Mental Health in the Alaska Workforce
Farah Greene-Palmer and Lincoln Garrick show how positive mental health among employees plays a crucial role in enhancing productivity, retention, and overall success.
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The Safety Corner: Mitigating Risk in Construction
A builder’s risk policy is a type of insurance designed to cover property during construction. With this season shaping up to be one for the record books in Alaska, Sean Dewalt explains how to ensure your project is protected.
Beyond Satisfied: Focus on Employee Commitment
Guest author Maija Doggett shares her human resources expertise on how workplaces should enhance employee commitment as a precursor to engagement and job satisfaction.
Effective Leadership in Times of Rapid Change
Leadership isn’t a simple task on a good day. Woodrie Burich and Naomi DuCharme explain how the key to resilience is staying focused on what you can control.
CMMC Compliance: It’s Actually Happening
Final phases of Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification are being implemented this spring, so Joel Recane of Stratus Services explains the implications for government contractors.
The Focused Manager: Feedback to Give Back
Employees who receive regular, meaningful feedback are more engaged, so managers should become comfortable providing clear, actionable, and timely updates on individual performance.
Alaska’s Assigned Risk Pool
Columnist Sean Dewalt explains the assigned risk pool, which employers use it, and the tradeoffs for covering workers’ compensation.
The Focused Manager: Personal Productivity System
A personal productivity system allows one to evaluate which habits and routines need modification to pull out of a management death spiral.
Endophyte Assisted Remediation
Remediating contaminated soils can take various forms, including an innovative tag team of bacteria and local plants. Intrinsyx Environmental explains the process.
Every Effort Counts in an Employee Misconduct Defense
Columnist Sean Dewalt breaks down four elements of an affirmative defense if (or when!) a safety inspector issues a citation due to unpreventable employee misconduct.