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 Safety Power Shutoff) that we… Read More Our PSPS. Mistakes were made, what we learned
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 after. When the ground shook… Read More Are You Prepared?
It’s a wake-up call. One humungous wet, windy wake-up call. When hurricane Harvey blasted into southwest Texas leaving extensive damage and flooding, the scale of which is all most beyond comprehension. Then hurricane Irma took the spotlight unleashing her fury on the Caribbean and Florida. This is very sad and horrible on so many… Read More A Surefire way to improve your chances of survival – Emergency Kit
Dorothy was a machine operator for over 10 years at the Lyon Metals Processing Plant, during which time she attended numerous safety meetings. At least once a year the topic the safety manager covered in detail was how employees were to respond in the event of an emergency evacuation for either a fire,… Read More The Green Brick Road of Safety-A Chronicle
We all deal with limitations of one sort or another and at times we have depended on machinery of some type to help us compensate for those limitations. However, we tend to become enamored by their speed and strength and forget that those pieces of industrial powered machinery have limits themselves as we take them for granted… Read More RBMB-Exceeded Limitations
Welcome back, Happy Holidays, thank you for stopping by. As you may know, OSHA recently released it’s annual top 10 violations for 2016 which quickly made the rounds. People offered their opinions about it, criticized and pointed wagging fingers as those for more regulation and those for less regulation stood their ground on principle refusing… Read More Companies Behaving Badly-YEAR END
I recently had the pleasure to complete a CERT (Community Emergency Response Team ) class offered by the Vallejo Fire Department. After 6 weeks of class every Tuesday evening which totaled 28 hours of instruction, demonstration and practice, that all came to completion on a beautiful Saturday morning on Mare Island with a final written exam,… Read More The CERT Experience
Each and every company has its own unique identity beginning with its name and logo to its style on how it conducts business, its behavior dealing with customers, vendors and especially how their own workers are treated, it’s ethics, it’s morals, it’s CULTURE. Make no mistake about it, the culture of a company is always determined… Read More Companies Behaving Badly – Toxic Culture
Welcome back and thank you for stopping by. In most companies, you as an employee are held accountable for your actions at work, whether it’s following safety rules, operational procedures, meeting daily production goals or how you respond to others. You understand that repeatedly violating those “rules”, will be documented by your employer until enough… Read More Companies Behaving Badly-Negligent
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