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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Meet the Collector: Ginny Clay
This article is part of a series of posts introducing you to the TSS team and the people you may be working closely with. My name is Ginny Clay. I am the operations manager at TSS, Inc and I work in the Ketchikan office. I have worked for TSS for 19...
FMCSA: Owner-Operator Rules
Recently, we’ve heard many questions surrounding the definition of owner-operator, what owner-operators are required to do to remain compliant with U.S. Department of Transportation drug and alcohol guidelines, and how owner-operators should register in the Federal...
Drug Alert: Xylazine
A non-opioid veterinary tranquilizer called xylazine, also known as “tranq”, is emerging as a deadly threat in the illicit drug scene in the United States. People are often exposed to xylazine knowingly or unknowingly when it is combined with other illicit drugs such...
National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week: 3/20 – 3/26
Did you know? More than 106,000 people in the U.S. died from drug-involved overdoses in 2021, including illicit drugs and prescription opioids. The synthetic opioid fentanyl is 100 times more potent than morphine and 50 times more potent than heroin and is...
Meet the Collector
This article is the first in a series of posts introducing you to the TSS team and the people you may be working closely with. To kick things off, we'd like to re-introduce you to TSS CEO Renee Schofield. Hi, I’m Renee. I am the owner of TSS Inc. What started in...
Managing Marijuana Use in the Workplace: What’s at Stake for Employers
This article by Keith Ward of Employer Solutions at Quest Diagnostics is reposted with permission from the National Drug and Alcohol Screening Association website. A recently published peer-reviewed study generated headlines with the finding that cannabis users were...
FMCSA Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse Update
As of January 2023, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse will have accumulated three years of data. That means motor carriers will no longer need to check with prior employers about driver applicants. Theoretically, the...
February is American Heart Month!
Each February, we focus on the number one cause of death for both men and women in the United States: Heart Disease. More than 650,000 Americans die of heart disease every year. That’s one in four deaths, meaning that most Americans have been touched by heart disease...
COSS Report: Avoiding Slips, Trips and Falls
It seems like nearly every time I engage with a client on their safety needs, the subject of slips, trips and falls comes up. There’s a good reason for that, as it is the most common cause of accidents and injury. According to the National Safety Council, in 2020,...
National Blood Donor Month: Give Blood, Save Lives
Every two seconds someone in the U.S. needs blood for surgeries, cancer treatment, chronic illnesses or traumatic injuries. But traditionally, winter is a time when blood donations are down, both because inclement weather cancels blood drives and potential donors get...
Tips for safe snow shoveling
For many of us, winter is synonymous with shoveling snow. It’s one of those chores that seems to come at the most inconvenient times, and you want to get it over with as quickly as possible. But shoveling is an extremely strenuous, labor-intensive task, and should not...
COSS Report: Winter Driving Safety
Much of our country has already been hit by extreme weather this season. While your best bet is to stay off the roads during a blizzard or storm, most of us still have to brave wintery conditions once the worst is over. More than 70 percent of the nation's roads are...
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TSS CEO Renee Schofield and her team of safety specialists share wisdom from 20-plus years in the safety industry.
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