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Brett Burkard<\/a> still hears the blasts.<\/p>\n Before he built Titan Environmental, he was building infrastructure on military bases. Not in office parks, in combat zones. Where PPE came with plates and helmets, and one slip-up didn\u2019t mean paperwork, it meant body bags.<\/p>\n And the lesson he brought back?<\/p>\n \u201cYou don\u2019t improvise awareness. It\u2019s either in your head already, or it\u2019s too late.\u201d<\/p>\n Sometimes it wears hi-vis and hardhats.<\/p>\n Sometimes it\u2019s:<\/p>\n That\u2019s the daily frontline. The real risk isn\u2019t some dramatic accident, it\u2019s the normal stuff getting just a little too sloppy.<\/p>\n That\u2019s why Brett drilled safety into the daily routine. Every day. No exceptions. Even when the crew groaned about \u201cwasting time.\u201d<\/p>\n Until the silence meant something.<\/p>\n \u201cThey rolled their eyes,\u201d Brett said. \u201cThen one day, they realized no one had been hurt in months. It wasn\u2019t luck. It was awareness<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\nDanger Doesn\u2019t Always Announce Itself<\/h2>\n
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The Real Killer? Getting Comfortable<\/h2>\n
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