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Matt Compher

Sep 14, 2026

3:43
What critical controls do you consider absolutely essential preventing sticky events, and how does the company verify they're working as intended?
3:52
Depending on the sticky energy that's present, and it, it's ever-moving, the one thing that, you know, we've been focused on is not only good traffic control plans, um, but putting blocker vehicles.
4:04
You know, I remember in our industry, you go back a decade ago or so ago, and we were talking about clearing out the work zone.
4:11
Let's get less vehicles and less to make it cleaner, more space to work.
4:16
And now we're saying, "Hey, let's, let's park a vehicle in between oncoming traffic and the worker to put that control in place to help us have a better chance if somebody steers, steers in there." But, uh, with sticky, we, we ask each day, "What's sticky?" And then having a control in place for that energy, whatever that energy might be.
4:37
What we try to be is not one control away from failure, and if the only control is the human beings not going to make a mistake, we really have to rethink that task.
9:02
Matt, what keeps you up at night from a sticky perspective, and what can safety professionals do to help reduce that risk?
9:08
You know what keeps me up at night is frontline leadership engagement.

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