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They think they’re invulnerable. And it’s all fun and games until someone around them comes down with a deadly disease that could have been avoided. It’s all a big joke until they get their parents, grandparents, or themselves very sick with a disease they could have avoided. Safety is the exact same thing: it’s not always you that will be hurt if you ignore the guidelines. Your carelessness could cause someone else to get the disease, or someone else at work to get hurt in an avoidable accident. As much as most of us like to take pride in our work and do the best we can, none of the people reading this have a job that is worth dying over. Neither recruiting, nor making boxes, are worth your life. So, stay safe, and Stay Strong. Roy Oberg has been recruiting specifically for the cor- rugated industry for 34 years. Call him at (972) 239-3315 or visit www.obergassociates.com. G-P Names Elwart Chief Customer Officer For Consumer Products Group Atlanta, Georgia based Georgia-Pacific announced that it has named Ryan Elwart as Chief Customer Officer for the Consumer Products Group. In this newly created position, Elwart will lead a combined sales organization of both the company’s retail and commercial (GP PRO) businesses.
to begin and end every meeting with a note on ways the guys can be safer today and get home to their families in one piece. The absolutely best-case scenario is that 10 years from now we all look back at this time and think “Wow, what an overreaction!” I’m told that if that’s the message, it means the preventative measures worked and kept this virus un- der control. In the same vein, if a good safety program is in place, and is being adhered to by all members of the staff, most of the pieces involved seem unnecessary as you’re doing them. With any luck, people forget what it’s like to see a co-worker lose a finger, an arm, a leg, or maybe even their life at work. Go long enough without a safety catastrophe, and lock- out tag-out begins to seem like a waste of time. All of the certifications on the forklifts and all of the other equipment seem like a joke. Until the time someone cuts corners, and suddenly no one is laughing. Maybe you get away with it the first time you cut safety corners. You get lucky, nothing happens, and you go about your day. Maybe you keep doing it, because it worked out that one time. And it might keep working out. Until it doesn’t. It’s the same thing as these Gen-Zers out at Spring Break, ignoring orders and guidelines to social distance.
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