Well, we have come to the end of this particular road. I just want each of you to know how very much I have enjoyed your company these past however many years.
Fast-forward to the present day and it seems like grace is in shorter supply than any time that I can recall (I don’t go further back than 1960, so there are limits to my insight), so this seemed to be exactly the right note to play before I finish up blathering in this space.
As far back as I can recall, I have been an enthusiastic reader. My favorite (or at least most memorable) experiences in grade school revolved around the times the Scholastic Book Service came to school.
While I think I knew intrinsically that tamper-resistant and tamper-proof were not terms to be used interchangeably, I had never really given it a great deal of thought.
Rounds, tours, tracers. These are all time-honored approaches to monitoring conditions in the environment, but how are folks using those approaches to verify the effectiveness/sustainability of their compliance efforts?
How do we as safety and facilities professionals get better about asking for, and accepting, assistance from above? I’ve listened to many frustrated individuals ask about leveraging compliance in the field when things are not quite perfect, and I (almost) invariably ask them back the question:...
Moving on through the rest of the list (we’ll finish this up next week), again no surprises if you’ve been paying attention to the survey process over the last decade or so (this really started to gain traction round about ’09). I do wish I had a better sense of what the...
Actually, that title is a bit misleading because, truth be told, the most frequently cited conditions in the physical environment as collated by our friends from Chicago over the past year or so are pretty much the ones they’ve been for as far back as I can remember (which is far enough).