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…
Category: Safety Career
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…
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…
Bad Habits Hurt
Do any of your co-workers have bad habits when it comes to safety? If you’ve worked with others for any length of time, you’ve likely observed some risky behaviors. Maybe you’ve seen the same person taking risks more than once…
Become an OSHA-Authorized Outreach Trainer
What is an Outreach Trainer? An OSHA-authorized outreach trainer is a person who already has some experience in safety roles, then volunteers to take a series of safety and health courses to increase their knowledge and learn how to teach…
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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.