Category: Safety Blog

Good afternoon and Happy Fire Prevention Week. This safety snippet is a link to Raptor’s Public-School Works website for some fire safety tips as well as links to electric/battery safety information. The Fire Extinguisher Fact Sheet is from our friends at NFPA. Enjoy your long weekend and stay safe!

https://corp.publicschoolworks.com/resource/fire-safety-in-schools-6-tips-to-minimize-risk/

Good afternoon and Happy Thursday! This week’s safety snippet is from OSHA and deals with tree removal safety. If you want more information on a particular item of tree trimming, there are links at the bottom. Enjoy your day and have a safe weekend!

Happy Friday everyone! This week’s safety snippet we are focusing on Lockout/Tagout (LOTO). Copy and paste the link below to see OSHA’s resources and a toolkit to help improve your LOTO Program. Have a safe and enjoyable weekend!

https://www.osha.gov/control-hazardous-energy/program

Good morning and Happy Friday! This week’s safety snippet pertains to working at heights and steps you can take to minimize your risk of falling. Be safe out there and enjoy your weekend!

Good morning and happy Friday!! This week’s safety snippet is from Safety Unlimited and touches on something I am sure most of us have done at one time or another, take a shortcut at work. Most of the time nothing bad happens but unfortunately the more we get away with taking shortcuts the more at risk we become. Stay safe and enjoy your weekend!!

Good morning and Happy Friday! We hope everyone has had a safe and successful first week of school. This week’s Safety Snippet, while helpful for your work environment, is more for you and your family to become better prepared should a disaster or emergency strike. September is Emergency Preparedness Month and here are a few resources from FEMA and Ready.gov to assist you in becoming more prepared. Stay safe and enjoy your weekend!

https://www.ready.gov/september

Good Morning and Happy Friday! This week’s safety snippet is from School Safety and is a toolkit full of resources covering the following topics: Bullying and Cyberbullying, Child Exploitation, Emergency Planning, Cybersecurity, Mental Health, School Climate, Threat Assessment and Reporting, Targeted Violence, and Infectious Disease/Public Health. It also has several other hyperlinks from a grant finder to school safety/readiness checklists.

In closing, we want to take this Friday to thank and recognize all the Facility, Maintenance, and Custodial staff for your tremendous hard work throughout the summer to get all of your buildings ready for the school year. We wish all of you a safe and relaxing Labor Day Weekend!

Good afternoon and Happy Friday!! As we are fast approaching the start of school, we thought we would put together a quick handout of the common fire and safety violations we see. Enjoy and feel free to use how you see fit. Have a great weekend and stay safe!

Good morning and happy Friday! This week’s Safety Snippet is part of OSHA’s Safe and Sound Week 2024. This is a Job Hazard Analysis Power Point to aid you and your staff in conducting job hazard analyses to prevent injuries. Enjoy your weekend and stay safe!

Good morning and Happy Friday! As we close in on the new school year this week’s safety snippet is a checklist packet, from some of our other BOCES partners, that covers are few things that we look for during safety and fire inspections. Feel free to share with your teachers who will hopefully develop and maintain good habits, at the start of the school year, for a safer learning environment. Enjoy your weekend and stay safe out there!

Good morning and happy Friday! While this is an older advisory it is a good refresher that gained a lot of attention this week in our state safety group. The discussion was in regard to other electrically operated equipment such as gym curtain dividers and bleachers. The result was that there should be signage and training for these electrically operated devices as well. Enjoy your weekend and stay safe!

Good morning and happy Friday! This week’s safety snippet is a refresher on all things fire extinguishers from the NFPA and Fire Equipment Manufacturers’ Association. Enjoy your weekend and stay safe.