Why You Should Train Your Field Staff to Communicate with the Client
In construction, business owners, executives and project managers often spend their time pulled between jobsites and corporate offices, and their schedule rarely leaves time to...
Do You Have an Emergency Preparedness Plan?
It’s one thing to add time in a schedule for bad weather, but would you and your employees know what to do in the event of a flood, fire or other natural or manmade disaster...
United Rentals STEP Program Trains Veterans as Service Technicians
For mechanically inclined vets, STEP is a bridge to the future.
Pre-shift Inspection Tip for Lifts: Check Your Lug Nuts and Pins
When operating heavy equipment, including boom and scissor lifts, a pre-shift or pre-trip inspection is critical. These inspections include a visual check for a range of problems...
Creating Temporary Mobile Microgrids
Microgrids are transforming the energy landscape in the United States and Canada. Powered by a variety of sources, such as solar arrays, wind turbines and diesel and natural gas...
For Better Safety Performance, Look to Your C-Suite
If your TRIR rate and DART score aren’t what you’d like them to be, ask yourself this: Do your senior executives live and breathe your company’s safety program? Are they talking...
Why Holding Toolbox Talks Daily is Not Too Often
Research shows that when it comes to these brief safety meetings, more is better. Short and specific to the tasks at hand, toolbox talks serve multiple purposes. They remind...
How Often Do You Review Your Safety Program’s Performance?
Your company may have most of the elements of a great safety program in place, including commitment and support from management, regular site-specific safety meetings and ongoing...
What Are Your Company’s Core Safety Principles?
Does your company have a set of rules for employees that may not be broken?
Reduce Incident Rates with Better New Hire Safety Orientations
Want to slash your company’s TRIR (total recordable incident rate) and DART (days away, restricted or transferred) scores in half? Beef up your new hire safety orientation program...
