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Leadership and Worker Protection in Construction

Matt Gruetzman

Matt Gruetzman’s safety journey highlights why strong leadership, trust, and communication shape safer construction sites. His approach shows how people-focused leadership builds confidence, increases reporting, and keeps crews protected.

Honest Leadership, Real Results

Dallas Schneider Portrait

Dallas Schneider, Health and Safety Manager at Sang Co-Op Ltd., shares how honest leadership and strong fundamentals like management buy-in, hazard assessments, and continuous improvement build lasting safety programs.

More Than Rules: Building Real Safety Relationships

Chelsea Portrait Company Spotlight articles

Chelsea Shaver’s journey from childcare to construction safety proves that true safety culture is built on trust, not rules. Through empathy, consistency, and real relationships, she’s helping crews see safety as teamwork and not enforcement.

Making Safety Simple  

Carling and Gift Portraits

Carling Landon and Gift Avwomakpa are transforming safety at Driving Force by simplifying complex procedures, building trust with workers, and turning compliance into collaboration. Their focus on clarity, mobile accessibility, and employee feedback has created a safety culture that’s embraced, not enforced.

Built on Trust:

Lisa Rantucci with a girl discussing

This story explores how human-centered safety leadership, emotional intelligence, and digital transformation are helping build safer, more resilient workplaces.

Scott Lyall’s Safety Storytelling: Bringing Humanity to High-Tech Workplaces

Scott Lyall transforms traditional safety training by blending storytelling with scalable technology, creating buy-in, boosting engagement, and turning compliance into culture, He champions “omni-training” for today’s learners, infusing humanity into safety protocols, and aligning safety with company-wide efficiency.

Redefining Ergonomics with Linda Miller

Linda Miller helped make ergonomics a workplace standard, now she’s designing jobs around people, not forcing people to fit the job, her approach blends tech, empathy, and prevention, reshaping how we think about safety, productivity, and human-centered design.

Second Nature: How Brett Burkard Made Safety Sticky 

A Man with safety helmet and vest, during work hours on the job site

Safety that lasts is built, not declared. Brett Burkard explains how Titan Environmental moved from improvised notes to daily rituals, leader-led standards, mobile reporting, and visible follow‑through turning prevention into a workplace reflex. Practical takeaways: short huddles, closed loops, recognition, and tech that fits the field.