Mike Caro, CUSP

Field-Level Hazard Recognition Training That Works

April 26, 2016 | Mike Caro, CUSP | Safety Management, Leadership Development, Worksite Safety

As a safety professional or operations leader in your organization, one of your primary responsibilities is to ensure your employees can and do complete their work safely. People don’t want to get hurt and you don’t want them to. With that as a given, the question then becomes, how do you accomplish this? You can’t […]

Distribution Switching Safety

July 14, 2015 | Mike Caro, CUSP

Lineworkers face no shortage of hazards during the course of a day, but switching is among those that give me the most pause. Opening and closing circuits, tying circuits together, breaking loads, transferring loads, tying or breaking substations – if any of these procedures go wrong, the results can be catastrophic. And while it always […]

Behavior-Based Safety: What’s the Verdict?

October 16, 2014 | Mike Caro, CUSP | Safety Management, Leadership Development

From its infancy in the late 1970s and early 1980s until now, behavior-based safety (BBS) has been a source of conflict in the safety profession, among company and union leadership, and even between practitioners. Nonetheless, after 30-plus years of use at companies that run the gamut of industries in dozens of countries around the world, […]

Distributed Generation Safety for Lineworkers

July 15, 2014 | Mike Caro, CUSP

Distributed generation (DG) is also referred to as on-site generation, dispersed generation, embedded generation, decentralized generation, decentralized energy, distributed energy and district energy. Its definition varies slightly from source to source, but for lineworkers, DG is anything that generates power, is connected to the grid and is not part of the normal generating system of […]

Traffic Safety for Lineworkers

November 14, 2013 | Mike Caro, CUSP | Tailgate Topics

One of the most dangerous tasks lineworkers perform has nothing to do with heights or electricity. Thousands of people die in the United States each year due to traffic accidents that occur in street and highway work zones, and there are always some lineworkers numbered among those fatalities. These accidents are violent, tragic and almost […]

Integrity and Respect: Two of Our Most Important Tools

April 17, 2012 | Mike Caro, CUSP | Leadership Development

Few things are more difficult to establish or easier to lose than integrity. As safety professionals, if our workers, bosses and peers see us as people of integrity, we can ask things of them with a very real expectation that they will buy in, comply, participate and change. The level to which they will do […]