Safety: The Call You Hope Never to Get

Short and sweet...The safety of every Ryan Staffing employee placed on assignment is our most important daily concern.

Over the past 25 years we have declined to place personnel in situations of concern.
We believe strongly that the safety issue is a joint responsibility between Ryan Staffing and its clients.

Because our clients have total control of the work environment and provide all the job training for our temps, we rely heavily on our clients to provide an accident free workplace. We do however realize that despite all this accidents will and still happen.

Last month we experienced the most severe industrial injury in the history of our company. It was a severe crushing injury that resulted in severe abdominal internal injuries as well as crushed bones.

The injury happened on an early Friday evening shift. Our client never contacted us about the injury. We learned second hand about the accident the following Monday afternoon.

As you can imagine by the time our client permitted us to see the accident scene it had been cleansed. The clients' attorneys would not let us talk to witnesses that could
shed light on what happened. Nearly four weeks later we still don't know what happened.

Because of our clients casual attitude towards this near fatal accident we decided to remove the rest of our temps from our client's location with two days notice. We no
longer had any confidence in our client's ability to provide a safe work environment. In short, we feared for the safety of our employees. This wasn't the first accident there.

The response we got from the client's corporate attorney was that if we removed our temps they would never give us their business again. To this day they have never inquired about the condition of the injured employee to my knowledge.

You're probably wondering by now where all this is heading. It's pretty simple. As a matter of corporate culture or morality or plain old just doing the right thing, Ryan Staffing will walk away from business if we believe our employees are at risk.

It's not an easy thing to do especially during times when any business is hard to come by. But I think, rather I know, that most all of our clients feel as I do about the safety of all our employees while on the job. And for that, we are most appreciative.

As a side note, the injured worker in this case is making good progress towards recovery. He has a long road to full recovery ahead of him but at least he has a road.

Thanks for listening.