County Road Back to School Challenges

By K C Pawling, Road Safety and Loss Prevention Specialist Well, if you’re a parent you may be recovering from the back-to-school push to get everything in place needed for your child’s return to the classroom. While some of you could be recovering from that, others...

Membership Eligibility and Responsibility

By Chad Engle, Loss Prevention Manager and Safety Specialist Recently, the loss prevention staff completed the final deliveries of the new NIRMA Safety Committee Resource Handbooks, so all members should now have their paper copies in hand. In addition to the paper...

Training Safely

By Todd Duncan, Law Enforcement and Safety Specialist In last month’s Safety Short, we discussed the important role training plays in enhancing safety and reducing risk. In this installment, we will address the importance of conducting training safely. One of the most...

August Safety Observances

By Chad Engle, Loss Prevention Manager and Safety Specialist Man, I hate to say it, but summer is almost over.  I know that the summer solstice is not until September 22nd but for all intents and purposes summer is over when school starts and around here, kids go back...

Take A Moment to Look Up

By K C Pawling, Road Safety and Loss Prevention Specialist OSHA reports that contact with or exposure to electricity continues to be one of the leading causes of workplace fatalities and injuries in the United States. Between 2011 and 2022, a total of 1,322 people...