by Patti Carey | Apr 1, 2024 | News & Events, Uncategorized
Safety training has a PR problem. Rarely do you hear a worker who is enthused about scheduled safety training, either before or after attending. Why do you suppose that is? There are researchers who study how adults learn, what they like, what they don’t and...
by Patti Carey | Mar 8, 2024 | News & Events
Today is International Women’s Day. It is curious that we celebrate one half of the population on a single day, but given women’s history of oppression and the lagging rights we hold when it comes to matters of bodily autonomy and pay equity, I suppose that our own...
by Patti Carey | Sep 19, 2023 | News & Events
I was blessed to have been raised by a father who insisted that I could do whatever I wanted to do if I worked hard enough. Ride a bike, buy a horse, road trip to Florida with my best friend in an unreliable 1978 Pontiac Sunbird, work my way through an Ivy League...
by Patti Carey | Aug 23, 2023 | News & Events
This weekend we had a hummingbird crisis. One flew into our barn, which is large and has high ceilings, and could not find her way out. She flew furiously along the very highest levels of the ceiling, darting here and there as hummingbirds do. My heart raced in worry....
by Patti Carey | Aug 1, 2023 | News & Events
If you have been waiting anxiously for a screenshot up my nostrils, you’re welcome. About a month ago, I agreed to be interviewed on a safety podcast. I was in Buffalo, staying with a friend who had good WiFi, so I showed up with wet hair from my shower, in a...