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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Safety is No Accident: Prevent Slips, Trips and Falls
We’re heading into Slip, Trip and Fall season! With frost and snow just around the corner, this is a good time to offer some workplace training to avoid potential accidents. Slips, Trips and Falls (STFs) are the second leading cause of workplace injuries and are...
What is the best drug testing option for your business?
At the heart of what we do at TSS is the conviction that safe workplaces must be drug-free workplaces. For this reason, we always urge the businesses we work with to establish robust drug policies and screening programs. Naturally, one of the questions that frequently...
Avoid farming accidents and injuries
Beginning in the spring and ending in late fall farmers will work long exhausting hours, in physically taxing conditions and challenging environments that are full of potential hazards. So it’s hardly surprising that agriculture is one of the most hazardous jobs you...
4 Basic Dump Truck Safety Tips
Like any other job site situation involving heavy equipment, operating or working around dump trucks can pose significant safety risks to your workers, if they aren’t taking proper precautions. Between 2011 and 2020, 809 workers died from accidental injuries that...
International Overdose Awareness Day – August 31
A note from our CEO Over the last 20 years, a sharp increase in drug overdoses, and hundreds of thousands of senseless overdose deaths, have created a critical public health concern in the United States and around the world. The data is alarming. From 1999 to 2017,...
Meet the Collector: Aubrey McCurley
Hi, my name is Aubrey McCurley. I have worked in TSS’s Juneau office as a Certified Drug Test Collector since October 2022. At our Juneau location, we do a little bit of everything including a lot of drug testing and fingerprinting. I love my job with TSS because I’ve...
For Safety’s Sake: Stay Hydrated
You wouldn’t automatically think about hydration being a workplace or community safety issue. But it is. As we see record temperatures across the nation, keeping the body properly hydrated is a critical health issue, not just for your employees, but for everyone – the...
Meet the Collector: Myron McCord
My name is Myron McCord and I work in the Keokuk, Iowa TSS office. I started with TSS in February 2022, and I absolutely love working here. The Keokuk office works diligently with local companies, organizations and communities, to help keep the workforce and community...
Safety Notes: Good Communication is Key
Communication is the hallmark of keeping people safe. Even when we “think” people know what’s going on, we must remember that not everyone at our job site is operating with the same levels of training. The new guy on the construction site has never worked in the...
Prevent Hot Car Deaths
It’s a shocking story we hear all too often this time of year. A child dies after being left alone in a hot car. According to the National Safety Council (NSC), heat stroke is the leading cause of non-crash, vehicle-related deaths in children under 15. Heat stroke...
July 4th Safety Tips
With the long Fourth of July weekend fast approaching, we want to share some reminders for making it a safe one. Every year, there are numerous reported injuries, illnesses and accidents that put a damper on the holiday celebrations. Let’s make 2023 as safe as it can...
Safety Notes: Do We Really Need Safety Meetings?
Safety does not just happen. While some employees are a bit more apt to think about how things might go awry, not everyone does. I often hear, “Everybody knows that!” Of course, folks know that if you hit your thumb with a hammer, it’s going to hurt! But does...
TSS CEO Renee Schofield and her team of safety specialists share wisdom from 20-plus years in the safety industry.
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