Safety at Home

Each year, we try to provide you with items that will help you and your employees ensure that your families are safe in winter at home, in vehicles, and outdoors. Please share this issue with your employees and colleagues so everyone will be prepared for the challenges that winter weather brings and can stay safe throughout the season and afterward.

Follow these safety tips to stay safe if you're stranded in your vehicle. (Item #1)   The CDC provides valuable winter weather health and safety information. (Item #2)   Here are some tips to help keep the kiddies safe. (Item #3)  

Kids love sledding... here are some tips on sledding safety. (Item #4)   Keep the home fires burning... safely! (Item #5)   Power outages usually take us unaware, so it's best to be prepared, just in case. (Item #6)  

As always, we look forward to hearing your comments & insights regarding business continuity. If you have a topic you'd like us to cover, email me at [email protected].

Bob Mellinger, President
Attainium Corp

1. Eight Safety Tips That Will Save Your Life If Stranded In Your Car during Ice Storms or Snow Storms

Are you prepared to shelter in your car if you're stranded in a winter storm? Check out these tips and, if necessary, get together any items you should carry when you travel in winter.
http://geemale.hubpages.com/hub/8-tips-snow-stranded-car

2. Extreme Cold: A Prevention Guide to Promote Your Personal Health and Safety

The Extreme Cold Prevention Guide combines all of the key content of the CDC Winter Weather website into one downloadable, printable file. Printing this PDF file ensures that you will have important winter weather health and safety information available even when you're without power or Internet service.
https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/winter/pdf/extreme-cold-guide.pdf

3. Winter Safety Tips for Children

Winter months can be challenging with severe storms or cold temperatures. Keeping children warm, safe, and healthy is important. These valuable tips offer parents advice for the winter season. The following resource is provided courtesy of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Consumer Protection and Safety Commission and Kid Source.
http://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/hslc/tta-system/family/For%20Parents/
safe%20and%20healthy%20family/safety%20and%20prevention/wintersafetytip.htm

4. Safety Tips: Sledding

Sledding with friends and family members has been a winter ritual for generations. Anywhere there's snow and a hillside, you can find people sledding. But sledding can also cause injuries, some of them pretty serious. To keep your kids safe while sledding, make sure they follow these safety tips.
http://kidshealth.org/parent/firstaid_safe/outdoor/safety_sledding.html?tracking=P_RelatedArticle

5. Fireplace and Home Fire Safety

Heating fires account for 36% of residential home fires in rural areas every year. Often these fires are due to creosote buildup in chimneys and stovepipes. All home heating systems require regular maintenance to function safely and efficiently. The U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) encourages you to practice the following fire safety steps to keep those home fires safely burning. Remember, fire safety is your personal responsibility ...Fire Stops with You!
http://www.usfa.fema.gov/citizens/home_fire_prev/heating/fireplace.shtm

6. Stay safe and secure during power outages

The apocalyptic images from recent weather events bring to mind the need to keep ourselves and our loved ones as safe as possible during bad storms, no matter where we live. Power outages that strike in the sweltering summer months are often just as deadly as power outages that hit in the dead of winter. Of course, it's important to plan ahead as much as possible - but it's also important to have an awareness of how to proceed even if we're caught totally unprepared
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/16453340/ns/today-money/t/stay-safe-secure-during-power-outages/

Quote of the Week:

"A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water."
-- Carl Reiner

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