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Leading Safely™ | A HazTek Podcast is dedicated to engaging with our listeners through a diverse range of environmental, health, and safety topics. Podcast hosts Chris Bellina, HazTek’s logistics manager and Matt Clark, HazTek’s Operations Manager/Safety Professional, team up to tackle hot safety topics, interview experts in the safety industry, answer listener questions, and highlight opportunities for those in the safety field. The podcast is designed for all types of safety professionals, as well as for anyone interested in learning about safety in a new and interesting way. What makes Leading Safely™ | A HazTek Podcast unique is that our co-host Matt is a safety professional with years of in-the-field experience, while Chris, who is safety adjacent, does not have a safety background — together they both have compelling safety questions that we all want answered. It makes for a great dynamic and an interesting listen for people in the safety industry, people looking to get into the safety industry, and people who just want to learn more about safety in general. HazTek is a professional safety services organization that employs 300+ safety professionals across North America and throughout the world. New episodes of Leading Safely™ | A HazTek Podcast come out twice a month and listeners can send in their questions to podcast@haztekinc.com. Listeners can also visit our website to learn more at https://www.haztekinc.com.

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Leading Safely™ | A HazTek Podcast is dedicated to engaging with our listeners through a diverse range of environmental, health, and safety topics. Podcast hosts Chris Bellina, HazTek’s logistics manager and Matt Clark, HazTek’s Operations Manager/Safety Professional, team up to tackle hot safety topics, interview experts in the safety industry, answer listener questions, and highlight opportunities for those in the safety field. The podcast is designed for all types of safety professionals, as well as for anyone interested in learning about safety in a new and interesting way. What makes Leading Safely™ | A HazTek Podcast unique is that our co-host Matt is a safety professional with years of in-the-field experience, while Chris, who is safety adjacent, does not have a safety background — together they both have compelling safety questions that we all want answered. It makes for a great dynamic and an interesting listen for people in the safety industry, people looking to get into the safety industry, and people who just want to learn more about safety in general. HazTek is a professional safety services organization that employs 300+ safety professionals across North America and throughout the world. New episodes of Leading Safely™ | A HazTek Podcast come out twice a month and listeners can send in their questions to podcast@haztekinc.com. Listeners can also visit our website to learn more at https://www.haztekinc.com.

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English

Episodes

Herb Strong | Preparing for OSHA Inspections

11/15/2023
During this very informative episode, Herb Strong, HazTek’s Client Services Manager (and former OSHA compliance officer), discusses the steps that safety professionals should take when preparing for an OSHA inspection. He goes over the various types of OSHA violations — de minimus, other-than-serious, serious, and willful — and what companies can do to avoid these violations. Herb has been working at HazTek for 12 years and has over 50 years of experience in safety. Before working with us, Herb was the Principal Owner of Strong Consulting services as well as an OSHA compliance officer — making him an expert on this episode’s topic. Because of Herb’s prior experience as an OSHA compliance officer, he offers our audience inside information on best practices when going through an OSHA inspection. He recommends that safety professionals keep all safety records readily accessible and to take advantage of any safety trainings that are available. Herb also explains why it’s beneficial to always follow OSHA and site safety regulations — not just during OSHA inspections.

Duration:00:34:56

Steven Rank | Safety Standards vs. Safety Compliance Directives

11/1/2023
Steven Rank, Executive Director of Safety & Health for the Ironworkers International, joins Chris Bellina and Matt Clark on Episode 14. Steven has years of experience as an ironworker and is a member of Iron Workers Local #10 in Kansas City, Missouri. During the episode, Steven discusses the difference between safety standards vs. safety compliance directives. He explains that safety standards are written laws while safety compliance directives are letters about how to interpret these laws. He warns safety professionals to use caution when receiving these letters since they are not legally binding — and the interpretation can be wrong — causing safety issues that can lead to accidents. Steven shares firsthand accounts of issues that he and his team encountered after receiving safety compliance directives. Steven also talks with Matt and Chris about strategies that safety professionals can utilize when they receive safety compliance directives that do not follow safety standards. Steven encourages everyone to always follow the safety standard — and offers tips on how to do so when a supervisor or member of leadership wants to use the compliance directive instead.

Duration:00:38:25

Patti Rubnitz | Current HazTek Career Opportunities

10/15/2023
Patti Rubnitz, HazTek’s Senior Corporate Recruiter, joins Chris Bellina on Episode 13. During the episode, Patti discusses current HazTek career opportunities in the northeast region, the greater Virginia area, and the Charlotte, North Carolina, area. She explains what these open positions entail and what the requirements are for obtaining these jobs. Patti and Chris also highlight the many advantages of working with HazTek, including great pay, job stability, medical, dental, and prescription benefits, company 401K matching, growth opportunities, travel opportunities, and many more. Patti encourages anyone interested in a career in safety to reach out to her (prubnitz@haztekinc.com) or visit HazTek’s career page to see all of our current openings: https://careers.haztekinc.com Patti has been working at HazTek since 2011. In her role as Senior Corporate Recruiter, she seeks out talented safety and corporate professionals to join our growing team — which now consists of over 300 employees. She has a background in human resources, management, and workplace safety, with over 25 years of combined experience.

Duration:00:26:31

David Myrick | Solving the Worker Shortage for the Construction Industry

10/1/2023
David Myrick, Senior Director of Field Strategy & EHS for Cooper Electrical Construction Company joins Chris Bellina and Matt Clark on the latest episode of our podcast. David has worked for Cooper Electrical for 10 years and started at the company as the Senior Director for Corporate Safety before transitioning to his current role in May of 2022. During this episode, David discusses the skilled worker shortage in the construction industry and offers his thoughts on when this shortage started and the reasons behind it. He provides strategies for remedying this issue — including giving workers who are not as experienced the chance to learn from veteran employees. David also talks with Chris and Matt about the generational differences in the workforce and how each generation values working. This episode is a valuable listen for people at all levels in the construction and safety industries to David’s extensive experience in these fields.

Duration:00:50:33

Kris Corbett | Injury Prevention on Construction Sites

9/15/2023
During the episode, Kris and our team talk about the correlation between workplace injuries and emotional well-being. If workers are not feeling their best, they will not work at their best — leaving them at risk for getting hurt. Additionally, Kris offers tips that everyone can follow to stay proactive against workplace injuries. She also discusses how workers can prevent on-the-job injuries and how construction workers should think of themselves as “industrial athletes.” She explains how athletes would never play a sport without stretching and hydrating before a game and neither should construction workers. Kris has over 20 years of experience working in Wellness, Safety, and Injury Prevention creating innovative and effective products and services for various companies. She is a nationally recognized speaker and has been featured at the National Ergonomic Conference, National Constructor Conference, ASSE National Conference, and CURT National Conference.

Duration:00:38:23

Matt Joens | Wearable Technology for the Construction Industry

9/1/2023
Matt Joens is a client executive for MākuSafe, a safety technology company formed by a powerful team of software, hardware, and data engineers. During the episode, Matt and our HazTek hosts discuss how digital technology has significantly advanced the functions and expectations of personal protective equipment (PPE) and how beneficial it is for construction workers and safety professionals to include wearable technology in their kit. Matt describes MākuSafe’s digital PPE device that is worn on the upper arm and records temperature, air quality, ergonomics, and sound — in real time — and results in safer and healthier workers. Matt also cites success stories from clients who, after using digital PPE, have found that the technology and analytics have helped their sites become safer overall. Matt’s years of safety experience and passion for his work make this episode extremely educational for all our listeners.

Duration:00:32:21

Chris Bellina | Back to School Safety

8/28/2023
Chris Bellina is solo today for a special mini episode of our podcast. In honor of Back to School month, Chris goes over school safety tips for children and parents. He provides transportation advice, general tips, and cautionary tales for students based on his own experiences as both a child and parent. So, whether your child rides the bus, bikes, or walks to school — or, if he or she is in the classroom or out on the playground — there is helpful insight for you. Keeping our children safe in school is so important, which is why we wanted to offer this bonus episode for our listeners who have children heading back to school in the coming days. It’s a great episode to listen to with your kids, so be sure to check it out. You can also check out our social media post on the subject: https://www.facebook.com/HazTekInc/posts/pfbid0j3DQkATDALPEazinr82VHNdsCA7CCtKHP8UijyVcNmbZ8pgjAfQGc2LXvKxyFbc7l

Duration:00:13:37

Laynnea Myles | Felt Leadership in the Safety Industry

8/15/2023
Laynnea Myles, Assistant Vice President of Environmental, Health, and Safety at L’Oréal, joins Chris Bellina and Matt Clark on this episode. Laynnea is an EHS professional who motivates, energizes, and empowers people to shift their mindset from EHS being viewed as a priority to it being viewed as a value. During the episode, Laynnea explains “felt leadership” and how it helps every worker, from top to bottom. She discusses the many benefits of having members of senior leadership being engaged with every member of their team. Laynnea also talks with Chris and Matt about the strategies she uses at L’Oréal to make the project sites safer and offers advice for leadership members — including using the “milk carton test.” Her years of experience in the safety field make this an incredibly insightful episode.

Duration:00:50:26

Jim Ellis | ESG (Environmental Social Governance) in the Safety Industry

8/1/2023
Jim Ellis, a Senior Global Executive with over 40 years of global leadership experience, joins Chris Bellina and Matt Clark on the podcast. Jim is an industry expert for engineering and data centers who started his company, J Ellis Consulting Enterprises LLC, in 2022 and works as an Executive Associate Principal Consultant at HazTek. Prior to joining HazTek, Ellis spent 33 years at DuPont in various executive and strategic roles, and most recently, he served as Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President, Data Center Construction. Jim discusses ESG and how it affects safety leadership. Jim, Chris, and Matt have an engaging conversation about all aspects of ESG, from the consequences of safety leaders not utilizing an ESG model on project sites to the differences in safety regulations in countries around the world. Jim brings valuable knowledge and insight to the episode from his 40+ years of global experience — making this an episode that you won’t want to miss.

Duration:00:47:36

Fred Miller | Electrical System Technology for Mission Critical Facilities

7/15/2023
Fred Miller is the Vice Present of Business Development for Cyber Sciences, a company that provides precision time synchronization and event recording instrumentation for electrical systems. Fred brings insight about this exciting technology and informs our listeners on how extremely helpful it is for critical facilities. By using this device, the facility workers can know exactly what happened during a power outage — and what they can do to recover quickly. Matt, Chris, and Fred discuss this technology in detail, including what makes it different than other devices in the mission critical field. Fred also discusses the evolution of the data center industry since using this technology, as well as the consequences of having electrical problems in a facility.

Duration:00:35:27

Ray Stupienski | Keeping Kids' Sports Safe — Both Physically and Emotionally

7/1/2023
HazTek’s Ray Stupienski joins Chris Bellina and Matt Clark to discuss safety in youth sports — both physically and emotionally. They talk about who should be coaching youth sports and tips for parents with children playing sports. Ray brings his first-hand experience and insight to the conversation, giving listeners valuable advice to make youth sports safer. Ray joined HazTek as the National Strategic Accounts Operations Manager in 2013 and is now a Health and Safety consultant who works on improving HazTek employee engagement and experience. Additionally, Ray has years of coaching youth and teenage baseball, football, and basketball — as well as experience as a certified high school football official and a certified youth and teenage Cal Ripken/Babe Ruth/American League umpire.

Duration:00:54:58

Andy Pero | Helping Military Members Transition into Civilian Careers

6/15/2023
Andy Pero, Account Executive for Orion Talent, joins Matt and Chris on this podcast episode to discuss military members transitioning into civilian careers. Andy brings insight into the process that veterans go through to start a new career out of the military. They also discuss resources that current or former military members can utilize if they are thinking about making this transition, and how Orion can help. Orion Talent is a recruiting company that focuses on helping members of the military transition into civilian careers. Listeners can send in their safety questions for future podcasts to podcast@haztekinc.com. Listeners can also visit our website to learn more at https://www.haztekinc.com.

Duration:00:36:28

Robert Smith | The Human Connection in Safety

6/1/2023
Robert Smith, Director of Environmental, Health, and Safety at Prime Data Centers joins Matt and Chris on this podcast episode to discuss the importance of making a human connection in the safety and construction industry. Robert talks about his experience working in safety and how making connections with the people on project sites can enhance the overall safety culture of any organization. Listeners can send in their safety questions for future podcasts to podcast@haztekinc.com. Listeners can also visit our website to learn more at https://www.haztekinc.com.

Duration:00:41:50

Matt Clark and Chris Bellina | Introducing our Hosts

6/1/2023
In the pilot episode of Leading Safely™ | A HazTek Podcast, co-hosts Matt Clark and Chris Bellina introduce themselves, HazTek, and Leading Safely™ — while detailing what listeners can expect from future episodes. In addition, Matt and Chris discuss hot safety topics and provide an overview of the kinds of industry experts we will be meeting along the way. Listeners can send in their safety questions for future podcasts to podcast@haztekinc.com. Listeners can also visit our website to learn more at https://www.haztekinc.com.

Duration:00:18:17

Alex Willis | Diversity & Inclusion in the Safety Industry

6/1/2023
Alex Willis, CEO of Leadership Surge, joins Matt and Chris to discuss Diversity & Inclusion in the construction industry — as well as in other working environments. Alex brings a new perspective that challenges how people currently view diversity. He also provides insight on how workers can expand their mindsets to make work environments even more inclusive and fulfilling for everyone. Listeners can send in their safety questions for future podcasts to podcast@haztekinc.com. Listeners can also visit our website to learn more at https://www.haztekinc.com.

Duration:00:41:07