This month we’re tackling one of the most cited OSHA topics out there — Lockout/Tagout (LOTO). If your company has a program that checks all of the audit boxes, but your employees are still having injuries, this episode explains why.  ⚙️ Top 3 LOTO Problems We’re Seeing in the Field  1️⃣ Bad or outdated templates. If your LOTO template or format is wrong, every single lockout procedure built from it can have problems.   2️⃣ Verification is clear as mud “Verify” doesn’t mean much if no on...

Sanitation's Top Danger Zones (And What To Do About Them)

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;