Authentic leadership does not eliminate uncertainty. It makes learning safer and faster. When people can take smart risks without fear, curiosity turns into experiments, and ideas turn into value. Safety is not softness. It is the platform that converts ambition into repeatable progress.

Design safety with clarity. Define purpose, outcomes, and simple guardrails for time, quality, and budget. Map decision rights so everyone knows who decides and when to escalate. Provide access to customers and data. Learn in short cycles with small, testable steps.

Model it daily. Celebrate candor and early signals. Replace status reports with brief demos. Remove obstacles within one day. Thank honest mistakes, extract lessons, and try again. As confidence grows, speed rises, and innovation becomes a habit the Team proudly owns.

For sixty days, define guardrails, run weekly demos, reward smart failures, remove blockers daily, and ship customer value confidently together.

Better work begins with healthy people. Since 1986, WorkSTEPS has advanced worker health as a single-source partner for testing, occupational health, and safety. Together with Fit For Work, they align experts, data, and practical know-how to help employers protect people and productivity from day one.

Their approach is objective and defensible. From post-offer and fit-for-duty testing to medical surveillance and industrial hygiene, programs are built on precise job demands, careful compliance, and reliable measurement. You gain actionable insight to hire smart, prevent injuries, and make informed return-to-work decisions.

Results are real when safety becomes culture. With consistent processes, transparent communication, and a broad network of experts, WorkSTEPS helps reduce risk, control costs, and strengthen resilience. When you invest in healthy workers, crews move confidently, operations stabilize, and progress compounds for people, families, and the communities you serve.

Single-source partner elevates worker health through testing, occupational health, and safety programs that reduce risk, improve resilience, and boost productivity.

This week in Henderson and Evansville, crews are driving steel test piles for the new bridge foundations of the I-69 Ohio River Crossing. Work runs from daylight to dusk with marine safety zones near barges and minimal highway impacts while geotechnical teams instrument the piles.

Test piles verify capacity. Contractors set them in a template, vibrate to start, then hammer to depth and run dynamic load tests with sensors to measure stress and movement. Results calibrate soil models and dictate the size and number of production piles.

With data confirmed, crews will build cofferdams, drive production piles and drill shafts, set footings and piers, and begin approach embankments and interchange tie-ins. The design aims to improve freight reliability and storm resilience while maintaining navigation and protecting fish habitats through seasonal windows.

Stay aware of marine and road advisories, respect detours, reduce speeds near crews, and plan time while foundational work progresses.

Mortgage credit loosened in September. The MBA index rose 0.4 percent to 104.4, the highest in four months. Government programs showed the most improvement, while conventional loosened modestly. Conforming programs opened a bit, jumbo tightened slightly, and lenders expanded adjustable rate offerings as those rates sit well below fixed options.

What is this index? It tracks underwriting criteria across many investors. An increase suggests broader eligibility by credit score, income, or loan-to-value. It does not guarantee approvals for every borrower, but it often leads to more prequalifications and faster movement from interest to signed contracts.

Builders can use this shift immediately. Coordinate with lenders on available products, update incentive menus, and highlight lower payment paths for quick move-in homes. For higher-priced communities, watch the slight jumbo pullback and verify rate locks and reserve requirements. Recheck prequal letters before releasing starts and scheduling trades.

Pair lender product updates with real payment examples, verify jumbo conditions, and pace releases using fresh prequal data and absorption.

Good morning, Team!

Today, we cover the safe use of pneumatic and cordless nailers for framing and sheathing.

Why It Matters

Fasteners travel at high velocity. Unintended discharge, double fires, ricochet, and hose failures injure users and bystanders.

Strategies for Safe Nailing

Discussion Questions

Conclusion

Training, inspection, and deliberate handling prevent punctures and ricochets.

Train it, aim it, nail it!