Sep 12, 2024 | Road Safety, Safety Shorts
By K C Pawling, Road Safety and Loss Prevention Specialist Well, if you’re a parent you may be recovering from the back-to-school push to get everything in place needed for your child’s return to the classroom. While some of you could be recovering from that, others...
Aug 5, 2024 | Road Safety, Safety Shorts
By K C Pawling, Road Safety and Loss Prevention Specialist OSHA reports that contact with or exposure to electricity continues to be one of the leading causes of workplace fatalities and injuries in the United States. Between 2011 and 2022, a total of 1,322 people...
Jul 3, 2024 | Road Safety, Safety Shorts
By K C Pawling, Road Safety and Loss Prevention Specialist Well, here we are, the dog days of summer. What does that mean exactly? I have always assumed that it meant “days that are not even fit for a dog.” But the Farmers’ Almanac tells us that the dog days of...
Jun 4, 2024 | Road Safety, Safety Shorts
By K C Pawling, Road Safety and Loss Prevention Specialist I think we have all heard some version of the phrase “our choices have consequences.” I know my wife and I often said this to our two boys while they were growing up. We let them make the choice they wanted...
May 9, 2024 | Road Safety, Safety Shorts
By K C Pawling, Road Safety and Loss Prevention Specialist Last month in my safety short article, I talked about the challenges we may have to overcome while we are having or trying to have safety meetings. Challenges may include getting the support needed from senior...
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...
