A safety conscience must be exercised
August 1, 2003 By Jay Johnston
Call them gremlins, shoulder angels or devils, leprechauns, fairies or elves – it is the weight our conscience that determines the choices we make every day.
Read More Safety leadership must be challenged
July 1, 2003 By LP Gas
Many times our employees wait in need of important safety validation, information and inspiration. Meanwhile, it takes a multi-metaphoric two-by-four across the head before most leaders open up to progressive possibilities or management practices.
Read More Federal regulations just keep coming
July 1, 2003 By LP Gas
Even this Republican administration is creating new regulations for hazmat carriers and others in the propane business.
Read More Paperwork finishes the job
June 1, 2003 By LP Gas
When it comes to safety, documentation is a labor of an unloved task. We hate the task because we hate the process. We hate the process because it feels like a waste of time and duplicate effort. There are times when we feel enough is enough.
Read More Just the facts – finally
June 1, 2003 By LP Gas
Safety is a relative term. Don’t believe it? Try disputing the catchy phrase that competing energy vendors use to lure prospective customers: "Go propane, go boom."
Read More Let’s share the load for security
March 1, 2003 By LP Gas
A March 2002 incident involving a Kentucky propane distributor provided a grim reminder of the security challenges that still face the bulk logistics sector.
Read More The game of safety poker
February 1, 2003 By LP Gas
My fascination with card playing began as I watched the TV show Maverick. I learned the skills of pokeralways included banter and usually ended with the phrase “My old Pappy used to say . . .†just asMaverick would gather up the pot.
Read More The integrity of safety
January 1, 2003 By LP Gas
Without integrity, any safety success is just a flash in the pan.
Read More Recognize the signs of safety
December 1, 2002 By LP Gas
I confess right here that I am old enough to remember seeing Burma Shave signs along the highway from the back of our Rambler station wagon. Boy, that hurt to admit. Every few hundred feet an ironic saying or poem would whiz by, line by line, until the last sign, the closer, would always read: Burma Shave.
Read More The practice of safety is just that
September 1, 2002 By LP Gas
Many times managers view the issue of safety through rose-coloredglasses. What we can’t see often looks pretty good, in a compromising sortof way.
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