Toolbox Talks: Wait a minute; back that car up.
When you’re in a parking lot or parking garage, do you notice that some vehicles are backed into the parking spaces? As you picture...
Toolbox Talks: How a fractured thumb can result in uneven hip bones
A 17-year-old female Australian cricket player went to the hospital with a thumb injury.
X-rays revealed a fracture down the middle of the knuckle on...
Industry group: Capital Region seeing mixed progress on transportation initiatives
Over the past two years, the Baton Rouge area has seen mixed progress on previously recommended strategies to advance regional mobility, safety and economic goals, according...
Toolbox Talks: Tragic decisions
I recently had the opportunity to attend a short training session on hoist and crane safety. Rigging and lifting is not my area of...
Toolbox Talks: 3 questions to ask (and not ask) your workers
The way you ask a question makes a big difference in the response you get. When it comes to Human Performance and safety, you...
20 common OSHA citations and how to avoid them
At its core, the success of the manpower-strapped Occupational Safety and Health Administration is measured by one overriding calculus: the number of citations issued...
Turner Industries wins national tech award for its workflow tablet
Industrial contracting firm Turner Industries has received a 2019 Constructech Vision for Safety Award for Turner Tablet, an innovative technology system that allows crews...
Toolbox Talks: Safety is a byproduct
Ask yourself this question: If my company was thinking about adopting a Human Performance process to reduce the frequency and severity of human error,...
$32B in construction projects are lined up through 2022. Can Louisiana handle it?
A trucker’s daily bumper-to-bumper crawl on I-10 in Lake Charles and Baton Rouge has consequential impacts on commerce, to be sure, but it spotlights...
Toolbox Talks: Curse of knowledge, blind spots and other cognitive biases that impact safety
Welcome to the final part of our cognitive bias trilogy, "Cognitive Bias isn’t a thing; it’s a ton of things."
Previously we discussed a hospital...
