Nov 7, 2024 | Road Safety, Safety Shorts
By K C Pawling, Road Safety and Loss Prevention Specialist A portion of my MSHA training this year was regarding Truck Safety and Operation. Like most of my trainings, this led to some great conversation regarding truck inspections and whether our county road...
Oct 16, 2024 | Road Safety, Safety Shorts
By K C Pawling, Road Safety and Loss Prevention Specialist For as long as I can remember, October has been fire prevention month. While I was in elementary school this month always included fire truck rides, little plastic fire hats, Smokey Bear and a lot of reading...
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...