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• Safety Culture: Encouraging the Right Employee Attitude

  Rick Provost discussse how the right attitude about safety will influence your employees' behavior and can boost the level of safety at your company.

• Career Move: Jobs for Remodelers Moving Into the Next Phase of Their Career

  RICK PROVOST points out that since remodeling and construction experience migrate well to safety work, a new career as a safety professional might fit your post-remodeling plans.

• Safety and Profitability: Your EMR Can Reduce Your Cost of Business

  RICK PROVOST: Pay attention to your company's experience modification rate (EMR) to reduce insurance claims and help your bottom line.

• In the Cross Hairs: Independent Contractor or Employee?

  RICK PROVOST: With the Department of Labor's enhanced focus on worker misclassification, you need to be careful about correctly classifying workers as either employees or independent contractors.

• Make Your Own Silver Lining

  Using the downturn to practice some creative cost control.

• Still Crazy After All These Years

  An aging hippie asks remodelers to turn on and tune in…to his online community to foster thoughtful and constructive dialogue about remodeling.

• Restoration Revisited

  In light of the economy, Rick Provost revises what he said in a previous column about remodelers and restoration.

• Both Sides of the Satisfaction Equation

  Rick Provost offer a case study of how a remodeling company saved a customer relationship.

• Weather or Not

  Stimulus money is still out there--Rick Provost tells you where it is and how to use it.

• You Can Get There From Here

  Rick Provost's profile of a remodeler's path to balancing craft and business.