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This year
over 125,000 people
of all ages will die in accidents in the U.S.
Over
35,000,000 (about 1-in-8) of us will
suffer injuries that require medical attention.
Some of these injuries are life-altering.
These statistics show that accidents
can happen to anyone.
Your attention to off-the-job safety will help your employees
and their families avoid being included in future statistics.
Are You Looking For Easy-To-Use Safety Articles
That
Will Help You Reduce On-The-Job And Off-The-Job Accidents?
The
Award-Winning Material In The
Safety
Times Reproducible Articles Will Help You:
1. Reduce your workers' comp cases.
2. Increase your
productivity and profits.
3. Help your employees and their families
avoid accidents, particularly serious accidents.
According to a
recent National Safety Council study:
"Statistical analyses
indicate that companies promoting
Off-The-Job safety have lower workplace injury/illness rates."
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The Reproducible Articles are
reader-friendly.
A unique feature of the Reproducible Articles is the use of
introductory
light-humored illustrations and true stories to help get the points across.
All it took to turn a
routine April morning commute into a 98-car nightmare of
wreckage and mayhem was a little rain, sudden bright
sunshine, and some careless drivers.
"This is a wreck that just didn't need
to happen," said a spokesman for the Missouri Highway Patrol in St.
Louis. "The real blame is on people driving too fast for the
conditions and following each other too closely in inclement
weather. Vehicles were kicking up a lot of mist and causing glare.
Someone looked ahead and saw traffic backed up, hit the brakes, and
then started to skid. That's how this whole mess got started."
For about 40 people, the pileup ended in
an emergency room. Amazingly, no one ended up in a morgue.
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How
The Safety Times Reproducible Articles
Will
Benefit You And Your Company
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Reduce on-the-job accidents by instilling 24-hour safety attitudes.
Safety is not
a switch you turn on when you come to work.
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Improve on-the-job productivity. Sixty percent of lost-time injuries are due to off-the-job accidents.
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Reduce workers' compensation claims related to off-the-job
injuries.
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Improve your safety culture and employee morale.
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Help your
employees and their families avoid fatal and other serious off-the-job
accidents by giving them information
they need to develop Personal Safety Plans.
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Lower medical and other expenses.
The National Safety Council estimates off-the-job
accidents cost employers over $700 per employee per year in medical and
other costs. Costs
approximate $1,000 per employee per year when you
include medical costs for dependents.
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For a worksheet to
determine your costs,
click here.
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Many topics have direct application to on-the-job safety issues,
particularly driving.
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We offer two
options to help you instill 24-hour
safety attitudes, and
reduce on-the-job and off-the-job injuries.
(1) The
Safety Times Reproducible Articles,
a library of 129 safety articles
that may be copied.
(2)
The Safety Book For Your Family,
which is an e-book.
You may print copies of the book for your
employees.
You may edit the book and use your own cover if
you wish.
The goal is to
encourage employees
and their
families to
develop 24-hour Personal Safety Plans, at work and away from
work.
More information on the
book is available below.
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The Safety Times Reproducible Articles
How You May Use The
129 Reproducible Articles
● Use the
articles or excerpts in your publications, bulletins, or
paycheck inserts.
● You may
make as many copies of the Reproducible Articles as you wish for safety meetings,
bulletin boards, etc. You may add your logo. Encourage employees to share the
safety
tips with their families.
One valuable use of the articles is in safety meetings, with
employees sharing stories of accidents and near-misses to drive
home the importance of 24-hour safety.
● Use the 129 articles and 3,000 safety tips to send e-mails
to employees to build safety awareness and 24-hour
safety attitudes.
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You may set up a website of the articles so
employees can access off-the-job safety tips. For example, the driving articles will help parents
with teenage drivers.
● Send
the articles to other safety leaders in your organization.
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The text and illustrations
are in Microsoft Word format on a CD.
You can easily excerpt or modify the text and the illustrations. The
articles are also available in a downloadable PDF format.
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As our
Partial Client List shows, many leading organizations recognize the value of
using the Safety Times Reproducible Articles in their safety
programs.
Click List of Topics
to see the complete list of the 129 Articles you receive.
20 Driving safety topics
30 Home safety topics
49 Leisure & General safety topics
30 Kids' safety topics
Over 120 Illustrations and 80 True Stories
make the Reproducible Articles interesting, relevant, and readable.
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Click
here to see what safety
experts for leading companies say
about
off-the-job safety, and how it will benefit your operations.
As one
recent purchaser of a Safety Times product said,
"If all our efforts prevent even one accident it will be
worth it."
Click here
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PDF book chapter
written
by the author and publisher that shows you how to
organize and
implement an off-the-job safety program in your
company.
Click here to view a recent National Safety
Council
article quoting the author and publisher on off-the-job
safety.
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Why Every Member Of Your Team
Needs A Personal Safety Plan
We have an "Accident Epidemic" in this country.
This "epidemic" affects far more people than the viruses that grab the
headlines.
With a Personal Safety Plan, we significantly reduce
our chances of being involved in a serious accident.
Without a Personal Safety Plan, these are the odds we face.
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Over
125,000 Americans will die accidentally in the next twelve months.
Over 35,00 on the roads, over 60,000 at home, and over 25,000 in
public locations.
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Lifetime odds of
dying accidentally are about 1-in-30 for males (more
than 3%), and
1-in-50
for females (2%).
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Accidents are the leading cause of death for
kids, teens, and young adults, ages 1 to 41.
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Every year over 35,000,000 (1-in-8) of us need
medical attention due to off-the-job accidents, 20,000,000+ are temporarily disabled, and
200,000+ are permanently
disabled.
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for more statistics and the calculation of the odds
As the following examples show, the good news is
that
a planned approach to safety makes employees and families safer.
The DuPont company has a comprehensive off-the-job
safety program. Its employees and their families have far fewer off-the-job accidents
than the national average.
A program by the U.S. Navy emphasizing off-duty recreational safety has
reduced fatalities by about 50 percent.
Nearly 70 percent of boating fatalities involve an operator who didn't
take a boating safety class. Boating fatalities are down over 50% in
the last 30 years due to an emphasis on safety.
Additional studies by the National Safety Council prove that off-the-job
safety efforts reduce accidents.
Also, on-the-job fatalities have declined significantly over the years
due to a safety emphasis and the safety training provided to
employees.
Reproducible Articles Background
The
Safety Times Reproducible Articles
are the product of more than ten
years’ research. Nearly all of these updated topics were
published at least twice in the
Safety Times newsletter from 1992
through 2002.
The Reproducible Articles are
updated periodically every year as new statistics and
information become available.
The
information for each topic
comes from many sources. Before publishing each topic in the
newsletter, the topic was
reviewed by at least two CSPs (Certified Safety Professionals),
or by a CSP and a subject-matter expert. Children’s topics
were reviewed by a representative of the Safe Kids Worldwide
organization;
boating topics by the United States Coast Guard; the chainsaw
topic by a safety trainer for a chainsaw manufacturer, and so
on.
The
circulation of the newsletter exceeded 20,000; pass-along readership,
however, was considerably higher, as some recipients paid for
the privilege of copying the material. Safety Times clients have included
Alcoa, Avery Dennison, Boeing, Dow Corning, ExxonMobil, General
Motors, Georgia-Pacific, Honeywell, SBC, Sprint, the U.S. Postal
Service, and hundreds of other corporations and organizations.
These articles also appear in the award-winning book, Live Safely in a Dangerous
World.
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Click here to see how
The Safety Book For Your Family
benefits your employees
The
Safety Book For Your Family
is an updated e-book version of our original paperback
book,
Live Safely in a Dangerous World.
The e-book has updated statistics and contact
information, and a few new safety tips.
Book awards and reviews for
Live Safely in
a Dangerous World
Live Safely in a Dangerous World
was selected from over 1500 entries as one of
the
Ten Outstanding Books of the Year in the 2003 Independent
Publisher Book Awards competition.
Live Safely in a Dangerous World
also won the award as
"Most Likely To Save The Planet" in the 2003 Independent
Publisher Book Awards competition.
Live Safely in a Dangerous
World
is a proud winner of the 2006 Parent to Parent
Adding Wisdom Award,
the only award program to ever be honored by Disney.com.
"Our Family Testers found
Live Safely in
a Dangerous World to be a great resource for not only commonly overlooked
dangers but potential dilemmas we never considered. We have an accident
epidemic in today's society and this book provides information to develop
customized Personal Safety Plans for every family member. A true treasure and a
must have for every household!" ~ Jodie Lynn, syndicated parenting/health
expert, CEO/founder of
www.AddingWisdomAward.com, and
author of parenting book, Mom CEO (Chief Everything Officer) - Having, Doing and
Surviving It All! (June 2006).
“Cartoon-style
illustrations add a touch of light humor to this very serious
and practical guide to minimizing the odds of dangerous or fatal
accidents… a well-rounded, erudite, and first-rate primer warning
of obvious and subtle daily hazards. Highly recommended; careful
perusal of the pages could potentially save lives.”
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Rated 5 of 5 stars on Amazon by The Midwest Book Review
"A
must for every family! Safety tips that could save your life or
the life of a loved one."
—
Howard J. Chapel, D.C.
Diplomate of the American Board of
Chiropractic Orthopedics
"A
wealth of safety information, and in a very useful format. This
clear, concise guide creates a safety awareness that is important
for everyone."
—
Christy L. Tharenos, M.D.
The book won a 2003 Writer’s Digest nonfiction category award.
In
addition to the awards for the book, a publisher in China has
published a Chinese-language edition.
Click here for information about the
background of the book and author
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