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20 Questions to Make Sure You Measure What Matters

20 Questions to Make Sure You Measure What Matters

Explore 20 essential questions to enhance your safety program’s effectiveness, ensuring your KPIs truly align with and improve workplace safety.

Clean Sweep: Do’s and Don’ts for Boosting Your Team’s Housekeeping Habits

Clean Sweep: Do’s and Don’ts for Boosting Your Team’s Housekeeping Habits

How do you motivate your team to clean up and get involved in your company’s 5S program? How do you turn housekeeping into a habit? Here’s what to do and not do.

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Construction Hazards on the Jobsite: How Well Can Your Employees Recognize Them?

Construction Hazards on the Jobsite: How Well Can Your Employees Recognize Them?

At the most basic level, your workers should be aware of potential construction hazards that relate to their discipline.

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Facing Safety Challenges Together in the KPA Flex User Community – an Interview

Facing Safety Challenges Together in the KPA Flex User Community – an Interview

In this episode of The Safety Meeting, we highlight KPA Connect and the customer community collaborating to improve and take full advantage of KPA Flex software.

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Safety Training Tips and Tactics An Interview KPA’s Training Team

Safety Training Tips and Tactics An Interview KPA’s Training Team

In this episode of The Safety Meeting we discuss crafting successful safety training. Learn tips for crafting effective, memorable safety training.

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KPA Dealership Trust Survey: Understanding the Gap Between Perception and Reality

KPA Dealership Trust Survey: Understanding the Gap Between Perception and Reality

Discover the results of the KPA Dealership Trust Survey and understand the gap between perception and reality in the car buying experience.

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2020 Minimum Wage Changes in 26 States and 42 Local Areas

December 11, 2019
Every year KPA rounds up all the states, cities, and counties that will see an increase in minimum wage at the end of the year and starting in 2020. 
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Can Training Courses Be Part of Corrective Action?

December 9, 2019
In a monthly series we answer frequently asked questions. This month: Can we require an employee to complete an anger management course as a condition of continued employment in a written warning of corrective action?
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Pop Quiz: Hand & Power Tool Safety

December 9, 2019
Do you know how to use and care for hand and power tools correctly? Can you prove you’re smarter than a caveman? Take KPA’s Hand & Power Tool Safety Pop Quiz
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How to Increase Interest in Your Training Programs

December 4, 2019
Training employees and changing their behavior is hard but builds a strong safety culture. We have 3 ways to get your employees interested in your training.
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ISO 45001: What You Need to Know

December 4, 2019
What Is ISO 45001? Is it mandatory? What are the benefits of implementing it? Learn the basics of the new international occupational health and safety standard
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Think Twice Before You Promote Your Star Employee to Manager

December 3, 2019
Not all productive employees are born leaders. Just because you’re really good at your job doesn’t mean you have what it takes to help others be better at theirs.
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Buffalo Wild Wings Is Now 0–2 in Preventing Fatal Chemical Exposures

November 20, 2019
A death at a Buffalo Wild Wings demonstrates the importance of hazard communication training—and the tragic cost of repeating EHS mistakes.
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Why Answers About Cannabis and Workers’ Comp Remain Elusive

November 19, 2019
Should a worker using cannabis for medical reasons have their costs covered or reimbursed? The question continues to confound workers comp professionals.
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The Band-Aid Approach to Harassment Prevention Didn’t Work for McDonald’s

November 19, 2019
Workers at McDonald’s went on strike protesting the company’s harassment prevention approach. But McD’s already has a policy and training—what gives?
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