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...
Jun 10, 2021 | Road Safety, Safety Shorts
By Tim Baxter, Road Safety and Loss Prevention Specialist From time to time, an accident will occur on a shared county line road. Road department management should review and ensure your county line road maintenance and signing interlocal agreements are up to date and...
Jun 10, 2021 | General Safety, Safety Shorts
By Chad Engle, Loss Prevention and Safety Specialist Many of NIRMA’s member county courthouses and other buildings are equipped with emergency generators that allow them to continue serving their constituents during a power outage. As with all electrical devices,...
Jun 10, 2021 | Law Safety, Safety Shorts
By Terry Baxter, Law Enforcement and Safety Specialist May 25, 2021, marked the one-year anniversary of the death of George Floyd which began a mass movement calling for changes in the way law enforcement agencies police society. There have been other notable deaths...
