Safe Happens: Recent Episodes
Work Wear Safety Shoes
Every worker deserves to be safe and happy on the job. Safe Happens discusses tools, techniques, best practices and ideas to create a workplace culture that focuses on safety and wellness.
Continuing on the idea of helping you create a Safety Culture within yoru company, in this episode, Matthew Hudson focuses on the Best Way to Conduct an Investigation when a recordable incident occurs.
Companies who have worked with Work Wear Safety have reduced their number of recordable incidents by as much as 85%.
- Why Investigations Matter
- The Right Approach
- All Behavrios is Rewarded
Today's worker wants more from their employer - they want the company to Give Back in a way that says it truly cares.
Listen as Matthew Hudson, CXO of Work Wear Safety, interviews Sarah Ragone from Hire Heroes USA and explains the need for great companies to have a partnership like theirs.
In this episode, learn:
- What is a social conscience?
- Why is it important?
- What is Hire Heroes USA and how have they helped over 85,000 veterans find employment after leaving their military service?
- How can your company use social conscience to keep workers happy on the job?
The rise in recordable incidents at companies means tis time for you to consider adding metatarsal guards and puncture resistance to your safety boot program.
Listen as Matthew Hudson, CXO of Work Wear Safety and member of the ASTM Committee for Safety Standards in Footwear breaks down these two safety features and why you should consider them in your program.
Ever sit at yoru desk with your head in your hands wondering what these people just don't "get it?"
You have spent hours trying to get them to be safe and focus on safety, but your company just can't get a safety culture going.
Listen as Matthew Hudson, CXO of Work Wear Safety, breaks down why you are struggling. Using concepts from his book, Culturrific!, Matt will explain how a culture develops and identify the most common mistake people make when trying to chnage their culture.
Ever wonder why some safety shoes fit better than others
- even in the same brand?
Listen as Matthew Hudson, CXO of Work Wear Safety, explains how to get the best fit in a safety shoe by understanding how they fit and what all those numbers and letter mean on the box.
Listen as Matthew Hudson, CXO of Work Wear Safety breaks down how to make the safety boots in your program last longer.
With rising costs of work boots and the subsidy budgets not changing, what can you do to get more for your money?
Learn how the different constructions can make all the difference.
Listen to our hosts Matthew and Brooke as they discuss the Top 3 Mistakes Managers make when issuing their vouchers for the safety footwear programs. Joining them is Jerry Alexander to share his experience in issues employees experience when they try to redeem your company vouchers in stores.
Question from a listener came in - How Do I reduce the number of returns and exchanges on my online program? Listen as Matt and Brooke, along with special guest Natasha Martinez as they break it down for you. You might be surprised by their answers.
Each year, you are asking yourself "is my subsidy amount right for my employee's needs?" And this podcast was created to help you answer that question.
Listen as Brooke and Matt share the sen diagram of decision and discuss the types of contractions of safety boots and how they relate to the cost.
The truth is for most safety footwear programs, it is simply seen as an expense - a subtraction from the boom line of the company. In this episode, Brooke and Matthew discuss how to craft a safety footwear program that ADDs to the bottom line profitability of your company. Making you a heart with the employees and with the CFO.
The ruth is, most safety footwear program drive everyone crazy. In this episode, we give you the Top 3 Mistakes people make in their safety footwear programs that bring on the crazy.
The most important part of fitting a safety shoe is that you want the widest part of the foot in the widest part of the shoe. Listen as Brooke and Matthew break down the proper way to fit your safety shoes for maximum comfort and durability.
In this episode, Matt and Brooke break down the difference between an SD (Static Dissipative) shoe and an ESD (Electrostatic Dissipative) shoe. They also delve into Electrical Hazard and Conductive footwear as well.
Steve Campbell, Director of Safety and Wellness for Work Wear Safe joins Matt and Brooke to discuss 6 Tips to perform a successful and effective hazard and wellness assessment of your workplace.
At WorkWearSafe.com, we know you want to be the kind of safety professional that keeps your workers protected while keeping your company profitable. That means having a safety footwear program that keeps everyone safe, productive, and happy on the job.
The problem? It’s a big job juggling all those details and keeping up with all those moving parts. Complaints coming from every side can leave you frustrated.
It shouldn’t be that way. We believe a safety shoe program should make everyone’s life better – including yours. It should add to your company’s value, not be a drain of money and man hours.
Listen as hosts Dr. Matthew Hudson and Brooke Swadley give you the 8 Questions you should ask before you select a safety shoe partner.
And for more info, you can download a PDF of the Topi 2 workwearsafe.com/podcast
In July 2021, the ASTM finally passed a standard for measuring slip resistance in a safety shoe. Listen as Matt, a member of the ASTM committee that authored the standard, and Brooke break down what you need to know.