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The Case for Construction or Oil and Gas Industry Pilot Training Programs
Do you wake up some mornings wondering how you are going to squeeze a dollar out of a dime with the “kids” you have working for you? Did old Frank, Jack and Jesse all retire in the same year leaving...
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Melinda’s Top Nine Training Goals
I love, love, love football and I am pretty fond of analogies. So, in light or our discussion last week about using the “pilot” approach to getting a training program off the ground, I thought we might...
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Like Golf, You Can Improve Your Supervisory Handicap
Improving Your Supervisory Handicap “Improve your short game.” That’s golf-speak for chopping strokes off your handicap. In supervisory-speak it’s related to cutting down the number of times you have...
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Online Training versus Face-to-Face Safety Training
In the last five years or so, in talking with friends employed by companies where accidents have happened, someone always says “Hindsight is 20-20.” I understand how this saying can unfortunately be...
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Hey, I Need To Get My Guys Operator Qualified!
Who Uses AYUDA’s Operator Qualification (OQ) Services? We traditionally receive four different types of calls for operator qualification. Operators: For those operators who do not have in-house...
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Momma’s Got Some Mad Management Skills!
As the mother of now grown children, I found myself reflecting, more so than most Mother’s Day weeks, on my babies. My mind kept wandering back to those tiny fingers so I decided on Mother’s Day; I...
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Like Water for Project Management
I absolutely love water. I always have, as far back as I can remember. The lake, the ocean, the creek, a good ole swimming hole, a hot tub, a great waterpark (YES!), the tank (a term used for a huge...
View ArticleLet’s Chat About DOT Pipeline Integrity Compliance
Is your pipeline operation safe and in compliance with the DOT requirements? Are you DOT audit ready? If not, do you have your “audit” piggy bank ready and waiting to write that big check or worse be...
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Business Growing Pains
Growing pains. Do you remember these as a kid? I sure do. I was an avid softball player . . . back in the days when we actually played outside. I was awakened many a night with intense growing pain,...
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Two Sides to Decline in Gas Prices
I’m guess I’m not really like many in the US that are applauding the low gas prices at the pump. Since I work in the oil and gas industry I am watching, first hand (again), unrest in our industry. This...
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