Sep 1, 2020 | General Safety, Safety Shorts
By Chad Engle, Loss Prevention and Safety Specialist I have seen a few sets of safety committee minutes that included something along the lines of, “incident reports not available so incidents were not discussed.” I am not certain if this is because no one was able to...
Sep 1, 2020 | General Safety, Safety Shorts
By Chad Engle, Loss Prevention and Safety Specialist It is common knowledge that alcohol burns. We add ethanol (grain) to our fuel and use high ABV alcohol to add flames to fancy drinks or in cooking. Have you ever seen the flaming onion volcano at a Japanese...
Aug 1, 2020 | Law Safety, Safety Shorts
By Terry Baxter, Law Enforcement and Safety Specialist Law enforcement agencies are reviewing and making changes to their use of force policies in light of the recent events involving excessive force and the aftermath that followed the death of George Floyd. One...
Aug 1, 2020 | Road Safety, Safety Shorts
By Tim Baxter, Road Safety and Loss Prevention Specialist August is National Back to School Month. School boards and staff are formulating plans on how to return students to school as safely as possible due to COVID-19. If schools do open the end of August, school...
Aug 1, 2020 | General Safety, Safety Shorts
By Chad Engle, Loss Prevention and Safety Specialist Some months I rack my brain trying to come up with a topic for my Safety Shorts article, this month was not one of those months. Today I received an email from a member county to let me know they had received not...
Jul 1, 2020 | Law Safety, Safety Shorts
By Terry Baxter, Law Enforcement and Safety Specialist Use of Force, I know this topic has been addressed over and over but based on what we continue to see nationwide and the growing push from various organizations wanting to provide input on changes to law...
