root causes” or “contributing factors” of incidents in order to prevent the next accident. Executives might apply this analysis to employee...
View ArticleI'm Just HR ... How Do I Counsel My Boss ... and keep my job?
Fran Sepler recently posted an insightful blog,“I’m Sort of Sorry: Coaching the High Level Harasser” discussing coaching a high-level performer regarding harassment, poor behavior or insensitivity. It...
View ArticlePlant Engineering Shares Timely Safety Articles By Rockwell Automation and ABB
I enjoy articles that I discover in Plant Engineering because one of my (many) goals is to obtain more coordination between the safety, engineering, maintenance and purchasing functions. Management of...
View ArticleIT’S NOT TOO SOON TO BEGIN PLANNING FOR THE FLU
Almost 4.1 million workers missed work last January because of illness. The peak flu season generally lasts through March, and in some years over 15 million workers have missed work due to illness...
View ArticlePractice Thanksgiving At Work
Although Americans have celebrated some sort of Thanksgiving since 1661, Abraham Lincoln established Thanksgiving as a national holiday by proclamation on November 28, 1861. The Thanksgiving holiday...
View ArticleGet Caught “Again” By A Snow Apocalypse And You'll Have No One To Blame But...
Laura Stack posted an excellent INC. article,“You Can’t Stop A Polar Vortex, But You Can Be Ready For The Next One.” While I travel constantly, I live in Atlanta, so this is a visceral subject to me...
View ArticleA Road Warrior’s Observations on Responsibility, Civility, Mentorship, and...
Measles and Personal ResponsibilityI’m a conservative free market, individual rights oriented, gun owning, evangelical leaning person who grew up in the hills of North Georgia. I deal with the Federal...
View ArticleDoes The Ratio Of CEO To Employee Pay Matter?
The SEC recently voted to require employers to disclose the pay gap between the CEO and his or her employees. Unions, investors, and other groups have increasingly been using this disparity to attack...
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