By: Allencia Ballard A serious workplace injury or death changes lives forever – for families, friends, communities, and coworkers, it is a devastating tragedy. Every worker is exposed to hazards in the workplace, regardless of the location or industry. Workplaces…
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Delta Variant Safety In the WorkPlace
Covid Delta Variant Safety In The Workplace For the 50 years that OSHA has been in existence, employers and workers have known that certain hazards exist in the workplace. OSHA has created standards to assist employers in controlling known hazards…
The Events of 2020 and Restarting Safety for the Future
It’s been more than a year. The year of a pandemic also known as Covid 19 or the Corona Virus. With it came many distractions affecting everyone and everything, everywhere. We have learned how to make changes to the work…
What Documents will OSHA look at during an inspection?
Getting an OSHA inspection is a rare event. It would be roughly one in an 400 years if the 30 million businesses get one of OSHA 80,000 annual inspections. Having a complaint, hospitalization or an amputation would be a common…
Helpful Resources to Prevent Grain Bin and Silo Accidents
Among the numerous safety hazards farmers face are those associated with grain bins and silos. Accidents involving grain bins and silos can cause severe injuries and death. Last year, accidents in Grant Park, Illinois and North Manchester, Indiana, resulted in…
What is Your Safety IQ?
Most of us make regular visits to the doctor for check-ups or to help improve our health. In those visits, the doctor first takes our temperature, weight, blood pressure and checks our heart. It is important the doctor test these…
Our Experts
Allencia Ballard, MPM
OSHA-Authorized General Industry Outreach Trainer
Allencia Ballard has been designing and delivering curriculum and learning materials to teach adults in the business and education sectors for over 10 years. She is an OSHA-authorized General Industry Outreach Trainer with 6 years of manufacturing safety and environmental health experience, specializing in hazard recognition and machine guarding safety. She also holds a master's degree in Project Management.
Brent Bryden
OSHA-Authorized Outreach Trainer
Brent Bryden has 35 years of manufacturing safety and environmental health experience. Brent specializes in facilitating training for small, medium and large employers with a wide range of needs. He is passionate about using basic safety education and training to form strong safety foundations within an organization. Continuous improvement in safety training is his vision and providing results-oriented, quality products and services is his goal. Services: Training, Inspection Audits, Abatement Assistance, Safety Program Development, Implementation & Management.
Don Bartalone
OSHA-Authorized General Industry and Construction Outreach Trainer
Don Bartalone is the lead instructor at the National Safety Education Center. He has 35 years of transportation and warehouse industry experience, serving on the safety team and committee for 20 of those years. Don also spent five years as a facility manager/safety coordinator for an oil refinery and has recently traveled to Saudi Arabia to assist in safety program development for the world’s largest oil company. He holds National Safety Council certificates in Fork Lift Truck Operator Training, Incident Investigation, Safety Inspections and Advanced Safety. Services: 10- and 30-hour General Industry OSHA training, OSHA 511, 501 and 503 instruction.