Jan 5, 2021 | General Safety, Safety Shorts
By Chad Engle, Loss Prevention and Safety Specialist Happy New Year! This will be NIRMA’s third year of funding two $500 Money for Minutes awards. These are for those member safety committees that conducted their quarterly meetings and submitted minutes for review...
Dec 1, 2020 | General Safety, Safety Shorts
By Chad Engle, Loss Prevention and Safety Specialist With the slowdown in road projects and maintenance brought on by winter, many counties shift work to removing and trimming troublesome trees in their rights-of-way. Tree trimming can be a dangerous combination of...
Nov 10, 2020 | General Safety, Safety Shorts
By Chad Engle, Loss Prevention and Safety Specialist Lately I have been fielding questions relating to the Department of Transportation’s Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse (Clearinghouse). Everything from “Do I have to do this?” to “What is it?”, so it seemed like a good...
Oct 1, 2020 | General Safety, Safety Shorts
By Chad Engle, Loss Prevention and Safety Specialist I was recently given a new book titled “Rethinking Hand Safety, Myths, Truths, and Proven Practices,” authored by Joe Geng. Mr. Geng grew up in the glove manufacturing business. He knows a thing or two about gloves...
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...
