Tip of the Week

Did you hear what Justin said? “All it takes is just that one time.” We have a little to say on this topic. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), in 2019, distracted driving took the lives of 3,142 people. [...]

  No, we are not announcing the next music craze, although this might be a great name for a rock band. Actually, Alphonse Chapanis was the Professor Emeritus of the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University [...]

Penelope (Penny) is SCM’s office pet. She’s a five-year-old English Bulldog. Her snoring can often be heard in the background on conference calls. She scouts our training classes for any food that may have dropped on the floor. Her antics keep [...]

This time of year, most of us like to do more barbequing. People are sitting out in the sun, sometimes for too long. And some of us work with hot surfaces in the course of our jobs. What does this all mean? It means there is a potential for [...]

We hope you all had a safe and fun 4th of July. Some of us even had a long weekend. Now that we are back at work, some of our thoughts are still at home, thinking of the lawn that needs mowing, or the barbeque that needs cleaning. In keeping [...]

We are coming up on that time of the year, the time when SCM talks about the hazards of the use of personal fireworks. We love the professional 4th of July pyrotechnical (fireworks) displays. This year, we should be able to attend some fireworks [...]

Most of the United States, and much of the world, has been in pandemic-mode for about 18 months now. Since early 2020, we have been ordered to stay at home, businesses have shut down, take-out meal orders became a “thing,” and everyone went [...]

California has its’ own OSHA, Cal/OSHA, which is currently in the process of trying to update the COVID-19 Prevention Program regulation it put into place last December to include allowances for vaccinations. While the update is still being [...]

View Video If you skip the ads, and watch through this video, you’ll see some pretty bad attempts at CPR. As a reminder, here are some appropriate CPR protocols: 1.     Make sure the scene is safe. You must not allow yourself to become the next [...]

It’s time for our monthly quiz. We have some questions this month related to time. To make it easy for you, the answers to the questions are found below. What do you know related to time and safety? 1. A Hazardous Waste Response and Emergency [...]