Jan 5, 2021 | General Safety, Safety Shorts
By Chad Engle, Loss Prevention and Safety Specialist Happy New Year! This will be NIRMA’s third year of funding two $500 Money for Minutes awards. These are for those member safety committees that conducted their quarterly meetings and submitted minutes for review...
Dec 1, 2020 | General Safety, Safety Shorts
By Chad Engle, Loss Prevention and Safety Specialist With the slowdown in road projects and maintenance brought on by winter, many counties shift work to removing and trimming troublesome trees in their rights-of-way. Tree trimming can be a dangerous combination of...
Dec 1, 2020 | Law Safety, Safety Shorts
By Terry Baxter, Law Enforcement and Safety Specialist The Law enforcement and correction officer occupation is an unpredictable environment and has a lot of physically demands. Due to these factors, officers are at a higher risk of sustaining on the job injuries more...
Dec 1, 2020 | Road Safety, Safety Shorts
By Tim Baxter, Road Safety and Loss Prevention Specialist Many counties begin preparing for the next construction seasons’ road and bridge projects in December and January. Knowing that, this topic was chosen for this month’s article to better assist our member...
Nov 10, 2020 | General Safety, Safety Shorts
By Chad Engle, Loss Prevention and Safety Specialist Lately I have been fielding questions relating to the Department of Transportation’s Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse (Clearinghouse). Everything from “Do I have to do this?” to “What is it?”, so it seemed like a good...
Nov 10, 2020 | Law Safety, Safety Shorts
By Terry Baxter, Law Enforcement and Safety Specialist I have covered this topic several times throughout this past year, but I see from traveling the state that not everyone agrees with the restrictions implemented, or maybe they think they are invincible, so I think...
