Safety Is Personal: How One CEO Turned an 80-Year-Old Family Business Into America's Most Comprehensive Workplace Protection Partner (Julie Copeland, CEO, Arbill)
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In this episode of the Think Small Podcast, Julie Copeland, CEO of Arbill, shares the story of an 80-year-old safety company that has quietly become one of the most comprehensive workplace safety partners in America, combining PPE distribution, proprietary product manufacturing, environmental health and safety consulting, safety training, vending technology, and a sensor-based proximity warning system called TruSense that protects workers from forklift and robot collisions. Julie took over as CEO in 2005 and has spent two decades building a business where human life is the organizing principle, not just a product category bundled alongside maintenance and repair supplies. Her mission is deeply personal: as a mother of three, she built Arbill around the belief that every worker who leaves for a shift deserves to come home the same way they left, a ...