I’m Rick Hunter co-owner of SafetyInfo.com. As a safety consultant of over 35 years and Director of Safety & Loss Control for 14 years for a 45 million dollar, 374 members’ Compensation Fund, I wanted to broaden my reach to help as many safety professionals that I can. That is why I decided to become a co-owner of SafetyInfo.com.
Through my years as a loss control consultant, I have seen some crazy safety mistakes that have cost companies many thousands up to millions of dollars in fines. There was this one time when this company had an OSHA inspection because of an employee complaint, and the company was fined $57,000 and I took the lead in the abatement process. In the informal conference with OSHA, every document I presented to OSHA for written programs and employee training were customized to that company using the SafetyInfo safety library. In a good faith effort, OSHA reduced the fine to $31,000 saving $26,000. Had they only joined SafetyInfo.com, in the beginning, they could have prevented this fine by getting the compliance and employee training programs and saved $57,000. Avoiding this fine, and applying it to their safety program would have paid for SafetyInfo.com for 142 years.
The first time I heard of SafetyInfo.com was in 1999 a few years into my safety career, and I was struggling to write a compliance program covering both forklift and Haz-com programs for a company I was working for. I needed to make sure that all the required components were covered, so I went searching on the internet to find something that could help me. That is when I found SafetyInfo.com and subscribed to their safety library. SafetyInfo.com had exactly what I needed, a fully customizable complete Haz-com and forklift program ready to go. What normally would have taken me 6 to 8 weeks to do, I was able to do in just a few days thanks to them. A few Months later, the safety director promoted me to training director and I never looked back. SafetyInfo has always been my #1 go-to resource that has made my job much easier as a safety professional. All the compliance programs and training tools I ever needed were right there at my fingertips. Like me, SafetyInfo.com has helped thousands of other safety professionals’ jobs much easier and made them look good doing it.