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NSSGA Podcast

Dec 2, 2021

Libby Pritchard, Director of Construction Materials Safety Policy at NSSGA, is back once more with another crucial and instructive story of workplace safety. This time around, she focuses on the need to exercise safety protocols according to the environment, particularly navigating the dangers that can arise while...


Nov 4, 2021

Rob Lanham, the Aggregates Program Manager at the Virginia Transportation Construction Alliance, previously joined the show to discuss his recent heart attack. Today he returns to share another safety story involving a young man who fell eight feet and hit his head on a concrete pier, all because he did not clear up his...


Oct 7, 2021

Troy Austin is the Value Safety Manager at Luck Companies, as well as a Marine Corps Veteran. Today he tells the story of a friend who was accidentally killed by committing an unsafe act during their service together. Neglecting safety procedures in place, Troy’s friend removed the barrel off of a .50 caliber machine...


Sep 2, 2021

Today Libby looks at overexertion and the idea of pushing through pain or injury. More than a quarter of injuries in the Aggregates Industry over the last five years have been because of overexertion, and most occur while lifting, pulling, or pushing an object. A major challenge related to overexertion is pushing...


Aug 5, 2021

Clay Albright of Caldwell Stone developed his career in the Aggregate Industry at an early age, through a family-owned quarry in Kentucky. He is a third-generation miner and a young leader in the industry. Today Clay joins Libby to discuss his safety story as a haul truck driver nearly twenty years ago. He shares what...