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Rick Tobey, CUSP

Rick Tobey, CUSP

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Formal vs. On-the-Job Training

| Rick Tobey, CUSP |
I have been doing a lot of training and evaluation work over the past few years, and I have started to notice a trend. The workers who have had a formal in-depth training experience have a better perspective about the theories behind why they are performing certain tasks. Workers that are trained on the job […]
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PPE The Last Line of Defense

| Rick Tobey, CUSP |
If you consider personal safety equipment inconvenient and uncomfortable to wear, you may want to consider the alternatives. When you cannot engineer, administratively eliminate or guard against a hazard, personal protective equipment is the only thing between you and serious injury. It is, in other words, the last line of defense utility workers have from […]
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Making Safe Choices

| Rick Tobey, CUSP |
In the high-risk world of utility operations, safety depends greatly on the choices that are made at all levels of an organization. The decisions that are made as to how we will handle a particular situation determine how safe everyone involved will be. In utility operations especially, when a situation occurs that is governed by […]
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