Lock ‘em Up!

Lock ‘em Up! This article covers how many workplace, especially forklift, incidents could be avoided if employers were more concerned with safety and less concerned about profit.

Mandatory Means Mandatory – Look it up

Mandatory Means Mandatory – Look it up. Here’s how it works. Regulations, and all the rules they reference, are mandatory. That means there is no discussion, negotiation, or choice.

Medical Fitness: Not Something You Can (or Should) Evaluate

Medical Fitness: Not Something You Can (or Should) Evaluate - operators need to be medically fit in order to operate equipment but who should evaluate that?

Mythbusting in the Forklift World

An article about common misconceptions of what is required and what is not in regards to the safe use of forklifts in the US and Canada.

No Excuses

An article about the importance and necessity of proper forklift training, which emphasizes there are no excuses for supervisors, managers, and employers who don't adhere to operator-related regulations.

No Weak Links

No Weak Links is an article addressing the importance of training Supervisors of forklift operators so that they can ensure their operators are working safely.

Old Habits Die Hard- Better Them Than You!

Old Habits Die Hard - Better Them Than You! is an article that touches on changing the mind set of experienced operators who may have bad habits.

On the Shoulders of Giants - Brenda Sheen

In 1992 after a long-term career as a city/municipal administrative employee, Brenda Sheen answered an ad for a “Girl Friday” in a local newspaper. A Girl Friday was a term commonly used to describe a part time executive assistant but Brenda, the first official employee that Colin hired, became so much more than that.

On the Shoulders of Giants - Colin Ives

“Under-promise and over-deliver” was the motto that IVES founder Colin Ives often vocalized, and always lived by. As a well-established and respected safety professional in the late 1970s, Colin saw first-hand not only the tragic consequences of little or no training among powered equipment operators but the frustration of conscientious employers who felt they had no effective way to deal with preventing them.

On the Shoulders of Giants - Epilogue

In this final installment of “tribute” articles acknowledging the contributions of key personnel in IVES’ history we are going to spread the love as it were, by paying well-deserved homage to a collective group of IVES players, past and present.