Safety Made Simple In The Press

Safety Made Simple, LLC, of Olathe, KS, will release new online courses in 2023. According to Joe Mlynek, of Safety Made Simple, “We continue to see a tremendous demand for online content in the Ag industry. Since our inception in 2014, we have partnered with many companies in the grain, feed, milling, commercial farming, retail ag, livestock, and agriculture service industries.”

The 2023 development plan includes online courses on various subjects including:

• Hazard Monitoring Equipment – Grain Dust Explosions

• Grain Harvest Safety

• Spray Drift Management (Retail Ag)

• Food Safety

• Heat Illness Prevention

• Compressed Gas Cylinders

• All-Terrain Forklifts

• Trenching and Excavating

• Emergency Eyewash Stations and Showers

• Dealing with Stressful Situations

• Suicide Prevention

According to Mlynek, “In addition to releasing new courses we are continually updating our existing courses to keep them fresh and engaging. We are committed to helping our partners send their employees home safely!”

Safety Made Simple offers a simple, efficient, and effective learning management system (LMS) that allows clients to easily administer and track employee training as well as a “Course Builder” tool that allows clients to build their own online courses. The Company’s SCORM compliant courses can also be utilized within an existing LMS. For more information visit their website at www.safetymadesimple.com.

Online safety training provider Safety Made Simple, Inc., of Olathe, KS, recently announced that Kris Califano joined their business development and sales team. Kris earned a finance degree from Texas State University in 2011. He has over 9 years of sales and leadership experience in manufacturing. According to Kris, “I am excited to work for an organization that is making a difference in people’s lives. Safety Made Simple has established itself as the premier online safety training provider for the agriculture industry. I am excited to expand our reach in agriculture and other related industries.”

According to Safety Made Simple’s president Chuck Pirie, “We are thrilled to bring someone of Kris’s caliber onto our team. His strong background in sales and business development fits well with our long-term growth objectives.”

Safety Made Simple offers a full range of online courses in areas including general industry, grain handling, livestock, agronomy, and food safety, as well as human resource development. Courses are available in English and Spanish. The Company’s LMS allows an administrator to easily assign, track, and generate a wide range of reports. Safety Made Simple also offers a “Course Builder” tool which allows clients to build their own courses within the LMS. For more information visit their website at www.safetymadesimple.com.

Safety Made Simple, LLC, of Olathe, KS, will release new online courses in 2022. According to Joe Mlynek, of Safety Made Simple, “We continue to see a tremendous need for online content in the Ag industry. Since our inception in 2014, we have partnered with many companies in the grain, feed, commercial farming, retail ag, livestock, and construction industries. Our 2022 content development plan continues to focus on these sectors.”  

The 2022 development plan includes courses on various subjects including:

• Hazardous Grain Conditions – Engulfment/Entrapment

• Food Safety 

• Implements of Agriculture

• DOT Security

• Crane Safety – Operations, Rigging, Signalperson

• Mobile Elevated Work Platforms

• Tractor Safety

• Conveyor Safety

• Defensive Driving

• Intrapersonal Skills

According to Mlynek, “We are committed to developing online training that helps send people home safely. We have released over 135 online courses specific to grain handling, retail ag, commercial, farming, food safety, feedyard, dairy, construction, and general industry safety. We also offer a wide range of human resource development courses.” 

Safety Made Simple offers a simple, efficient, and effective learning management system (LMS) that allows clients to easily administer and track employee training as well as a “Course Builder” tool that allows clients to build their own online courses. The Company’s SCORM compliant courses can also be utilized within an existing LMS. For more information visit their website at www.safetymadesimple.com.

Safety Made Simple (SMS) announces today a new partnership with National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) to promote grain safety. The partnership allows SMS clients access to NGFA’s library of Safety Tips Sheets and online training modules within SMS’s learning management system. 

“NGFA and Safety Made Simple share similar missions to help workers go home safe every day,” said Jess McCluer, NGFA’s vice president of safety and regulatory affairs. “This partnership will ensure NGFA’s safety training materials are shared as widely as possible by being featured on Safety Made Simple’s professional and robust online training platform. We hope this partnership can contribute to creating a culture of safety in every facility and farm where grain is handled, creating a healthier and happier agricultural community.”

According to Joe Mlynek of Safety Made Simple, “we are excited to work with NGFA to provide these resources to our clients throughout North America. We are big supporters of the NGFA and their commitment to worker safety throughout the industry. Together we can help send people home safely.”

About NGFA.
NGFA, established in 1896, consists of more than 1,000 grain, feed, processing, exporting and other grain-related companies that operate more than 7,000 facilities and handle more than 70 percent of all U.S. grains and oilseeds. Its membership includes grain elevators; feed and feed ingredient manufacturers; biofuels companies; grain and oilseed processors and millers; exporters; livestock and poultry integrators; and associated firms that provide goods and services to the nation’s grain, feed, and processing industry. NGFA also consists of 33 affiliated State and Regional Grain and Feed Associations, and NGFA is co-located and has a strategic alliance with North American Export Grain Association, and a strategic alliance with Pet Food Institute. For more information, visit their website at www.ngfa.org.

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About Safety Made Simple.

Safety Made Simple, the agriculture industry’s leading online training provider, offers a full range of courses in areas including general industry, grain handling, livestock, agronomy, and food safety, as well as human resource development. The Company’s learning management system (LMS) allows an administrator to easily assign and track training efforts and generate a wide range of reports. Safety Made Simple also offers a “Course Builder” tool which allows clients to build their own courses within the LMS.  Courses are available within an existing LMS with their “content only” option.  For more information visit their website at www.safetymadesimple.com.

Safety Made Simple, LLC of Olathe, Kansas recently partnered with GEAPS to provide free online safety courses to GEAPS members. Safety Made Simple will provide one new online course every quarter for the next year. 

According to Joe Mlynek of Safety Made Simple, “we are grateful for the opportunity to offer several of our online courses to individual GEAPS members.  Our partnership with GEAPS aligns with our commitment to the hard-working people in the agriculture industry. Together we will help send them home safely each day.”

“We are very excited to work with Safety Made Simple and to provide this additional training at no cost to our members,” said Steve Records, GEAPS executive director. “This partnership highlights our mission and work to advance industry knowledge and provides distinct new value for GEAPS membership. The team at Safety Made Simple leverage a ton of experience to provide tools to keep the industry safe. The members of their content development team are highly regarded in our industry and are frequent speakers at GEAPS events.” 

GEAPS individual members can access the training by logging in to the GEAPS website and clicking on “My Training” on their individual member profile.

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About Safety Made Simple.

Safety Made Simple, the agriculture industry’s leading online training provider, offers a full range of courses in areas including general industry, grain handling, livestock, agronomy, and food safety, as well as human resource development. The Company’s learning management system (LMS) allows an administrator to easily assign and track training efforts and generate a wide range of reports. Safety Made Simple also offers a “Course Builder” tool which allows clients to build their own courses within the LMS. Courses are available within an existing LMS with their “content only” option. 

About GEAPS.
The Grain Elevator and Processing Society (GEAPS) is an international professional association of grain handling and processing professionals. GEAPS addresses the industry’s critical grain handling, storage and processing operations needs by providing networking, professional development programs and access to a global marketplace of industry suppliers. GEAPS’ global network includes more than 2,300 individual members from about 1,050 companies.

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Online safety training provider Safety Made Simple, Inc., of Olathe, KS, recently announced that Sam Germer will lead their business development efforts including sales, marketing, and client retention.

Sam is no stranger to the Ag industry.  Upon graduation from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, he began a 13-year career in Retail Ag working for both cooperatives and independent ag retailers. In 1998 he and a partner founded Pro Compliance which later purchased Regulatory Consultants, Inc. (RCI). Sam has spent the last 18 years as Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Client Retention, and HSE Services with RCI/ Dekra North America.  

According to Germer, “Safety Made Simple does a fantastic job developing quality online safety training courses for the agricultural market. I am thrilled to help provide valuable safety education to the many sectors of agriculture across our great nation. I am also excited to be working for an organization that is really making a difference in people’s lives. My new team members are extremely passionate about safety.”

According to Safety Made Simple’s president Chuck Pirie, “We are thrilled to bring someone of Sam’s caliber onto our team.  He has a strong background in sales, marketing, and client retention. This along with his agriculture background fits well with our growth objectives.”

Safety Made Simple offers a full range of online courses in areas including general industry, grain handling, livestock, agronomy, and food safety, as well as human resource development. Courses are available in English and Spanish.  The Company’s LMS allows an administrator to easily assign, track, and generate a wide range of reports. Safety Made Simple also offers a “Course Builder” tool which allows clients to build their own courses within the LMS.  

Safety Made Simple, Inc., of Olathe, KS, recently announced that Bob Marlow has joined their content development team. Bob will develop a series of maintenance courses pertaining to conveyance, bucket elevator legs, grain dryers, and dust collection equipment. Marlow spent over 43 years in grain elevator operations with The Andersons, Inc. He founded Operations Professional Services (OPS) in 2015. OPS provides customers with customized education, training, and guidance to improve operational efficiency, maintain grain quality, and increase overall bottom-line performance.

According to Marlow, “There is a direct correlation between maintenance activities and safety. The online courses will tie the two elements together. I am excited to work with Safety Made Simple and their team of adult learning experts.”

According to Joe Mlynek, of Safety Made Simple, “There is a tremendous need for equipment-specific maintenance training in the Ag industry. Coupling maintenance and safety together is something we are very excited about. Bob is a respected industry expert. We are proud to have him as a member of our team. “

Safety Made Simple has a full range of online safety courses covering general industry, grain handling, livestock (cattle/dairy), food safety, and agronomy. Each course establishes three to four key learning objectives and uses real-life, industry-specific scenarios to improve employee retention. The Company’s learning management system (LMS) allows an administrator to easily assign, track, and generate a wide range of reports. Courses are also available in English and Spanish. Safety Made Simple also offers a “Course Builder” tool which allows clients to build their own courses within the LMS. 

Safety Made Simple, Inc., of Olathe, KS, recently partnered with the North Dakota Grain Dealers Association (NDGDA).  According to Joe Mlynek, of Safety Made Simple, “we are pleased to announce our partnership with NDGDA. Together we will offer their member companies access to our Ag-specific online training. We appreciate their commitment to safety and to their members.” 

According to David Nelson of NDGDA, “We are very excited to offer our members access to Safety Made Simple’s online training courses.  We are always looking for way to improve our service offering. We want to make sure that our members send their employees home safely each day.  Safety Made Simple’s online courses are perfect for our members.  Their experienced content development team does a great job delivering training that applies to grain handling, agronomy and milling operations.”

Each of the Safety Made Simple’s online courses establish three to four key learning objectives and use real life, industry-specific case studies to improve employee retention.  Courses also include testing to ensure comprehension.  The learning management system allows an administrator to easily assign, track, and generate a wide range of reports.  Courses are also available in English and Spanish.  For more information visit their website at www.safetymadesimple.com.

NDGDA has offered a variety of services to their members for over 100 years.  Their safety and health program provides members with written safety programs, site-inspections and safety training.  To learn more about their safety services visit:  www.ndgda.org/services/safety-and-health-program

The September/October edition of the internationally published Grain Journal features Safety Made Simple as the focus of their "WHY I BELIEVE IN..." column. 

Read more about how Safety Made Simple's online training is making a difference in customers' safety training efforts. 

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Safety Made Simple (SMS), of Olathe, KS, has announced the launch of their new website.   According to Chuck Pirie, President, “We are excited about our new website.  We released our new learning management system (LMS) earlier this summer.  The new website expands on many of the features of the new LMS.” 

The new and expanded website provides information on portal customization, gamification, mobile device access, instructor lead training options, the course builder tool, and options for companies using other systems that would like to access Safety Made Simple’s content in an efficient manner.

According to content expert Joe Mlynek, “Our offering has constantly evolved since we started developing online training for the Ag industry back in 2013.  We have a large course offering and a completely new and improved LMS.  We want to showcase these areas for organizations looking for more effective and efficient ways to deliver quality safety training.” 

Safety Made Simple has a full range of online safety courses that apply to general industry, grain handling, livestock, food safety, and agronomy.

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Safety Made Simple, Inc., of Olathe, KS, recently announced that Susan Bedsaul has joined their core support team in a full time capacity. Susan has had a role with SMS since 2016, and will be handling all information technology activities in our learning management platforms as well as using her project management expertise to streamline our operations. Susan brings over 30 years of knowledge and experience working in the IT field, with a heavy emphasis in project management, website development, quality control testing, and writing custom applications. Her IT career includes 16 years working as an IT Specialist with American Century Investments, based in Kansas City, and 10 years managing the Application and Web Development for the City of Shawnee, Kansas (a suburb of the Kansas City Metropolitan area).

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According to Chuck Pirie, "Susan's background in IT and project management will allow us to effectively mange our rapid growth and provide a superior online learning experience to our clients. We are excited to have her as part of our talented team of professionals."

According to Susan, "I am so privileged to be working with a company that exemplifies its core values of integrity, excellence, accountability, and the Golden Rule through its people -- every day!  Safety Made Simple and I also share a core belief that most things can be simplified. Coming from the world of Information Technology, most solutions end up being much more complicated than necessary. My goal is always to evaluate the issue or problem and provide a simple and straight forward solution."

Safety Made Simple, Inc., of Olathe, KS, recently announced that Steve Queen has joined their content development team. Steve will be developing several courses relating to grain safety and agronomy. Steve has over forty years of experience in the grain, feed, agronomy, and transportation industry. Steve is currently a safety consultant providing safety compliance assessments, program development, and regulatory compliance services for several agricultural companies in Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana.

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In addition to being a safety consultant, Steve is an instructor for the Safety and Training Rescue Association (SATRA). Steve is also the training coordinator for the Grain Safety Training Center in Sydney, Ohio as well as being active member of the Ohio and Indiana Risk Coordinator Groups and the Ohio Agribusiness Association.

According to Queen, “Safety Made Simple offers online safety training specific to the Ag-industry. The courses are very easy for employees to use, understand, and follow. Safety training for the Ag-industry is not easy to find and if we do find any, it is an old and not current. Safety Made Simple has developed up to date material that nails it for our industry. I am excited to be part of the team.”

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According to Joe Mlynek, of Safety Made Simple, “We have a strong content development team. Steve’s expertise and experience in the Ag industry makes us even stronger. We are grateful to have him as part of the Safety Made Simple team.”

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Safety Made Simple has a full range of online safety courses that apply to general industry, grain handling, livestock, food safety, and agronomy.

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