Click here to see what safety experts for leading companies say about off-the-job safety, and how their programs help their operations.

How You May Use The Reproducible Articles

* Use the articles 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.
* Use the 129 articles and 3,000 safety tips to send daily or weekly e-mails to all
   employees to build safety awareness and 24-hour safety attitudes.
* You may set up a website of the articles so employees can access off-the-job safety
   tips. For example, the driving articles will be helpful to parents with teenage drivers.
* Send the articles to other safety leaders in your organization.
* Print the articles and put them in a binder for use by employees in your library.
* The articles will save you valuable time in preparing safety material.
* The text and illustrations on the CD are in Microsoft Word format. You can easily
   excerpt or modify the text and the illustrations.

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  The DuPont company has a comprehensive off-the-job safety program. Its employees 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. FYI, about 5,000 workers die on the job every year.

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The Reproducible Articles are reader-friendly.
A unique feature of the Reproducible Articles is the use of
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.

Our Accident Epidemic:
Some Of The Victims Are Your Employees And Their Families

  Today, about 300 people will die in the U.S. due to accidents, over 95% of them off-the-job accidents. Tomorrow, another 300 will die accidentally. In the next seven days, over 2,000 will die, and about 120,000 will die in the next twelve months.
  A few unusual accidents make the news occasionally, but most serious accidents are not mentioned in a newspaper or rate only a paragraph on a back page.  In contrast, consider the coverage that would occur if these deaths were due to a plane crash or virus.
  Unfortunately, as a society we have come to accept 300 accidental deaths a day as "normal," when in fact almost every accidental death is preventable.

• In addition to the fatalities, every year about 30,000,000 Americans go to emergency rooms due to off-the-job accidents, 20,000,000 are temporarily disabled, and 200,000 are permanently disabled.

• Lifetime odds of dying accidentally are 1-in-30 for males, and 1-in-50 for females.

• Lifetime odds of dying in a motor vehicle accident are 1-in-100.

• Accidents are the leading cause of death for children, teens, and young adults, ages 1 to 41.

Click here for additional statistics and how the odds are calculated

How The Award-Winning Book,
Live Safely in a Dangerous World, Will Benefit Your Company

  To further reinforce your 24/7 safety message and give your employees and their families a safety reference they can use at all times, provide Live Safely in a Dangerous World to your employees.

  You may purchase copies, or print copies of the book for your employees under a licensing arrangement. You may modify the text and create your own cover and title, such as (Your Company Name) Family Safety Book.

  Preventing just one serious accident among all your employees and their dependents in the next few years will more than pay for the book. 

  To give you an idea how inexpensive the book is in relation to the potential benefits, one company recently printed 6,000 copies of their own version of the book for less than $5 per employee. Another company purchased 155 books for only $6.00 per employee.

  For licensing details, click here.

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Reproducible Articles And
Live Safely in a Dangerous World Background

  The Reproducible Articles and Live Safely in a Dangerous World 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, it 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 chain-saw topic by a safety trainer for a chain-saw 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. With all these readers, and additional readers from the Safety Times Reproducible Articles and Live Safely in a Dangerous World, the publisher has not received one complaint regarding the material.

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  If you would like to receive samples of four different Driving, Home, Leisure, and Kids articles in the actual Word format that you would use, please send your e-mail address. You may print the four Articles and share them with your  associates for comments. There is no obligation.

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