Apr 2, 2024 | Road Safety, Safety Shorts
By K C Pawling, Road Safety and Loss Prevention Specialist As road department management and staff, we can be asked to wear many different hats within the county structure. I will not go through the many hats we can be asked to wear, but I will appeal to the...
Mar 4, 2024 | Road Safety, Safety Shorts
By K C Pawling, Road Safety and Loss Prevention Specialist I think most of us have heard the saying “we shouldn’t live life by looking in the rearview mirror.” I do not disagree with this saying, but there are times when we should pay closer attention to the rearview...
Feb 6, 2024 | Road Safety, Safety Shorts
By K C Pawling, Road Safety and Loss Prevention Specialist These last few weeks have been a challenge for many of the State’s counties and municipality road and street crews. I know that I do not have to tell many of you this, because you are living it. My oldest son...
Jan 10, 2024 | Road Safety, Safety Shorts
By K C Pawling, Road Safety and Loss Prevention Specialist Loss leader reports are one of the tools used by the Loss Prevention Team at NIRMA. “Loss leaders” are the most frequently submitted type of claim that we receive from members during a specified period of...
Dec 6, 2023 | Road Safety, Safety Shorts
By K C Pawling, Road Safety and Loss Prevention Specialist County road departments must install and maintain signs according to the latest edition of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD). I understand with the 864 pages in the MUTCD someone could get...
Nov 7, 2023 | Road Safety, Safety Shorts
By K C Pawling, Road Safety and Loss Prevention Specialist I’m writing this about two weeks after a local (to where I live) NDOT employee was fatally injured by a vehicle while responding to a call which involved cleaning some corn gluten off a State highway. County...
