Sep 1, 2021 | Road Safety, Safety Shorts
By Tim Baxter, Road Safety and Loss Prevention Specialist Low Water Crossings can be a huge benefit in reducing expense when replacing drainage structures on minimum maintenance and local roads, but they can also be a huge liability to the county if they are not...
Aug 10, 2021 | General Safety, Safety Shorts
By Chad Engle, Loss Prevention and Safety Specialist Seems like many of the calls I’ve been fielding lately have dealt with DOT issues. From the Clearinghouse to Random Drug and Alcohol testing. Let’s take a minute to clarify a few things. Regarding DOT updates, it...
Aug 1, 2021 | Road Safety, Safety Shorts
By Tim Baxter, Road Safety and Loss Prevention Specialist August is National Back to School Month. When schools open the end of August, school buses will be running again, and extra care should be taken when county road department employees are traveling county roads....
Jul 1, 2021 | Law Safety, Safety Shorts
By Terry Baxter, Law Enforcement and Safety Specialist A new U.S. Supreme Court ruling this past month related to a police officer’s warrantless entry into a person’s garage. The incident giving rise to Lange v. California began when a California Highway Patrol...
Jul 1, 2021 | Road Safety, Safety Shorts
By Tim Baxter, Road Safety and Loss Prevention Specialist Safety culture is the ways in which safety is managed in the workplace, and often reflects “the attitudes, beliefs, perceptions and values that employees share in relation to safety”. Every...
Jul 1, 2021 | General Safety, Safety Shorts
By Chad Engle, Loss Prevention and Safety Specialist The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) determined that during calendar year 2019, 697 people died due to car crashes resulting from drowsy driving. NHTSA...
