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The Doctor Is In
Let’s begin our discussion by asking you to answer the following questions about your damage prevention team: 1. Do you want your team members to be mediocre? 2. Do you want your team members to be complacent? 3. Do you want your team members to be average? (Remember average is the best of the least [...]
Publisher’s Perspective: Fall 2011
Recently while working with a group of stakeholders, I was reminded by one of the attitudes at the table of a valuable lesson I learned many years ago. I hadn’t been in class too long and one day our professor gave us a pop quiz. I was a fairly good student, had studied my assignments [...]
The Master of Zing
The news media’s announcement that the U. S. Postal Service is in trouble wasn’t a huge surprise to most of us. The world has shifted; we are using email so that business is down for the postal service. E-mail is immediate and doesn’t require postage. Perhaps it has the greatest cost of all, the cost [...]
Me and Dillard
Strange as it may seem in today’s world of bicycle helmets and knee pads, by my seventh birthday I had been given a Stevens .410 shotgun. Of course, it wasn’t close to being a new gun, but to me it was the one that tamed the west. There was a little patch of timber across [...]
Ohio Damage Prevention Summit
What you need to remember about the frustrations of the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new…starting right here and right now. Water, gas, electricity and telecommunications are vital to [...]
O.U.P.S. Lobbyist Describes How a Bill Becomes Law
The role of a lobbyist is to use communication, education and persuasion to convince legislators to vote in a way that favors the interest he represents. For nearly 40 years, Ric Oxender has been bringing information to members of the Ohio Congress that they might not receive otherwise. His expertise and knowledge are currently being used by the Ohio Utilities Protection Service (O.U.P.S.) as they work to make changes to Ohio’s one-call law.
Me and Dillard
Even if it wasn’t an uncommonly cold and snowy winter, going swimming in the Hood-N-Pile in the middle of February might seem a bit extreme to the uninitiated. Aunt Beulah always told me that those older kids were going to keep me in trouble and that I needed to find kids my own age to [...]
Reds Opening Day Parade
The Ohio Utilities Protection Service, the Southwest Ohio Utility Safety Council, Indiana 811 and Kentucky 811 kicked off National Safe Digging Month at the Cincinnati Reds Opening Day Parade on March 31st!
Trenching and Excavation Safety Part four: Protective Systems
This is the fourth and final article covering the basics of trenching and excavation safety. To recap the previous articles: Part 1 discussed the role of the “Competent Person” on the job site. Part 2 presented the importance of following the “General Requirements” section of OSHA’s 29 CFR 1926 Subpart P – Excavations. Part 3 [...]
The Doctor is in
As you know, elephants are large animals. Consequently, they are readily seen when in the room. Yet, while they can bring pleasure to those of us who visit them in their habitats, they can also be very destructive. What do people see when they look at you?
