Aug 1, 2021 | Road Safety, Safety Shorts
By Tim Baxter, Road Safety and Loss Prevention Specialist August is National Back to School Month. When schools open the end of August, school buses will be running again, and extra care should be taken when county road department employees are traveling county roads....
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...
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...
May 6, 2021 | Road Safety, Safety Shorts
By Tim Baxter, Road Safety and Loss Prevention Specialist I have received thousands of calls in the 18 plus years I have worked part time and full time for NIRMA concerning different signing and liability issues related to county roads. Some of the road related calls...
Apr 5, 2021 | Road Safety, Safety Shorts
By Tim Baxter, Road Safety and Loss Prevention Specialist Over the years, NIRMA has received a number of claims involving workplace injuries that easily could have been avoided if proper care and attention to detail would have been exercised. Included in these injury...
Mar 11, 2021 | Road Safety, Safety Shorts
By Tim Baxter, Road Safety and Loss Prevention Specialist One of the important items found missing from the Internal Road Department Assessments conducted in 2017 and 2018 was a comprehensive Road Department Safety Manual. Only 25 of 82 members at the time, or 30%,...
