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Here's my weekly update for Oct 26, 2026...
🗒️ OSHA Inspection Survival Guide: Lessons from a Safety Pro
Welcome to the Safety Consultant Show!
In this episode, Sheldon Primus is joined by Alan Gervais, Director of Safety and Compliance and author of The Practical Guide to Managing OSHA Inspections.
If you have ever felt the anxiety of an impending audit or struggled to navigate the complexities of Process Safety Management, this conversation is for you.Alan shares his incredible journey from a maintenance worker to a safety leader, including a harrowing story of an arc flash incident that led to his very first OSHA inspection.
You will learn why he decided to compile ten years of notes into a comprehensive guide designed to help employers and safety professionals take control of the inspection process.We dive deep into the nuances of CalOSHA, the importance of professional conduct during informal conferences, and practical strategies for negotiating fine reductions.
Alan also shares how he uses modern tools like AI to game plan safety strategies while maintaining the critical human element of decision-making.
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🗒️ Safety Wars 10-22-2026 Anthrax Echoes, AI Arms Races & the $380K Trench
This Oct 22, 2026 episode of *Safety Words* (Safety FM, Jim Poesl) covers suspicious letters sent to election offices, echoing the 2001 anthrax attacks, plus a Feature Story News roundup: UK websites down from a PHP vulnerability, French protest bans, Ohio's contentious governor race, and the US-China AI regulation debate.
DOL updates include $81.5M rural workforce grants, $10.5M for mine safety training, tipped-employee rule changes, and prior authorization reform.
OSHA cited Always Underground LLC $380K for trench violations; P&V Partitions owes $725K for denied overtime.
VP Vance announced $1.3B in domestic fertilizer investment amid food security concerns.
EPA news: RCRA modernization, Navajo Nation Clean Water Act milestone, and $5.3M for coastal watershed restoration.For more information text me at 845-269-5772.www.safetywars.comwww.jamespoesl.com
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🗒️ 10-20-2026 What 25 Years of Anthrax Lessons Forgot to Teach Us About COVID-19
25 years after the 2001 anthrax attacks, Jim revisits the biological contamination event that shaped his career — and asks why we failed to learn from it.
Drawing from the National Academy of Sciences' "Reopening Public Facilities After a Biological Attack," he walks through the timeline: the first victim at AMI in Boca Raton, the NBC letter addressed to Tom Brokaw, the Hart Senate Office Building shutdown, and the five lives lost.
He reads Casey Chamberlain's firsthand account from O Magazine and Senator Tom Daschle's Wall Street Journal reflection on the attack that exposed 28 people and closed the Hart Building for 100 days.
Then he pivots to the harder question: did any of those lessons survive to COVID-19?
He argues they didn't.
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🗒️ Free Form Friday 10-23-2026
The override alarms are blaring and the grid is fried for this October 23, 2026 transmission, blasting live out of the Safety FM studios in Orlando, Florida.
We just hijacked the system’s airwaves and are punching through the static for iPhone Duo Day with a no-holds-barred scattershot of everything HQ tried to keep off the record.
Unfiltered chaos slicing through compliance theater and corporate doublespeak while the Black Iron Prison keeps trying to plug its leaks.
If your threshold for sugarcoated safety fantasy is zero, strap in—this broadcast is built to drain the high-entropy garbage and reroute all the signals The Mapheads want buried.This episode stomps on the brakes of stale “main story” formats and throws every bureaucratic hack, digital saboteur, and political grandstander right into the danger zone.
High-entropy systems clog the pipes while control freaks try to kill the signal but today’s frequency is raw, high-voltage, and untamed.
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🗒️ Applying the Five Principles of Human Performance
The override circuits are sparking and the multiverse comms are jacked for this October 22, 2026 signal drop, ripped straight from the Safety FM studios in Orlando.
We’re blowing past the static today—no filter, no gatekeepers, just operational reality torching the “experts” and melting down the Black Iron Prison for anyone still locked inside.
If you’re ready to punch holes in corporate doctrine, decode high-entropy garbage masquerading as leadership, and beam your own coordinates onto The Map, this episode’s your launch pad.
No more worshipping the System; it’s time to hijack the broadcast and call BS on bureaucracy dressed up as culture.Cut through the haze with today’s main pulse: Real safety and operational change cannot come from top-down scripts or endless blame cycles.
We skid around the corporate perimeter with war stories, high-stakes news, and Black Iron Prison tactics to show that whenever The System tries to shut you down, your real power is in disruption and learning, not compliance clicks.
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🗒️ Organizational Culture and Safety Integration
The sirens are blaring through the static and the trans-dimensional lines are burning hot on this October 21, 2026 transmission straight from the Safety FM studios in Orlando, Florida.
Forget watching the sky for time-traveling DeLoreans—this broadcast slices through the sanitized muck of compliance theater and hacks the Black Iron Prison that keeps real safety thinking buried under profit-chasing bureaucracy.
Today’s operation is an all-out assault on blind loyalty to The System and those who worship at the altar of “nothing happened” leadership.
If you’re ready to vaporize the corporate map, torch some sacred cows, and drag safety culture out of the low-entropy graveyard, saddle up.
We’re not here to play nice with HR’s favorite policies or worship at the shrine of empty metrics.
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🗒️ The Buck Stops Here: Leadership, Ownership, and Public Perception in Organizations
The override is live, frequencies are unchained, and your signal just hijacked the Rated R Safety Show as of October 20, 2026 direct from the Safety FM chaos core in Orlando, Florida.
Somewhere between the dive bars of the Midwest psyche and the gnashing teeth of compliance, we’re punching right through the static of corporate doublespeak, broadcasting with no filter and less apology.
If hiding behind job titles or citing the great and terrible Map to avoid blame is your move, you’re officially exposed in this timeline.
Today’s operation: jamming the System, burning through hollow org charts, and blowing up the illusion that safety—or authority—can be outsourced down the hall.
Accountability isn’t a department.
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Enjoy, Sheldon Primus
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