Nov 7, 2023 | General Safety, Safety Shorts
By Chad Engle, Loss Prevention and Safety Manager Last weekend Nebraska experienced its first snow fall of the season with reports of 2 – 3 inches in the panhandle area and flurries throughout the rest of the state. I hate to say it, but old man winter is here....
Sep 27, 2023 | General Safety, Safety Shorts
By Chad Engle, Loss Prevention Manager and Safety Specialist NIRMA’s Best Practice for Safety Members # 8. Perform regular documented inspections of all workplace sites. To assist our members with this best practice NIRMA created the Property/Building Inspection...
Sep 5, 2023 | General Safety, Safety Shorts
By Chad Engle, Loss Prevention and Safety Manager Members often contact NIRMA to ask about the legalities and risks of allowing animals in the courthouse and other workplace buildings. It is not uncommon for a visitor to try to enter the building with a pet and hope...
Aug 3, 2023 | General Safety, Safety Shorts
By Chad Engle, Loss Prevention and Safety Manager While reviewing workers’ compensation loss data for a member county recently I was comparing their loss leaders, or most common types of losses, to those of the entire membership and as I expected, things have not...
Jul 5, 2023 | General Safety, Safety Shorts
By Chad Engle, Loss Prevention and Safety Manager With three days left in June, we have already experienced temperatures in the 90s fourteen times this month. I can only imagine what July and August have in store for us. As the temperatures increase, along with the...
Jun 13, 2023 | General Safety, Safety Shorts
By Chad Engle, Loss Prevention Manager and Safety Specialist I am very excited to announce that this year’s Money for Minutes program has been expanded to include ten $500 awards for safety committees that are drawn from the pool of committees that meet the Money for...