
Do you have a copy of, and have you read OSHA Inspections Preparation and Response? This should be the first two questions you ask when your interviewing a potential safety professional for a position within your organization? For any safety professional, employer, frontline supervisor, or member of any corporate leadership team, this book is a must read! The author Rick Kaletsky nails it.
I do not know the author and I do not have his permission to endorse his book, nor am I getting any compensation from the publisher. It is just a really good reference guide for any organization with employees exposed to hazards.
I have had this book in my possession for several years now. I used it as reference guide and training outline when I was in the private sector. The contents of this book really enabled me to make a cultural shift in that organization whereby we trimmed the accident injury rate from a double-digit DART rates to null. We managed to save tons of money trimmed about 50% of our Workers Comp rate over a period of about 5 years. We also decreased our exposure to OSHA regulatory action. This book literally lets the "OSHA Jeannie out of the bottle”.
In my experience as a leader inside OSHA I often recommended this book to employers that I could see wanted to do the right thing but were struggling with staying in compliance. Some took my advice others did not. The ones that did were successful and the ones that did not were back in front of me wondering why OSHA was targeting them. 9 times out 10 OSHA penalties were levied because leadership on the ground or as we say in the navy “on the deck plates” was ill prepared to deal with a compliance officer from OSHA. So, it is simple, get the book, make them read it, and give them the tools to meet your expectations.
Be safe and have a great COVID-19 free Weekend - Bud Underwood
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