Safe, Efficient, Profitable: A Worker Safety Podcast
Joe and Jen Allen of Allen Safety LLC take their combined 40+ years of worker safety, OSHA, EPA, production, sanitation, and engineering experience in Manufacturing Plants including Harvest Plants/Packers, Case Readies and Further Processing Plants, Food Production Plants, Feed Mills, Grain Elevators, Bakeries, Farms, Feed Lots, and Petro-Chemical and bring you their top methods for identifying risk, preventing injuries, conquering the workload, auditing, managing emergencies and catastrophic events, and working through OSHA citations. They're breaking down real safety opportunities, safety citations, and emergency situations from real locations, and discussing realistic solutions that can actually be implement based on their personal experiences spending 40+ weeks in the field every year since 2001. Joe and Jen are using all of that experience to provide a fresh outlook on worker safety by providing honest, (no sponsors here!) and straight forward, easy to understand safety coaching with actionable guidance to move your safety program forward in a way that provides tangible results.
Episodes
89 episodes
Eye Injury Risks Safety Glasses Aren't Addressing
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PSM & Refrigeration Trends Reshaping The Industry
In this episode of Safe, Efficient, Profitable, we break down the top three Process Safety Management (PSM) trends we’re seeing across industrial ammonia refrigeration facilities — and why they matter. Episode details below!Allen Safety ...
Sanitation's Top Danger Zones (And What To Do About Them)
In this episode we dive into what we believe to be sanitation's top risks. As always, these are one take, so they're raw with no scripts, and no idea what the other host will say. We hope you enjoy, including the brief detour into J...
Paper to Production: Why "Compliant" LOTO Fails In The Field
This month we’re tackling one of the most cited OSHA topics out there — Lockout/Tagout (LOTO). If your company has a program that checks all of the audit boxes, but your employees are still having injuries, this episode explains why.⚙️ ...
Feed Mill Safety: Check These On Your Next Safety Inspection
A good part of our career has been spent in ag-business/agribusiness operations, with a huge part of them being at feed mills- for both day and night shifts. This episode covers a few big ticket items that we routinely see. This lis...
These 5 Chemical Hazards Are Anything But Basic 🧪
Chemical safety: sounds straightforward, right? You’ve got your SDS, PPE, and eyewash stations. But what happens when your team mixes, sprays, or supercharges those chemicals in ways the manufacturer never imagined? With a CHMM on the mic...
The Battle Between Food & Worker Safety: Pathogens Vs. PPE
Welcome to the cage match no one talks about—but everyone in food and meat production lives through. This week, Joe and Jen are tackling the heavyweight showdown between two giants in every facility: Worker Safety vs. Food Safety. Who tak...
Preventing the Collapse of Safety & PSM Programs: What Domino Starts it All?
Allen Safety takes a deep dive into SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) reviews, the blurry overlap of responsibility between teams, and why most documentation isn’t as airtight—or as collaborative—as it should be. The hosts challenge listeners ...
Most Facilities Underestimate This Key Safety Risk #safetytraining #safety
Does your facility use this tool that creates over-looked safety risks? Episode Summary:In this episode of Safe, Efficient, Profitable: A Worker Safety Podcast, Joe and Jen Allen put a spotlight om an overlooked source of work...
Hot Work Toolbox Talk, But Make It 🔥 The Hot Work Safety Risks You're Not Addressing
In this episode we're picking the top hot work safety risks that we've encountered over our careers that can create the perfect storm for a fire event during hot work activities, with luck playing a major role in why some buildings are still st...
Farm, Feed Lot & Feed Mill Safety: More Than Animal Handling & Moving Trailers
Working at Farms, feed lots, and feed mills. They are absolutely an "if you know you know" type work place, which can create some risks if that person becomes a new hire! In this episode, Joe and Jen skip right over some of the more "trad...
#72 Electrical Safety: A Shockingly Fresh Take On Training, Programs & Inspections
We've all seen the boiler-plate electrical safe work practice & electrical awareness training. This isn't that. In this episode, we're challenging your program, what's covered in training, who gets training, and even your routin...
Trending Safety, EHS & PSM Risks Managers Must Mitigate in 2025
Where will the top safety risks and threats fall in 2025? Joe and Jen throw out their predictions for 2025. Let us know in the comments what your predictions are! 1. The Continuation of Key 2024 Trends into 2025The ...
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2024 Safety Wrap-Up: Top Safety Failures, Trends & Solutions
Join us for this 2024 worker safety trend wrap-up, where we're discussing the top worker safety gaps and opportunities we personally saw ourselves in the field as safety experts. Is this reviewing OSHA's list from Sept 2024? No. Is ...
The Cost of Personal Agendas May Be Safety: BONUS Episode
This video is intended for educational purposes. Solutions offered are not designed to take the place of an attorney, career advisor, or medical professional, and should not be taken as legal, career, or medical advice. It is recomm...
Is Your Safety Consultant Ethical?
It seems like there are people claiming to be "experts" everywhere- so how do you spot the true experts among all the noise? This video helps you identify exactly that with some red flags and key questions to ask then next time you hire a...
#67: Is Your Safety Culture Stressing Your Employees Out?
Could something as simple as a microwave be driving up injuries at your manufacturing facility? We think it very well could be, but it goes deeper than that. It goes all the way to the culture and environment your employees are work...
#67 Safety Managers: Is it Time For A Job Change?
Its the holiday season, a dinner topic that may be brought up at a lot of tables centers around job and career changes. For safety managers, a driving force for contemplating a job starts with if they feel the company they work for doesn'...
#66: Safety Training- Are You Overpaying For What You're Getting?
In this episode, Joe and Jen dive deep into the world of training costs and provide practical insights on how to manage your facility’s training budget without sacrificing quality or compliance. From in-house vs. third-party training to hidden ...
The Real Cost of Work Place Injuries: What You're Not Calculating
In this episode, Joe and Jen cover all of the tangible costs of an injury, but dive deep into the intangible costs that injuries bring that are typically not calculated. These underlying costs can cause the start of a cycle that can end u...
Is Ergonomics A Waste of Money? #64
In this episode, Joe and Jen debate if making changes based on ergonomic evaluations are worth the money, and how to get a return on any ergo projects. If you're wondering if JHAs, JSAs, and Ergo assessments are worth the time and effort,...
What to do After A Regulatory (OSHA) Inspection: A Step by Step Guide
In this episode, Joe and Jen try to give you a step by step guide on how to manage the chaos that can be left after regulators visit your facility. What do you do next? Where do you start? It can be so overwhelming, and this episode...
SDS & Chemical Safety Toolbox IN SPANISH: Hojas de Datos de Seguridad... ¿Quién las entiende?
Esta semana tuvimos un episodio extra en español con nuestro consultor de seguridad George Mazzuca. Nos divertimos mucho haciendo esta breve capacitación sobre HAZCOM y Hojas de Datos de Seguridad (SDS). ¡Déjanos un comentario abajo y cuéntanos...
#62: Eliminating Language Barriers in Worker Safety
In this episode we welcome our good friend and employee George Mazzuca to chat about a huge potential risk in safety: miscommunication and wrong translations. George covers challenges he's personally come across in his career in the plant...
Who's Liable? Navigating Multi-Employer Work Sites: Host Employer vs Contractors #61
Episode Summary: Contractor Liability and Job Site SafetyIn this episode, Joe and Jen dive into the complexities of contractor liability and job site safety, focusing on the responsibilities and legal implications for both contractors an...