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October 3, 2022

Tips for Calling 9-1-1 from your Business

Written by: Penny Ryan, Safety Trainers Do you have to dial 9 or another number to get an outside line in your place of business? Do you allow your employees to use their cell phones during an emergency in the building? Do you have cell service or a “dead […]

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August 22, 2022

MassMEP Announces Kathie Mahoney as President/CEO

August, 22, 2022 – Auburn, MA – MassMEP, the Massachusetts Manufacturing Extension Partnership, and Board Chair Dennis Leonard have announced the appointment of Kathie Mahoney as the next President/CEO of MassMEP. Ms. Mahoney began her MEP career at MassMEP where she held several positions, culminating in Center Director in 2017. She then […]

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August 17, 2022

The ROI for manager training: Why it’s your best defense against the great resignation

By: Britt Andreatta, Ph.D. Chief Learning Officer Employees’ new demand to work from home is not the only element driving The Great Resignation. Alongside shifting values and pandemic burnout, poor managers are driving away your best people. Even before the pandemic, 84 percent of U.S. workers said poorly […]

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August 16, 2022

Preventing Workplace Violence Starts with Communication

“Protecting Your Business and Your Employees” since 1998. By: Darcy Cook, CSHO, SHS, PTA In 2020, there were more than 20,000 days-away-from-work injuries caused by workplace assaults, according to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS). And each year there are millions of workers who report beings victims of workplace violence, […]

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August 15, 2022

MassMEP Employee Highlights – Richard Goyette

Richard Goyette MassMEP Employee Highlights Meet MassMEP Continuous Improvement Project Manager, Richard Goyette. Richard explains that his role revolves around delivering MassMEP’s training to different companies and providing them with education on topics such as Lean, Six Sigma, and engineering basics like GD&T, math, and metrology. Certified in Six […]

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June 22, 2022

MassMEP Employee Highlights – Roger Allen

Roger Allen MassMEP Employee Highlights Roger Allen has been with MassMEP for 6 months as a Project Manager. As part of MassMEP’s team of Project Managers Roger prepares himself on a day-to-day basis to go out into MEP’s manufacturer client base to bring new ideas and assist them in whatever […]

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June 14, 2022

The MassMEP Newsline Library

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June 10, 2022

Heat Related Injuries in the Workplace

By: Darcy Cook, CHSO, SHS, PTA OSHA’s goal is to increase the number of inspections, by over 100%, for heat relatedinjuries and illnesses. OSHA will include heat-related hazards in ongoing inspections. When the temperature is above 80 degrees and when the National Weather Service (NWS) has issued a heat warning, […]

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June 8, 2022

Tooling U-SME Debuts Immersive Virtual Labs to Help Manufacturers Accelerate Upskilling and Increase Retention

NEWS PROVIDED BY Tooling U-SME Jun 07, 2022, 09:15 ET PITTSBURGH, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Continuing its decades-long tradition of harnessing technology to advance manufacturing training, Tooling U-SME, the leading provider of manufacturing training solutions, is launching Virtual Labs tomorrow at its annual tuXperience in Pittsburgh. Held June 8-9, 2022, tuX is an annual gathering of those […]

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June 7, 2022

MassMEP Employee Highlights – Charles Purtle

Charles Purtle MassMEP Employee Highlights “I’m a Project Manager here at MassMEP and have been on board for about 4 months,” begins Charles Purtle. “I deliver products to train employees to learn how to better serve themselves and hopefully grow their companies. First, we start by going into the company […]

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