Dec 6, 2023 | General Safety, Safety Shorts
By Chad Engle, Loss Prevention and Safety Manager Beginning this month, and for the next four months, I’m going to discuss the different responsibilities and duties of a safety committee as outlined in NIRMA’s new Safety Committee Resource Handbook. Hardcopies of the...
Dec 6, 2023 | Road Safety, Safety Shorts
By K C Pawling, Road Safety and Loss Prevention Specialist County road departments must install and maintain signs according to the latest edition of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD). I understand with the 864 pages in the MUTCD someone could get...
Nov 7, 2023 | Law Safety, Safety Shorts
By Todd Duncan, Law Enforcement and Safety Specialist If you attended this year’s NIRMA Self Defense for County Officials conference in Kearney, you may have sat in on my session titled, Packing Heat, No Permit: Understanding LB 77. During this session, there was...
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....
Nov 7, 2023 | Road Safety, Safety Shorts
By K C Pawling, Road Safety and Loss Prevention Specialist I’m writing this about two weeks after a local (to where I live) NDOT employee was fatally injured by a vehicle while responding to a call which involved cleaning some corn gluten off a State highway. County...
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...
