Safety Coach Dog-Tired When you encourage everyone on your team to prioritize sleep health and attentive driving, you’re also prioritizing safety. Want to try a new approach? Here’s an idea: Throw out the term “microsleep” during your next team meeting. Ask if anyone knows what it means. Then share this definition: A microsleep is a …
Risk Reduction Car crashes are the leading cause of preventable death for teens, and DriveitHOME, a program of the National Safety Council, is committed to keeping new drivers safe by getting parents and caregivers more involved as their teens learn to drive. In partnership with Honda, DriveitHOME is offering parents, caregivers and stakeholders a free …
Change driver behavior with our creative resources and your ongoing educational efforts. Share this silent looping file in your lobbies, breakrooms and other places where you post information on video monitors. Your employees will learn answers to these questions (and much, much more): DIRECT DOWNLOAD: Go to this transfer portal to download the mp4 file of this silent …
Safety CoachBuckle Up for Holiday Travel In the coming days, millions of Americans will jam roads and airports during the long Thanksgiving weekend. Some will hop in the back seat of a ride-share vehicle on their way to or from the airport. Will they buckle up? What reason do people give for not buckling up …
November 2022 Safety Coach: Feast on Two Helpings of Safety Read More »
Stand Tall Whether your coworkers are playing host to a big gathering this Thanksgiving or traveling to visit friends and relatives, you can help keep them safe by building and maintaining a culture of safety in the workplace. Safety learned on the job is carried home. Traditionally, the Thanksgiving holiday weekend is one of the …
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Safety CoachWorld of Difference During the first quarter of this year, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates 1,063 people died in crashes in Texas, an increase of 4.8% over 2021. That’s scary, particularly as we inch closer to the Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday driving periods when alcohol-impaired crashes typically spike. Looking across the …
Reach Down, Lift Them Up Impairment is not a new safety issue in the workplace. Alcohol and the use of other drugs, including marijuana and opioids, long have been on the radar. What’s new is more employers are taking a broader look at other causes of impairment, from fatigue and stress to mental health conditions. …
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Generally, people use marijuana for one of two reasons: medicinal benefits or recreational purposes. In many states today, it is legal to purchase and use marijuana. Texas allows cannabidiol (CBD) and low-THC products. However, I feel it is unfortunate that we associate any drug capable of producing impairment with the term “recreational” because of the …
If we can learn anything from the last few years, it’s that we all have limits. Gathering rooms that once had a limit of 500, per fire code, became vacant for months on end, only to get new, even more limited capacities, per COVID code and social distancing guidelines. For many years, laws have regulated …
