Check these tornado precautions
Spring is tornado season in the Midwest but did you know that tornadoes have been reported in every state and they can occur at any time of the year? When…
Category: Safety
Light April snow can become hard as a rock
In April, as late winter transitions into early spring, what little snow lingers on paved lots could become very dangerous. In commercial lots where truck…
Workplace Eye Wellness Month
Eye injuries are alarmingly frequent. Each year, more than 25,000 Americans visit the emergency room due to a workplace eye injury, according to the…
Poison Prevention Tips
When Jeff and Kathy Campbell’s daughter awoke coughing one night, her parents stumbled into a dark kitchen for cough syrup but returned instead with a…
More people working; More flu
The better the economy, the more people working. The more people working, the more flu. With the unemployment rate at 50 year lows, more people are out in…
Shut the file drawer
If you work with filing cabinets, it has probably happened to you. You snag yourself, or hit your knee on a file cabinet drawer left open. Or how about…
Tough break: A stiff-arm fall
Football players hit the ground hard, time after time, but they rarely break their arms. Yet, when the average person falls just once, it’s not unusual…
Snowblower injuries continue
It only takes one big snow storm and Emergency Room doctors know they will see an uptick in one kind of injury: finger amputations. Snowblowers, those…
Fireplace safety
Where there’s soot, there may soon be fire. Professional chimney cleaners say any soot deposits more than a quarter-inch thick present a fire hazard. The…
Read this before starting to shovel snow
Check these instructions from a specialist in ergonomics before you head out to tackle the beautiful white stuff: Keep your spine in an upright, neutral…