May is here and temperatures are rising. It’s important to protect employees from heat stress, even if it’s not August. The Cal/OSHA regulation requires employee training, and they have developed an Employer Training Kit that contains nicely formatted and ready to print training resources. You can link into the training kit or you can...

The “Click It or Ticket” mobilization period will begin on Monday May 21 through June 3, 2012. “Click It or Ticket” is a cooperative effort among the five traffic safety-related departments under the state’s Business, Transportation and Housing Agency: the California Highway Patrol, Office of Traffic Safety, Department of Transportation, Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, and the Department of Motor Vehicles.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, sixty-one...

When I train people, I ask for questions, comments and stories from my trainees. Sometimes, it can get off-subject, but most of the time great things are shared. And sometimes you get a gem that you can use in future training. I’m all about adding humor to a presentation as long as it is tasteful while following the topic and point I am trying to make. Last week I got a gem………

I was teaching a new defensive driving program that was developed by two of my BRS colleges for the first time to about 25 bus transit operators. One critical area is distracted driving and I tell a story about a bus operator in the mid-west that was caught eating cereal (with milk) from a large bowl placed in the steering wheel webbing, while driving the bus on his route. Of course this get plenty of comments, laughter, and OMG’s. But one gentleman raised his hand and asked……………….. “If this driver gets into an accident and kills someone…………..is he a cereal killer????????????????”

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