Each year there are firefighters, emergency medical personnel, law enforcement personnel, tow operators and other responders to highway incidents are struck and killed while operating on the highway.

For many years the terms "safety" and "risk management" have been inappropriately used interchangeably in the fire service. Risk management is a multi-step decision making process used to: identify ...

Regardless of the work setting, workplace safety is a topic that management should address and all employees should understand. Workplace safety education helps prevent accidents; promotes safety ...

Let that be a lesson to you!" We've all heard that admonition and conveyed it to others, often over and over about the same lesson. Clearly, there is room for improvement in our efforts to really ...

BREMERTON — The chance to shoot a fire hose? Third-graders at Crownhill Elementary School jumped at the opportunity Monday to open up the nozzles of Bremerton Fire Department's hoses as part of a ...

Supervisors should set specific safety behavior expectations and demonstrate proper procedures rather than just issuing vague directives. Address unsafe acts immediately by engaging with employees, ...

The National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (NIHCC) has a long and storied list of accomplishments. Many practices begun at the NIHCC on the basis of NIH research have become the standard of ...

KCCI EIGHT NEWS AT FIVE. TURNING TRAGEDY INTO AN EFFORT TO SAVE LIVES. THE MARSHALLTOWN COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT AND THE MARSHALLTOWN Y ARE TEAMING UP TO TEACH CHILDREN HOW TO BE SAFE AROUND THE ...

Stop, drop and roll! I learned this lesson — and many more important safety lessons — at a Naperville Safety Town as a child. There are many miniature safety towns, villages and parks around ...