SAFETY & ENVIRONMENTAL

Safety in a fleet maintenance and repair shop is critical to success and can quickly affect your bottom line if ignored.

When in a clean, well-maintained shop and seeing clean, well-maintained trucks, it speaks volumes about the management of the company.

That environment tells clients that they are doing business with a company that cares and demonstrates professionalism. It tells its employees that their owners and management care about them, and it shows insurance companies that they have chosen the right client to insure.

When safety policies and procedures are followed, in almost every case that company’s insurance rates are reduced, as accidents and injuries are fewer.

For a Fleet Manager, the importance of knowing how to find information in the “Title 49, CFR, Transportation” manual, such as hazardous material handling, OSHA regulations, waste stream information, MSDS procedures, and Lock Out/Tag Out, etc. is critical to successful shop management and for the safety of the staff.

If any of the policies and procedures in the CFRs are not in place and your company experiences a visit from DOT or from OSHA, you are in jeopardy of realizing fines and additional inspections.

However, when you manage a clean safe shop, have the required policies and procedures in place, and present a well-maintained facility and fleet, your worries are greatly diminished.

We can mentor your Fleet Manager(s) so that when you become subject to an inspection, these areas have been addressed, and will point out to any inspector that you have made the effort to put the required policies and procedures in place.

From CFRs, “Right to Know” certification, Hazardous Material Management and Disposal, MSDS Inventories, to a practiced Lock Out/Tag Out program, we can provide the proper information and recommend the necessary materials you will need to pass an inspection when it happens.