Workplace Safety: Does Your Company Have a Positive Safety Culture?
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Workplace Safety: Does Your Company Have a Positive Safety Culture?

Safety is a lifestyle. To lower the chances of accidents, safe procedures should become part of everybody’s everyday routine. This means building a positive safety culture. Getting to that place takes some work. It’s not enough to create the right safety policies. You need more. Specifically, you need buy in from every level of the…

When Was the Last Time You Updated Your Job Descriptions?
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When Was the Last Time You Updated Your Job Descriptions?

Are you getting the right candidates for your open positions? Are you getting any qualified candidates at all? Do you have to sift through reams of unpromising resumes before you find that rare exciting applicant? If you’re getting the wrong answers to these questions, you should rethink your process. In fact, you might need to…

Workplace Safety: 5 Common OSHA Violations and How to Prevent Them
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Workplace Safety: 5 Common OSHA Violations and How to Prevent Them

You want the best for your workers. You strive to maintain the highest safety standards and avoid risk as much as possible. Still, you worry about OSHA violations. Good intentions aren’t always enough. You need to know the most common OSHA violations and how to prevent them. The prospect of OSHA fines can be scary….

Why Temporary Staffing is One Way to Recession-Proof Your Business
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Why Temporary Staffing is One Way to Recession-Proof Your Business

Worried about the current economy? Of course, you are. There are plenty of reasons to suspect trouble. A good team-building strategy can prepare you for anything. Specifically, a game plan centered on temporary staffing is one way to recession-proof your business. The dislocations of 2020 have left a lot of economic uncertainties. With COVID still…

Workplace Safety: Do Your Workers Know All the Safety Procedures?

You’re committed to safety. You have devised precise policies for every situation, making sure every action is as safe as possible. But are you sure those protocols are getting enacted on a daily basis? Do your workers know all the safety procedures that you set up? A strong commitment to safety training reduces accidents and…

Treat Your Temporary Employees Like Members of Your Team

Treat Your Temporary Employees Like Members of Your Team

Maximizing your output means getting the most out of everyone you’ve got working for you. That includes your temps. You might look at these workers as transitory contributors, but that conception represents a mistake. To reach your peak performance, you need to treat your temporary employees like full-fledged members of the team.  Temporary work has become a major force in the…

How to Make Your Job Screening Process More Cost-Effective

There’s a central tension involved in any recruitment effort. You want to find the best possible candidates for each open position. At the same time, you want your job screening process to stay as cost-effective as possible. These goals often run contrary to each other.  Let’s simplify what we mean:  Business rule #1: hiring the right people is crucial for building a…

Why Communication is the Key to Safety

Why Communication is the Key to Safety

Imagine how workplace safety would work without communication. Each worker would do whatever they thought was best. Some would barely get any work done because they would spend 99% of their time in safety protocols. Others would recklessly careen around the facility, sure that nothing bad would happen because they “got this covered.”   In other words: anarchy, accidents,…