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  • Nothing Happened Yesterday

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    After a string of deaths, fires and near-fatal injuries in Massachusetts scrap yards, the industry is asking how to keep good people from drifting, and the answer may take sixty seconds at a time.

  • Harassment Awareness

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    2026 Safety & Conduct Reference Sheet WHAT COUNTS AS HARASSMENT Workplace harassment is unwelcome conduct based on a protected characteristic — such as sex, race, color, national origin, religion, age, disability, or genetic information — that is severe or pervasive enough to create a hostile work environment, or that results in an adverse employment action…

  • THE GOVERNOR COMES OFF

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    How a fix for stranded truckers became a referendum on the air a nation breathes I. The Mile Marker Somewhere on I-84 outside Hartford, a refrigerated trailer full of dairy is doing twenty-five miles an hour in the passing lane, hazards blinking, while a line of cars fumes behind it. The driver isn’t drunk, tired,…

  • The Silence Before the Fall

    The Silence Before the Fall

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    Is it time to leave, or stay and make a difference??

  • The Price of Protection

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    Salary Transparency, Silence, and the Hidden Economics of Environmental, Health, and Safety I. Two Badges, One Conference The lanyards look identical. That is the first thing worth noticing, standing in the registration line of any national EHS conference — the ASSP Safety Conference in a downtown convention center, or a regional NSC chapter meeting in…

  • THE COST OF BEING INDISPENSABLE

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    Why EHS Managers Absorb Growing Risk Without Growing Pay — and What to Do Before It’s Too Late

  • The Second S in EHSS: Does It Stand For Security or Sustainability – and Why the Answer Defines the Future of Your Career

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    By a Senior Environmental Health & Safety Professional | 15+ Years in the Field There is a quiet revolution happening in corner offices, boardrooms, and plant floors across North America, and it is being driven not by engineers or executives, but by a profession most people cannot fully define. Environmental Health & Safety — EHS…

  • Active Shooter Awareness

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    Beyond Paranoia: The Professional Case for Active Shooter Preparedness In the landscape of modern workplace safety, few topics generate as much discomfort as the discussion of an active shooter event. For many employees, the thought of a colleague or stranger entering the workplace with the intent to cause mass casualty feels like a scene from…

  • Confined Spaces Awareness

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    Confined SpaceHazard Awareness Know the spaces that can hurt you — before you ever step inside them. Working in a scrap yard means constant exposure to heavy machinery, towering material piles, narrow processing corridors, and powerful moving equipment. While oxygen-deficient atmospheres are not a primary concern for our operation — most work happens outdoors or in…

  • THE QUIET EROSION

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    Why Complacency Is the Most Dangerous Force in Any Organization — and Why So Few Leaders Know How to Fight It An In-Depth Analysis of the Psychology of Stagnation, the Failure of Management, and the Imperative of True Leadership There is a particular kind of damage that never shows up on a balance sheet. It…