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Redwoods' Safety Newsletter |
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Reevaluating Lifeguard Positions as Seasons Change |
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This week marks the beginning of fall. With a new season, comes different light patterns and glare. Now is a great time to reevaluate your lifeguard positions to ensure guards are able to identify and respond to a potential victim as quickly as possible. We have compiled tips and tricks for testing every lifeguard's area of responsibility to ensure they are best positioned and can see from the top of the water to the bottom of the pool.
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Safety Sound Bites: Observations from the Field |
Every other week, we sit down with Jason Grissom, our Director of Technical Consulting, to hear about the timely observations our consultants are seeing in the field. These short audio clips focus on one specific topic and are approximately 5-6 minutes. This week, we discuss:
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Redwoods Launches our New Podcast |
You can't have safety for all without adequate and engaged staff. And yet safety for all is exactly what society now expects—just as the labor market is tighter than ever before.
In our new podcast, Staffing, Safety, Society, Redwoods' leadership discusses the connections between these themes. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
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Playtime is a common time when we see injuries happen between youth. Whether youth are pushing, colliding, or throwing items at each other, there are strategies staff can take to prevent these injuries.
As a quick refresher, distribute our micro-learning on preventing injuries during play to your staff to stop interactions between youth from escalating and resulting in an injury.
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Establishing Winter Weather Contracts
As we continue to see disruptions in supply chains and the tight labor market affecting many industries, now is a good time to make sure that you have strong, comprehensive contracts in place with any outside vendors you plan to use for snow removal.
Preventing Auto Accidents
As more staff begin to drive larger vehicles than they may be used to, we tend to see more accidents in parking lots and on the road. Using our Driver Skill Verification Checklist, evaluate if your drivers meet your organization's skill and knowledge requirements and safety criteria.
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