5 Ideas To Help Control Workers Compensation Costs

Barton Staffing Solutions is a partner to its clients when it comes to efforts to control workers compensation costs. We share in the effort to improve safety training for employees while reviewing data and claims information. By being proactive, we can collaboratively detect patterns of risk and unsafe activities. Collaborative work with our clients is […]

Temporary Staffing Turnover – Factors To Consider

In our last blog, we learned a new way to calculate turnover rates in parity with full-time rates, and that have direct meaning with operational costs and financial metrics. Today we want to bring share a short list of temporary staffing turnover factors to consider as you develop your own business-specific factors. Human resources professionals […]

Calculating Temporary Staffing Turnover Rates – It’s Complicated

  Staffing companies like Barton Staffing Solutions are regularly asked: “What is your annual turnover rate?” Calculating temporary staffing turnover – it’s complicated is a great way to think of it. The fact is that numbers temporary staffing agencies provide may not have any meaning. Remember, by definition, temporary employees turnover – they are temporary. Sure, […]

Another Easy Safety Initiative Protect Against Hearing Damage

A couple of weeks ago, we wrote about the easiest safety initiative involving providing eye protection for your employees. Readers responded asking about hearing damage protection on the shop floor. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) Occupational Hearing Loss publishes some basic occupational facts: CDC Occupational Hearing Damage Facts: Four million workers go to work […]

6 Reasons You Need A Full-time Health and Safety Manager

Barton Staffing Solutions regularly supports its client’s safety initiatives. One thing that comes up again and again is the question: “Why do we need a full-time health and safety manager?” Business demand and economic pressures aside, there are some fundamental reasons that every company can benefit from by having a full-time Health and Safety manager […]

Temporary Job Seekers Focus On The Job For Which You Are Interviewing

There are dozens of articles online telling job seekers how to convert a temporary job interview into a longer-term assignment. This is a risky maneuver for temporary job seekers when working with a staffing company or recruiter. It rarely works in an initial interview. Everyone has worked to get that interview for the posted job description. […]