As it is workplace safety is not the most glamorous topic around the world and when it comes to personal safety in general it’s not something most people talk about at all unless a major incident has been recently covered on television or the internet. It doesn’t help when safety managers and other professionals are… Read More Companies Behaving Badly-Rules? We Don’t Need No Stinkin Rules
Companies spend thousands of dollars each year on sanitation and pest control along with thousands of hours on the training of personnel to properly handle those tasks or spend hours screening and evaluating outside contractors. Either way, they want to provide the highest level of quality to ensure the best product produced. The fabulous news… Read More Secrets of the Professionals Revealed That You Can Use at Home.
The art of the Pop In – One of the most valuable things I learned as an employee through years of observation is that boys will be boys at any age, so when I joined the ranks of management I made sure to implement another concept I learned, the Pop-In. You may have heard… Read More Companies Behaving Badly-The Art of the Pop-In
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This week Americold Logistics, was issued 2 repeat and 2 serious citations from OSHA at their Manchester facility based on complaints from 3 employees. The employees were forced to use forklifts in need of repair and were not taken out of service as they were trained to do. This really burns my butt. You… Read More Burns My Butt – Double Standards
If the inventory in your warehouse looks like this, you have already lost money. Give enough room for storage, keep fast movers close to the dock, cross dock whenever possible and respect all inventory like it was cash. Need to up your AIB/ASI score? Customer audit pending? Need help? We’re here and ready.
Happy New Year and welcome to the first issue of 2015. Unfortunately it’s beginning to look like other years, as of November 22, 2014 (FY 2014) 246 workers have already died while doing nothing more than their job. This is 23 more deaths then this time last year, that’s a 10 percent jump! The numbers… Read More Companies Behaving Badly – New Dying Year
As we had learned in step 3 – Training, even though it is listed as the third step, it is still an extremely important detail to a successful peak season. With that said, this next step, safety is not only just as equally important as training but in fact, they go together hand in hand. Safety is… Read More 5 Steps For a Successful Peak Season – STEP 4
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