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9 Tips for Safe Winter Driving
Driving requires all the care and caution possible any time of year. But winter driving has even greater challenges because of wet and icy road surfaces, longer hours of darkness and poor visibility due to snow, rain and fog.
Help your workers drive safely this winter with these tips.
9 Tips for Safe Winter Driving
1. Allow enough [...]
10 Hurricane Clean-Up Hazards to Watch For
A hurricane’s dangers don’t subside with its winds. After the storm, emergency crews put themselves in harm’s way to help others. These emergency crews include law enforcement, emergency medical assistance, debris clearing workers, power line repairers and others doing restoration work.
This is dangerous work. According to OSHA, these are just some of the hazards faced [...]
Schindler Recommends Proper Elevator Preparations During Harsh Weather Seasons
During a season in which weather can be potentially hazardous, it’s important that building and facility managers take the proper precautions to help prevent elevator damage and protect the safety of building occupants. Schindler Elevator Corporation offers the following tips to consider before, during and after weather-related events. For questions or assistance, customers should contact [...]
10 Essential Tips for Emergency Eyewash Stations
A chemical eye injury is something to avoid at all costs; it is a painful and frightening experience and one that may leave a person blinded for life. So if your employees are exposed to hazardous chemicals and other substances, it’s imperative that you do everything you can to ensure that your emergency eyewash stations [...]
Picking Up the Pieces Following a Disaster
People breathe a sigh of relief if their home or business has been spared, without any loss of life, in a tornado, hurricane, earthquake or other disaster.
But just because the disaster has passed doesn’t mean the danger is over. Here’s a list of safety tips from the American Society of Safety [...]
Worst Oil Spill in US History Blamed on Several Critical Failures
The worst offshore oil spill in US history began a year ago today – April 20, 2010 – with a fire and explosion that killed 11 workers on BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, the aftermath of which will likely linger for years to come.
The Deepwater Horizon, a $560 million rig owned [...]
April 18, 1906: The Great San Francisco Earthquake
Today is the 105th anniversary of one of the greatest natural disasters in American history: the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906. The shaking started at 5:12 AM and was felt as far away as Los Angeles, Oregon and central Nevada. It lasted barely a minute but killed approximately 900 people.
But worst was to come. [...]
Practice Makes Perfect
The tragic events unfolding in Japan over the past week has us all thinking in terms of disaster preparation and emergency evacuation.
The Importance of Practice
You know the old joke about the guy in New York City who’s lost and turns to a police officer to ask: "How do you get to Carnegie Hall?”
The officer’s response: [...]
Understanding Tsunami Warnings
There are three levels of tsunami warnings.
1. Advisory: An earthquake has occurred in the Pacific basin, which might generate a tsunami.
2. Warning: A tsunami was, or may have been generated, which could cause damage; therefore, people in the warned area are strongly advised to evacuate.
3. Watch: A tsunami was or may have been generated, but [...]
7 Ways to Survive a Tsunami
Tsunamis, also known as seismic sea waves, are a series of enormous waves created by an underwater disturbance such as an earthquake, landslide, volcanic eruption or meteorite. A tsunami can move hundreds of miles an hour in the open ocean and smash into land with waves as high as 100 feet (30 meters) or more.
From [...]
