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How Your Company Will Benefit From
The Safety Times Reproducible Articles

    1. Reduce on-the-job accidents and workers' comp cases.
    2. Increase productivity and net income.
    3. Prevent deaths and serious injuries to your employees
   
    and their families.

According to a recent National Safety Council study:
"Statistical analyses indicate that companies promoting
 Off-The-Job safety have lower workplace injury/illness rates."

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.

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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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How The Safety Times Reproducible Articles
Will Benefit You, Your Associates, And Your Company

* Develop 24-hour safety attitudes which will reduce on-the-job injuries.
* Improve on-the-job productivity. Sixty percent of lost-time injuries are due
   to off-the-job accidents.
* Prevent serious off-the-job injuries to your employees and their families.
* Reduce workers' compensation claims related to off-the-job injuries.
* 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 add medical costs for dependents. Other costs include lost productivity, training
   new workers, lost sales, and benefit and administrative costs.
  * Estimate your company's costs by multiplying your employees by $1,000.
     Then divide the estimated costs by your company's pre-tax profit margin to
     determine the revenue that is needed to pay for off-the-job accidents.
       For example, a company with 1,000 employees will probably have about $1 million in
   
   off-the-job accident costs. If the pre-tax profit margin is around 10%, the company needs
   
   $10 million in revenue just to pay for off-the-job accidents to employees and their families.

 
* For a worksheet to determine your costs, click here.
* Add variety to your safety meetings.
* Improve employee morale and your safety culture.

  The value of the Safety Times Reproducible Articles is that you have an easy-to-use, comprehensive, and cost-effective way to help you accomplish your safety objectives.

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Click List of Topics to see the complete list of the 129 Reproducible Articles.

20 Driving safety topics
30 Home safety topics
49 Leisure & General safety topics
30 Kids' safety topics

Click Sample Articles to print free PDF samples of the Reproducible Articles.
You may use these copies - no obligation.
Note - the PDF version will print smaller than the actual Reproducible Articles you will receive.

Over 120 Illustrations and 80 True Stories
make the Reproducible Articles interesting, relevant, and readable.

  As our Partial Client List shows, many leading organizations recognize the value of using the Safety Times Reproducible Articles in their safety programs.

  Click here for a downloadable book chapter that shows you how to organize and implement an off-the-job safety program. Section 4, Planning Your Program, and Section 5, Implementing Your Program, will be of particular value.

For a sampling of some hazards the
Reproducible Articles will help everyone deal with, click here

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To Order The Reproducible Articles
For Only $79 (free shipping), Click Here

  When you buy the Reproducible Articles, you will receive a copy of a book chapter that shows you how to organize and implement an off-the-job safety program.
  In addition,
you will also receive a complimentary copy of the family safety book,
Live Safely in a Dangerous World, a $19.95 value.

More information follows on the benefits
of the Reproducible Articles and your off-the-job safety program.

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As the following examples show, the good news is that
a planned approach to safety will improve your operations,
 and make your employees and their families safer.

  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

  An off-the-job safety program is a continuation of your wellness program. Wellness and off-the-job safety have the same goals, i.e., you're trying to influence people in a way that helps the employee and the employer.

  Encouraging people to practice good safety habits is no different than encouraging people to practice good eating and exercise habits.

  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

  The key to keeping your employees and their families safe is to follow customized Personal Safety Plans.

  The value of the Reproducible Articles is that they provide your employees with the safety tips and other information they need to develop Personal Safety Plans for every family member.

All Of These Benefits Are Available For Only $79

Preventing just one on-the-job or off-the-job accident in the next few years will pay for the Reproducible Articles many times over.

Order The Reproducible Articles Here

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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