We have been excited to get the chance to work together with Custom Truck One Source (and Don Pratt) to improve their employee training and learning and development programs. And we’re glad it’s going so well! 🙂
See what a customer has to say about working with us in the video below. You can also check out more in our Client Testimonial video clip and our Client Testimonial web page.
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What should you focus your safety management program on? Should your focus be on complying with requirements from safety and health regulators such as OSHA and/or MSHA? Or should you consider a risk-based safety approach, such as the approach sketched out in the ANSI/ASSP Z690 Risk Management standard?
We’ll give some thoughts about this below and provide some resources to help with next steps. And we invite you use the comments section to share your own thoughts and experiences as well.
We’ve included a free guide to risk-based approaches to occupational safety and health at the bottom of this article for you as well as at the link you just passed.
A key concept in industrial hygiene, and an important OSHA safeguard for workers, is the idea of an action level, which is often abbreviated as AL.
In this article, we’ll explain what an OSHA action level is and tell you where you can find more information about action levels.
This is another article in our ongoing series we call Industrial Hygiene (IH) Basics. For more articles on IH topics, just scroll down to the set of links at the bottom of this article.
And read on to learn more about action levels.
The ANSI/ASSP Z690 Risk Management Standards are the US national standards for applying risk management for occupational safety and health.
They are the US adoption of the ISO 31000 Risk Management Standards, in case you wondered.
If you’d like to learn more, continue reading, because we’re going to give a 100-level introduction to the Z690 standards as part of a longer series of articles explaining Z690 and discussing the use of risk management for occupational safety and health.
And by the way, we’ve included a free guide to using risk-based approaches for occupational safety and health management at the bottom of this article.
The ANSI/ASQ 9001: 2015 Quality Management Systems Standard is the US national standard for Quality Management Systems (QMS).
It is an identical adoption of the ISO 9001 standard for Quality Management Systems.
If you’d like to learn more, read on. Also, know that we’ve got a nice (and free!) 7 Basic Tools of Quality download for you at the bottom of this article, as well as the following other Quality-related downloads for you: Deming’s 14 Management Points Guide, DMAIC Infographic, and PDCA Cycle infographic.
Hazard identification is important at any work site with hazards. And so that’s true in the world of mining as well, obviously.
But are people born with an expert-ability to identify hazards? They are not. And so it makes sense to provide training to help people learn to spot hazards on the job.
Which brings us to the next obvious question: how do you teach people to identify hazards? It may seem simple and easy at first, but give it a little thought and you’ll probably agree it’s not such an obvious question.
We’re going to look at that issue in a little more detail in a future article, but for now we want to focus on one part of the training you can give to teach people to recognize hazards: let them practice identifying hazards in a realistic simulated environment.
In this interview, Brianna Eiter of NIOSH Mining explains their new EXAMiner hazard identification computer-based training tool to provide practice identifying hazards. And while it’s designed to help with hazard identification in a mining environment, one cool feature of EXAMiner is that you can easily customize it to match your own workplace and the hazards there–so it can be used in an industry and for any work area.
So let’s start learning from Brianna about this cool new training tool for hazard identification. We’ve got the video of the conversation immediately below. If you’d prefer to read, we also typed up the transcript, so just click the MORE button and start reading if you like it that way.
Also, know that we’e got a free guide to MSHA Training Requirements for you at the bottom of this article.
W. Edwards Deming first listed his 14 points for management in his book Out of the Crisis, and they ultimately went on to have a significant influence on Total Quality Management, or TQM.
We’ve created a free downloadable guide for you that lists and explains each of the fourteen points. We even left some space alongside each point so you can write your own notes.
Download the Deming’s 14 Points guide now and keep your eyes open for more similar freebies from us (such as this PDCA Cycle infographic, this DMAIC infographic, and this 7 Tools of Quality guide).
Download this free guide to the 14 points of management proposed by the famous Quality guru W. Edwards Deming.
The Seven Basic Tools of Quality are powerful tools for quality assurance issues.
Our free downloadable guide below explains each and how to use them.
Download the guide now and stay tuned for similar offerings from your friends at Convergence Training (such as this PDCA Cycle infographic, this DMAIC infographic, and this Deming’s 14 Management Points guide).
You can also read more here about the 7 tools of quality.
Get this free guide to the 7 Basic Tools of Quality, widely used in quality assurance (QA) and other continuous improvement processes.
In this article, we’re going to investigate how to help workers develop job skills through deep learning, deliberate practice, and evidence-based training methods known as desirable difficulties.
Sounds pretty exciting, no?
Well hold on to your hat, friend, because it’s more exciting than just that.
We’re going to do this by talking with Dr. Patti Shank, one of the most informed and generous learning researchers out there, and someone from whom we’ve learned a lot about learning over time. We’ll say it below as well, but many thanks to Patti for sharing her time and knowledge with us.
You’ve got two options for taking this all in. Read the article or scroll to the bottom and watch a recorded video of our conversation.
Watch the short video below to see what some of our customers are saying about our training products and working with us.
And thanks to all the customers for the nice words. We’re pleased and honored to be working with you!
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If you’d like a quick and easy way to get a little familiar with DMAIC from Six Sigma, well, we’ve created a free DMAIC infographic for you!
DMAIC is often used in Six Sigma. To learn more, check out our online Six Sigma training course.
Just click the download button to get a copy for yourself. And if you’re interested in this DMAIC infographic, you may also want to check out our free PDCA infographic, our free 7 Tools of Quality guide, and our Deming’s 14 Points of Management guide.
Click the button below to download your own copy of this DMAIC infographic, and stay tuned for more similar stuff from us.
Download this free infographic explaining the popular Design, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control (DMAIC) process commonly used in Six Sigma.
We’ve created a cool (and free, which is cool in itself!) Plan-Do-Check-Act Cycle infographic for you and it’s just a little further down this page. Exciting, no?
You can learn even more about the P-D-C-A cycle here, and if you’re interested in this P-D-C-A infographic, you may also be interested in our similar (and also free!) DMAIC infographic, our 7 Tools of Quality Guide, and our Deming’s 14 Points guide.
Click the button below to download your own copy of this PDCA infographic, and stay tuned for more similar stuff from us.
Download this free infographic of the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle commonly used for quality control, project planning, and continuous improvement.