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Saturday, December 6th, 2008
Don’t be Thick About Ice Safety - Add to Your Family Emergency Plan
Frozen ponds and lakes have provided affordable entertainment to families for generations. Tragically, every year basic ice safety rules are ignored resulting in people falling through the ice, sometimes with fatal results. It is often difficult to gauge the thickness of ice. Typically, clear blue ice is the strongest, white “milky” ice is half as [...]
No Comments » - Posted in emergency planning by Lorraine
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
Agricultural Safety and Kids
To most of us, a farm doesn’t seem like a dangerous place. A lot of people still carry the childhood idealism of darling pigs, trotting horses, and plentiful strawberries. The truth is, that exposure to hazardous machines and long hours can have devastating results – especially to young people working on a farm. The National [...]
No Comments » - Posted in workplace safety by Lorraine
Sunday, November 16th, 2008
A Grain of Truth
This story is based on an email that is making the rounds and is supposedly a hoax….but I’ll include it anyway. This is the story of yet another ploy that takes advantage of women. It’s supposed to come from a Police Department in Brampton Ontario.
Truthfully it is a ploy. One more urban myth to make [...]
No Comments » - Posted in personal security by Lorraine
Monday, November 3rd, 2008
What’s wrong with this picture?
I ask my friends to send me safety information. It gives me something to rant about. Today it paid off when my good friend sent me a “wonderful safety tip” of which she was unaware. Here’s the gist, “when the roads are wet or icy, don’t use cruise control.” OK. What got me riled was [...]
No Comments » - Posted in stupid behaviour by Lorraine
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Family Emergency Plan - Think About It
There are many situations that can prompt a local or larger emergency. The first that spring to mind are caused by severe weather, hurricanes, tornadoes, ice storms, heat waves and cold snaps. As sure as God made little green apples we know that throughout the US there will be flooding in one region or another. [...]
No Comments » - Posted in emergency planning by Lorraine
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Hello
Welcome to the new blog Safety Fourth. This blog is dedicated to people who want to live a happy, safe and active life.
Lot’s of stuff to still get ready.