Our Safety Blog & Newsletter
TSS is committed to helping businesses, communities and individuals create safe environments — regardless of whether you're a client. Visit our safety blog, and sign up for our free, monthly newsletter to find information covering many topics related to workplace, community and in-home safety.
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Harvest-Time Safety
What occupation is twice as deadly as law enforcement, and five times more dangerous than being a firefighter? Answer: Farming. This may be surprising to people who live outside of rural America, but agricultural workers know exactly how hazardous their job can be on...
Pedestrian Safety: Prepare Your Kids for the Walk to School
This month, children across the country are heading back to school. While some of us are fortunate enough to be able to drop our kids off in front of the school building and others have door-to-door bus service, there are many families who must get there on foot....
DER Corner: What your C/TPA needs from you
The Consortium/Third Party Administrator should be the Designated Employer Representative's strongest ally in ensuring compliance. But the C/TPA can only do their job when the DER does their part in keeping employee lists updated. This is so critical to our duties...
Protect Workers and the Bottom Line By Considering Extreme Heat Measures
In 2023 and 2024, July temperatures broke temperature records for the previous years, a trend that is on track to continue in 2025, and August promises no relief. With temperatures soaring, many workers are vulnerable to heat-related illness and even death. More than...
8 Steps to Protect Yourself from Tick Bites and Lyme Disease this Summer
Hiking, camping, fishing....Spending time in the great outdoors is one of summer's greatest pleasures. But it can also come with risks. Keep in mind that if you are walking through a meadow or wandering in a wooded area, you may very well encounter some ticks, putting...
Looking Back 25 Years: Part 9
Sometimes the funniest things happen in our offices! One day in the first year or so of operation, Lloyd Gossman decided to really have some fun with me. Lloyd was a safety director at the time for a local construction company. He came to the office with both of his...
Fireworks safety
The 4th of July holiday is right around the corner, and for many of us, that means celebrating with fireworks. According to the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission(CPSC), emergency rooms treated 9,700 Americans with fireworks-related injuries in 2023. Of...
DER Corner: Who is the DER and what are their responsibilities?
The DER, or Designated Employer Representative, is responsible for keeping employees and the company in compliance with federal (Department of Transportation) drug and alcohol testing requirements. Over the next few months, we will highlight the DER's responsibilities...
10 Critical Water Safey Tips
As the weather is heating up, more families are heading to splash pads, pools, lakes, beaches and rivers to cool off. But summer fun can quickly turn tragic when safety is not a priority and people of all ages and experience levels can be at risk. By being alert and...
Looking back 25 years: Part 8
Since the early days and still today, I consider the partners we work with part of the team. As TSS grew from a small basement office into the business we are now, I learned just how critical drug testing services are to community health and safety, and to what degree...
Protecting your workers in the summer heat
Do your collectors work at various work sites? As summer ramps up and your staff head out to do drug screens in the field, it is important that you ensure their safety. Often, when we talk about safety, we think of hard hats, gloves, eyeglasses, etc. And often, we...
DER Corner: Who makes the Refusal to Test determination during the drug and alcohol testing process?
In our work with Designated Employer Representatives (DERs), or those who manage a business’s drug and alcohol testing program, we often see some confusion about who makes the call that an employee’s behavior during a drug or alcohol test collection constitutes a...
TSS CEO Renee Schofield and her team of safety specialists share wisdom from 20-plus years in the safety industry.
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