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Water damage mitigation for businesses
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Dryer fire prevention in residential properties
Help prevent dryer vent fires in your residential properties.
The importance of conducting criminal background checks
If a person commits a crime while they are “on the clock”, how does that affect their employer?
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Administrative/policies
- Apartment safety checklist
- Addressing the risk of active shooter incidents in the workplace
- Cyber liability
- Effective customer incident handling | En Español
- Protect Your business Against cyber attacks
- Real estate lock and key security checklist
- Reasonable care: What is it and why should you care?
- The Importance of Conducting Criminal Background Checks
- Violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act
- Water management program for general industry
Contractual Risk Transfer
Slips, Trips, and Falls
- Preventing slips and falls | En Español
- Slip trip and fall risk assessment tool
- Snow and ice removal programs
- Snow and ice removal: What you need to know
- Snow and ice removal/treatment log | En Español
Swimming Pools and Playgrounds
- Swimming pool safety
- Swimming pool safety at human services facilities
- Playground safety: Play it safe
- Playground safety
- Swimming pools: Avoid dangerous waters
Miscellaneous
Fire Safety
- Fire extinguisher use and selection
- Prepare automatic sprinklers for winter
- Inspect fire extinguishers to ensure proper operation
- Step-by-step fire extinguisher use (Infographic)
- Is your fire protection system NFPA-compliant?
- NFPA 13R sprinkler protection
- NFPA 13R sprinklers — Is your building fully protected?
- Dry-pipe fire suppression
- Fire protection impairment program
- Step-by-step fire protection impairment (Infographic)
- Microbiologically-influenced corrosion in fire sprinkler systems
- Fire sprinkler maintenance and operation
- Sprinkler system testing
- Guide to fire pump testing and maintenance
- Grilling safety tips | En Español
- Grill safety at residential properties (Infographic)
- Safely store idle pallets to minimize risk
- The right way to store idle pallets
- Store idle pallets properly to lower fire risk (Infographic)
- Flammable liquids
- Hot work at senior living facilities
- Dryer vent safety | En Español
- Exterior insulation and finish systems (EIFS)
- Automatic sprinkler plan review
- Help Prevent Dryer Vent Fires in Your Residential Properties
- Hot Work: Keep Your Building, Workers and Visitors Safe
- Maintain fire doors and keep them closed
- Lithium-ion batteries: Minimize fire hazards
- CPVC piping in automatic sprinkler systems
- Electric vehicle charging stations: Minimize your risk
Electrical
- How to help prevent an electrical room fire
- Infrared thermography
- Preventing electrical fires
- Protecting against electrical power surges
- Electrical preventive maintenance (EPM) programs
- Electric vehicle charging stations
- Thermographic surveys to maintain electrical systems
- Electrical fires and arc-fault circuit interrupters
Wildfires
- 8 steps to prepare your business for wildfire
- Protecting commercial buildings from wildfire
- Take steps to reduce risk in wildfire-prone areas
- Infographic: Wildfire safe area
- Are you in a Wildland-Urban Interface region?
- Be prepared during wildfire season
Hurricanes and high winds
- Reducing tree damage from windstorms
- Preparing your business for stormy weather
- High wind checklist for single-ply membrane roof covers
- Selecting windows to withstand a hurricane
- Extreme tropical weather illustrates importance of emergency planning
- High wind checklist for large commercial doors
- High wind checklist for metal edge flashing
- Hurricane Ida
- Hurricane Henri
- Protect your business during hurricane season
- Hotels – Preventing avoidable loss from wind-driven rain
Roof maintenance and protection
- How hail guards help protect roof-mounted HVAC equipment
- Preparing commercial roofs for hurricanes and high winds
- Roof edge flashing installation and maintenance
- Proper roof drainage
- Roof cover maintenance and repair
- Roof-mounted equipment maintenance
- 8 ways to maintain commercial roofs
- Photovoltaic roof inspection guide
- How to select a commercial roof contractor
- Roof protection for habitational buildings
- Preventing roof collapse due to snow and ice
- Danger of Snow and Ice on Rooftops
Flood/water
- 5 actions to reduce water damage
- Flood property protection
- Hotels – Preventing avoidable loss from wind-driven rain
- How water monitoring systems can help prevent water damage
- Reducing the risk of flood damage
- Severe weather checklist for businesses - Hurricanes
- Severe weather checklist for businesses - Wind, rain and hail
- Severe weather checklist for businesses – Winter weather
- Severe weather pre-planning checklist for businesses
- Water damage mitigation for businesses
- Water damage response plan for businesses
- Water mitigation roles and responsibilities
- Water mitigation self-assessment
- Water mitigation self-audit for businesses
- Wet work permits for businesses
- Wet work programs to mitigate water damage
- Wet work valve tags for businesses
- What to do when flooding is imminent
Weather-other
- Storm damage prevention for property managers
- Preparing a business for the holiday/winter weather season
- Protecting buildings from unusual weather
- Preparing buildings for snow and ice storms
- Last minute checklist for severe winter weather
- Protect your building from winter weather
- 8 ways to prevent frozen pipe damage
- Apartment communities: Prevent avoidable damage from severe storms
Administration
- 2023 Fleet risk environment
- Commercial auto accident reporting kit | En Español
- Post-accident reporting | En Español
- Sample fleet safety/driver safety manual
- Sample fleet safety self-assessment
- Drug and alcohol testing of drivers
- Fleet safety responsibility and safety committees
- Safe driving commitment form — Co. vehicle operator | En Español
- Driver qualification: Lowering requirements puts an organization at risk
- Motor vehicle records (MVR)
- Non-Owned Vehicle Management
- Do I need to comply with DOT requirements?
- Small fleets need attention, too!
Distracted Driving
- Distracted and inattentive driving (with sample policy)
- Distracted and inattentive driving infographic
- The fewer the distractions, the safer the drive | En Español
- Identify and address driving distractions
- Distracted driving — GPS navigation systems
- Distracted driving prevention technology
Driver Training
Specialty Vehicles and Trailers
- Managing large passenger van safety
- 15-passenger van backing safety checklist
- Preventing large van backing accidents
- Preventing large van backing accidents (poster)
- Preventing large van backing accidents (infographic)
- Driving large passenger vans: Rollovers
- Preventing large passenger van rollover accidents (infographic)
- Trailer safety (infographic)
- Trailer inspection (infographic)
Telematics and Dashcams
- Why telematics?
- Telematics selection guide — Basic
- Telematics selection guide — Advanced
- Telematics implementation & coaching guide
- Telematics related smartphone apps: Improving driver safety
- Dashcams: Which is best for you?
Vehicle Management
- ADAS — Reducing collisions with ADAS
- ADAS — Advanced driver assistance systems: Driver education
- Catalytic convertor thefts
- Inspection and maintenance of non-regulated vehicles
- Vehicle inspection report form
- Pre-trip vehicle inspection | En Español
- Vehicle theft prevention | En Español
Discounted vendor partnerships (Sign in to view content)
- Lytx DriveCam
- Driver's Alert
Administrative/policies
- Emergency action plans
- Guidance for forming an effective safety committee
- Creating a safety culture
- 10 ways to help prevent accidents and injuries
- Incident report form | En Español
- The workforce is changing
- Make every month a time to focus on safety
- No Harm No Foul Flyer (Admin)
- No Harm No Foul Poster (Admin)
- No Harm No Foul scorecard
- Job hazard analysis | En Español
- Job Hazard Analysis Form
- Arc flash safety
- Young and inexperienced workers in non-agricultural jobs
Ergonomics
- Lifting safety
- Ergonomics screening tool
- Manual material handling
- Safety matters: Ergonomics for repetitive motions
- Ergonomic screening tool - Assembly task evaluation
- How to help prevent back injuries
- Five simple rules to reduce lifting injuries
- Ergonomics screening tool: Pushing & pulling tasks
- Ergonomic tips for your home workspace
Falls from elevations
Machinery
- Safety matters: Machine guarding
- Safety matters: Use the machine guard
- Lockout/tagout equipment assessment checklist
Injury handling and Successful Return-to-Work
- Successful Return-to-Work Program overview
- Using the 24/7 nurse triage hotline
- Choose the right provider to treat your injured employees
- Why is a Successful Return-to-Work Program so important?
- Create a Successful Return-to-Work Program
- 4-Step Rx to Control Your Experience Mod
Chemical handling
- Bloodborne pathogens in the workplace
- Hazard communication program for chemicals
- Safety matters: Chemical safety in the workplace
- Safety matters: Heat stress and heat-related illness
- Preventing CO poisoning in your facility
- Manage heat-related risks to minimize work-related injuries
Workplace violence
Emergency preparedness
- Building a disaster recovery plan
- Business continuity planning for small businesses
- Severe weather emergency preparedness
Vacant buildings/reopening/civil unrest
- Maintain closed or idle buildings during civil unrest
- Take ACTION to weather the potential storm of civil unrest
- Maintaining closed or idle work facilities
- Strategies for protecting idle construction projects
Other
- Securing flat screens to withstand earthquakes
- Help prevent robbery in your retail store
- Modern commercial building codes
- Identify indicators of fraud to help protect your business
- Reputation management – What have you got to lose?
- Crisis management
- Questions Every Condo Owner Should Ask
- Don’t Cut Safety Short – Five Tips to Guard Against Powered Mower Accidents
- Protect Yourself and Others During Landscaping Operations
- 5 tips to reduce risk for remote workers
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