National Safety Month Underway
Before we get too far into the month, I wanted to make note of the fact that June is National Safety Month. I didn’t know that at the time I started planning the Third Quarter issue of The MHEDA Journal, but it works out well because we’re hitting on the safety theme in this issue.
Two members of the MHEDA-NET safety group, David Hermann of Wisconsin Lift Truck (Brookfield, WI) and Rudy Cuevas of Associated Material Handling (Carol Stream, IL), agreed to write articles for this issue. Safety is a topic that we’ve often focused on in the magazine in passing, but it had been a while since we’d done a focus on it. Thanks to David and Rudy for their help in doing so.
I don’t want to give away too many of the details before their articles are published on July 15, but I will say that Rudy’s article about creating a safety policy is a must-read for anybody looking to develop rules and regulations to promote safety at their distributorship. David’s article talks about an often underrated piece of any successful safety program–the employee. All the rules and regulations in the world can be put in place but won’t make a difference if the employees choose to ignore them. How can that be avoided? Read the upcoming issue of The MHEDA Journal to find out.
