Sep 1, 2020 | General Safety, Safety Shorts
By Chad Engle, Loss Prevention and Safety Specialist I have seen a few sets of safety committee minutes that included something along the lines of, “incident reports not available so incidents were not discussed.” I am not certain if this is because no one was able to...
Sep 1, 2020 | General Safety, Safety Shorts
By Chad Engle, Loss Prevention and Safety Specialist It is common knowledge that alcohol burns. We add ethanol (grain) to our fuel and use high ABV alcohol to add flames to fancy drinks or in cooking. Have you ever seen the flaming onion volcano at a Japanese...
Aug 1, 2020 | General Safety, Safety Shorts
By Chad Engle, Loss Prevention and Safety Specialist Some months I rack my brain trying to come up with a topic for my Safety Shorts article, this month was not one of those months. Today I received an email from a member county to let me know they had received not...
Jul 1, 2020 | General Safety, Safety Shorts
By Chad Engle, Loss Prevention and Safety Specialist Recently I have received a couple of questions regarding the DOT Clearinghouse and positive drug test results. Most Designated Employer Representatives (DERs) do not have a lot of experience dealing with positive...
Jun 1, 2020 | General Safety, Safety Shorts
By Chad Engle, Loss Prevention and Safety Specialist We have made it to June and 2020 has been nothing less than interesting so far. Let us hope that things calm down and we can get back to doing what we do. Speaking of June, June just happens to be National Safety...
May 1, 2020 | General Safety, Safety Shorts
By Chad Engle, Loss Prevention and Safety Specialist I am pleased to report that NIRMA had 51 members submit safety committee minutes for the first quarter of 2020. That is excellent! If these members continue holding their meetings and submitting minutes, we could...
