Training
Interview With 5S and Six Sigma Expert Brion Hurley
Creative Safety Supply was honored to have the opportunity to interview a Lean manufacturing expert. In this interview, Andrew McCall of Creative Safety Supply talks to Brion Hurley of Business Performance Improvement about the concept of 5S and its implementation in businesses. Brian discusses the eight wastes of Lean, emphasizing inventory as a commonly overlooked…
CSS Editorial Staff | June 5, 2023 | 5S, Lean, Training | 5S, Facility Efficiency, Lean, Lean Culture, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma
Creative Safety Supply Named as Approved Vendor for Ammonia Refrigeration Training Solutions
We are excited to announce that we have recently been named the latest approved vendor for Ammonia Refrigeration Training Solutions (ARTS). ARTS is an organization that provides the best training and services for all types of industrial ammonia refrigeration systems. When used properly, ammonia refrigeration systems are the most efficient and safest form of refrigeration…
CSS Editorial Staff | November 11, 2022 | Company Updates, Training | Ammonia Pipe Marking, Labeling, Operator Training, Pipe Marking
Asbestos Awareness Training for Your Facility
Asbestos Training When people hear or think about asbestos most of them assume it is a problem from the past that has been addressed long ago. The reality, however, is that the vast majority of facilities in operation around the world today still have asbestos in them. Only facilities that have been tested and certified as…
Tony Ferraro | March 24, 2016 | Training | Asbestos, Asbestos Safety, OSHA, Safety
Safety Training Trends in the Workplace
Preparing for New Safety Training Trends When it comes to safety training, the work is never completed. Even when you’ve made significant progress in one area, you will find that there are still problems in another. In addition, as the workplace continues to grow and change, new safety hazards will continue to pop up, requiring…
Tony Ferraro | December 2, 2014 | Training | Facility Marking, Labeling, OSHA, Safety, Safety Signs, Workplace Safety
5 Tips to Become a Successful Safety Coach
Do you want to be a Safety Coach? One of the best ways for a facility to reduce the number of accidents and help ensure a safe workplace is to have a qualified safety coach on site. Whether you’re looking to become a safety coach, or you want to hire one, it is important to…
Tony Ferraro | October 2, 2014 | Training | Safety Coach
10 Skills Safety Professionals Must Have
Wide Range of Skills for Safety Professionals If you are working as a safety manager or in another safety professional role you will need to have a wide range of different skills in order to meet the needs of the job. While every position will be slightly different, there are many skills that are necessary…
Tony Ferraro | September 3, 2014 | Training | Safety Professionals
Quality Culture Is Key to Success
Good business leaders are consistently evaluating the quality of their business and the goods or services they offer. Many times this involves looking at various statistics, customer reviews, and total sales figures. However, more and more top executive leaders are realizing that the quality of their company has to do with more than just numbers…
CSS Editorial Staff | May 14, 2014 | Training, Value Stream | Value Stream, Value Stream Mapping
Incentives and Safety Programs
By far one of the hardest elements of running a successful business is, safety. From transportation, to production floors, to assembly lines, to just walking around an office, business owners expose themselves and their employees to some degree of risk at every level. Often, new programs or ideas for safety improvement are touted as a…
Tony Ferraro | February 17, 2014 | Training | Safety Programs
The Long-Reaching Benefits of Employee Stretch Breaks
Remember when you used to have to stretch before games when playing sports as a kid? Stretching is meant to keep your muscles limber and decrease your chances of pulling them under strain. We all know this, but as we get older we tend to ignore some of the health precautions we were asked to…
Tony Ferraro | February 10, 2014 | Training | Health, Injury Prevention, Safety, Stretching
How to Make sure Employee Training is Effective & Retained
Employee training is one of the most difficult parts of managing an effective team. Especially in a work environment where work safety comes into play often (for example, in a physical labor-heavy industry), the retention of training information becomes critical to your business’ success and longevity. Unfortunately, few managers have made it through their careers…
Tony Ferraro | December 31, 2013 | Training | Safety, Workplace Safety
Reasons To Provide Language Specific Safety Training to Employees
The Spanish-speaking population in the U.S. is growing and will soon to be the largest minority group in the country. This also means that a large and growing part of our workforce includes those who speak English as a second language. However, in addition to Spanish there are many other languages many non-English speakers hold…
Tony Ferraro | December 3, 2013 | Training | OSHA, Safety, Spanish Resources, Workplace Safety
Writing Effective Safety Procedures
When running a business it is the responsibility of you and your safety team, which varies with the size of your operation, to make sure that employees in your charge are adequately protected at all times. A safe workforce is a happy workforce, and a happy workforce is a productive one. Safety procedures serve another…
Tony Ferraro | November 25, 2013 | Training | Safety Procedures
Five Ways To Be An Approachable, Effective Leader In The Workplace
In a management position, it’s easy to get cut off or distanced from the people working on the “ground floor” of your operation, so to speak. One of the side effects of this disconnect is that communication breakdowns can form when employees don’t readily come to you, or don’t know that they can come to…
Tony Ferraro | November 18, 2013 | Training | Workplace Safety
Downside to Incentives
When it comes to improving workplace safety, there is no shortage of ideas on how it should be done. One controversial method many organizations have tried is using some sort of incentive or compensation program for improved safety. If, for example, employees attend or participate in a safety seminar, they may be rewarded with a…
Tony Ferraro | November 14, 2013 | Training | Workplace Safety
S.E.A.T Coaching Positive: Correction
Depending on the dynamic between employees and managers in a workplace, approaching and opening a dialogue about unsafe behaviors can be a little bit daunting. You want to approach the situation in a delicate way, as to not bruise egos or spark tempers, but you also need to be firm in communicating your expectations. To…
Tony Ferraro | October 17, 2013 | Training | Safety Coach