Keeping Your Workplace Safe and Sound
Employees across the country drive to work every morning without considering safety concerns at their workplace. However, accidents do happen at work, and an injury can cause loss of work hours and productivity for the employer. For the injured employee, an accident...
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What to Include in Your Car’s Emergency Kit
If your car stops working on the side of the road or in a parking lot, or if you are in an accident, do you feel prepared with emergency supplies at reach? Having a well-stocked emergency kit in your car can give you the peace of mind to travel confidently. While you...
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Lingering Symptoms of an Accident
If you have been involved in an accident, you may brush it off if the injuries are not severe in the aftermath. However, symptoms and side effects from injuries sustained from a vehicle crash, a slip or fall, or other accident might not present themselves until days...
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The Ultimate Guide to Swimming Safety For Kids
Source: Are you worried the lifeguard will have to give you CPR this summer for cardiac arrest while you worry over your child’s safety while she’s swimming? Do you wonder what you can do to prevent your child from drowning? Water safety, especially for young...
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What Should I Do If I’m Injured On the Job?
When you arrive at work every day, you are expecting to have a safe and uneventful time. No matter where you work, whether in a cubicle or on a factory floor, you do have a chance of becoming injured. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that approximately 2.9...
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Signs of Possible Nursing Home Abuse
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes that more than 1.7 million older adults live in skilled nursing facilities throughout the country. These facilities, once known as nursing homes, serve older adults with a variety of complex medical challenges and...
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Work Zone Safety
Each year in the spring, National Work Zone Awareness Week (NWZAW) is held to bring national attention to motorist and worker safety and mobility issues in work zones. This year, the 2018 National Work Zone Awareness Week was hosted by the state of Illinois in...
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Keeping Your Family Safe in the Water
This month is a busy one for most families, packed full of graduations and final days of school, field days and other celebrations. However, after all the business subsides, summer will be upon us. Before you begin pool days and trips to the beach, assure your family...
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Are You a Distracted Driver?
Have you ever been driving behind another vehicle that was moving erratically? You may have felt unsafe as the car swerved and then over corrected, and you may have even slowed down to increase the distance between your cars. Twenty years ago, you may have thought...
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How Proper Fall Protection Can Prevent Serious Injury
As spring arrives with a new construction season, it’s a good time discuss fall protection, which has remained OSHA’S number one employer violations for a long time. With fall protection comes some of the most serious injuries for employees who have to work from...
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