In this episode on Hot work and fire watch gaps, opportunities, and failures, the focus is on critical issues related to hot work procedures, permitting Joe and Jen begin by highlighting common misunderstandings and gaps in hot work permitting and hot work safety practices within the industry.  Key Points Covered:  Importance of Fire Watch Training: The episode starts with a discussion on the inadequate coverage of fire watch responsibilities in industry training. The host emphasizes the need...

Contractor Safety: Construction Safety Audits & Smooth Projects #57

Joe and Jen Allen of Allen Safety LLC take their combined 40+ years of worker safety, OSHA, EPA, production, sanitation, and engineering experience in Manufacturing Plants including Harvest Plants/Packers,&nbsp; Case Readies and Further Processing Plants, Food Production Plants,&nbsp; Feed Mills, Grain Elevators, Bakeries, Farms, Feed Lots, and Petro-Chemical and bring you their top methods for identifying risk, preventing injuries, conquering the workload, auditing, managing emergencies and catastrophic events, and working through OSHA citations. They're breaking down real safety opportunities,&nbsp; safety citations, and emergency situations from real locations, and discussing realistic solutions that can actually be implement based on their personal experiences spending 40+ weeks in the field every year since 2001.&nbsp; Joe and Jen are using all of that experience to provide a fresh outlook on worker safety by providing honest, (no sponsors here!) and straight forward, easy to understand safety coaching with actionable guidance to move your safety program forward in a way that provides tangible results.&nbsp;