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Grading the Safety Culture of Your Child’s School
Does your child’s school have a safety committee? What kind of anti-bullying resources are available to students and parents? These are just two of the many questions parents should ask to assess the safety culture of a child’s school and to prepare for emergencies.
Use this free report card from Safety Smart! Magazine to grade the [...]
4 Tips to Get Your Kids Back to School Safely
The few weeks before and after the kids head back to school can be very chaotic, making it easy to overlook health and safety best practices at home. But this is precisely when we need to be thinking about protecting our family. So here are a few tips from the experts to help you prepare [...]
How to Create a Property Protection Program
The safety director’s primary goal is to prevent illness and injury. Increasingly, though, we are being called on to protect the company’s other assets, including its property and the very viability of its business in case of disaster. That’s why auditing, emergency preparedness and response are so important.
Protecting Property Also Protects [...]
12 Water Safety Tips
Summer and water activities go hand-in-hand. But it can also be a deadly combination. Here are a dozen ways to stay safe when your summertime fun takes you near any body of water (swimming or wading pool, lake, ocean or river):
1. Learn to swim. The best thing anyone can do to stay safe in and [...]
Drowning Looks Different than You Think
We still have several weeks left of summer fun, including trips to the lake and swimming in the pool. That means that drowning is still a huge concern. Most people think that it’s easy to spot someone in trouble. But they’re wrong. Drowning is a silent killer. It can occur in only a few minutes [...]
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Bee Swarms? We Wish
[Re last week's article by John Riehs] I’m not quite sure where you are located, but in Georgia the bee population is at an all time low. It is troublesome to know that when bee populations are low we are at risk of losing many different types of food crops. Please [...]
Barbecue Food Safety – The Do’s and the Don’ts
In addition to using backyard grills safely, it’s also important to follow food safety guidelines to prevent foodborne illness. Here are some do’s and don’ts to enjoy a healthy barbecue:
Do:
Store raw meat in the fridge. Freeze poultry and ground meat two days after purchasing. Freeze other meats within four to five days.
Marinate meats in the [...]
12 Rules for Safely Enjoying Your Barbecue
These days, more North Americans are grilling than ever before. A recent study conducted by the Hearth, Patio and Barbecue Association shows that more than 80% of all U.S. households own and frequently use one or more grills. While two major summer holidays have already passed with grill use at peak levels, the fact is [...]
Is Your Home Safe When You Go on Vacation?
Here’s some timely advice from the Government of Canada:
For many people, summer means vacation and a vacation can mean leaving your home for a longer period of time than usual.
Many people who go on vacation wonder if their house will be safe while they are away. When you go on vacation, [...]
Safety As a State of Mind and Confidence
It takes a lot of things to make a workplace safe—engineering controls, safe work procedures, protective equipment, etc. How do we know that what we’re doing is working? Check the reportables? Yeah, I guess. But reportables are just numbers. If we really want to know if we’re getting it right, we [...]
