• The TopTen OSHA Violations Before Christmas. On the Third Day

    Santa received a notice of violation( 1926.503) Fall Protection – Training Requirements.  This happens to be #8 on OSHA’s TopTen violations for 2019. (Still #8 in 2023) Thanks to your help, it appears we’re on a roll solving the issues at Santa’s Northpole workshop so let’s keep the momentum going. … Listen ⇢

  • The TopTen OSHA Violations Before Christmas. On the Second Day

    Santa received a notice of violation( 1910.212) Machine Guarding. This is #9 on OSHA’s TopTen violations for 2019, (#9 in 2023). After solving the PPE issue yesterday – ANSWERS 1- Safety goggles or face shield – prevents the wood chips or dust from entering your eye or hitting your face. … Listen ⇢

  • The TopTen OSHA Violations Before Christmas. On the First Day

    Santa received a notice of violation( 1926.102) for lack of PPE – Eye and Face Protection. This is #10 on OSHA’s TopTen violations for 2019. (#9 in 2023, not good) The Industrial Revolution provided us with many great inventions of machinery.  Machinery is great because it helps to do the… Listen ⇢

  • The TopTen OSHA Violations Before Christmas.

    Santa received an OSHA violation and pending inspection notice. Right now, as you are reading this, Santa’s elves are hard at work putting the finishing touches on the toys and other gifts made for girls and boys around the world.  But friends, I’m here to tell you that those kids… Listen ⇢

  • Our PSPS. Mistakes were made, what we learned

    When Kelly Clarkson sings, “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” highlights why that’s one of the best things about life, the ability to learn from your mistakes if you want too.   It makes you better, wiser, and older. That’s exactly what happened during our one and only PSPS (Public… Listen ⇢

  • A Train Point of View

      The RER C train that takes you out to Versailles from Paris (route in the grey box above) can be transferred to from the Invalides metro station after a walk, an escalator, moving walkway and steps.  It’s a real treat to go from subway cars to a double-decker train… Listen ⇢

  • Are You Ready for a Visit From Mother Nature?

    California. Always unique in many ways and last week was no exception.  As the headlines will tell you, we celebrated the fourth of July with a 6.4 Earthquake Rocks Los Angeles Area on Fourth of July and of course, that was upstaged by No deaths reported after 7.1 earthquake rocks Ridgecrest and California soon… Listen ⇢

  • The Company Civil War

    Everyone wants to think they’re in charge.  Some sales and marketing departments think they’re in charge.  Some think manufacturing is in charge and some think purchasing and supply chain is in charge. In the vast city known as Candy-Land (protecting the real company name) there existed but only three gangs… Listen ⇢

  • The Company As Hostage

    The company had a very old ASRS, Automated Storage and Retrieval System to store the majority of it’s finished product inventory.  We were in transition as the company had gone into receivership and was run by an investment corporation that was trying to keep overall costs as low as possible while… Listen ⇢

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