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Your Name: A Sign of Quality

I’m touring Paris, France this week. I don’t speak French but there seems to be somebody around all the time who speaks English, so I’m getting by. I went on a tour today of a French market and French food purveyors. Our guide, Wendy, taught us about meats, cheeses, breads and produce. She told us […]

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Do You Have Social Courage?

In his recent column in the New York Times, David Brooks wrote about people with β€œsocial courage.” People with β€œsocial courage” happen to the world. Let me share a few things he described: People with β€œsocial courage” are extroverted as they connect.Β  My sense of extroverted connectors is that they work within a group well.Β  […]

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Quality is a Key Component of Safety

As pallet manufacturers, it is important to consider the role we have in the safety of the public. Once the pallets leave our plants, our customers load them up with a great deal of weight. They ship them on trucks. They are handled with forklifts. If you visit stores like Home Depot or a Sam’s […]

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Do What You Know is Best

The other side of knowing what to do is doing what you know. In safety, we average three accidents a week. Most occur when someone failed to follow the defined safe practice. Rare is it that the hurt employee says that he didn’t know better. Disappoint a customer with poor quality? We knew better. Disrupt […]

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