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Dram shop liability: sellers and servers beware
A commercial establishment that sells alcohol could be held civilly liable in some situations where an individual causes intoxication-related injuries or damages. There are steps you can take to protect your business.
Safely converting outdoor restaurant spaces to dining areas
Things to keep in mind when converting a restaurant’s outdoor space into temporary dining areas.
Preventing slips and falls
Take steps to help prevent slips, trips and falls on your interior floors and exterior property.
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Administrative/policies
- General liability for restaurants
- Violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act
- Make your store a safe place for customers
- Cyber liability
- Protect Your Business Against Cyber Attacks
- Effective customer incident handling | En Español
- Incident report form
- Water management program for general industry
- Reasonable care: What is it and why should you care?
- The Importance of Conducting Criminal Background Checks
Slips, Trips, and Falls
- Preventing slips and falls | En Español
- Preventing slips and falls workplace poster
- Mop/spill control log | En Español
- Help prevent weather-related slips and falls
- Snow and ice removal programs
- Snow and ice removal: What you need to know
- Snow and ice removal/treatment log | En Español
Food and Liquor
- Minimize risks when handling food products
- Take steps to avoid allergy cross-contamination
- Managing risks from food allergens | En Español
- Protecting perishables to prevent food spoilage
- Proper food handling and storage | En Español
- Safely converting outdoor restaurant spaces to dining areas
- Dram shop liability: Sellers and servers beware
- Liquor liability
- Product recalls
Administrative/policies
- Protect your employees with workers' compensation from Nationwide
- Emergency action plans
- Guidance for forming an effective safety committee
- Creating a safety culture
- 10 ways to help prevent accidents and injuries
- Incident report form | En Español
- The workforce is changing
- Make every month a time to focus on safety
- No Harm No Foul Flyer (Admin)
- No Harm No Foul Poster (Admin)
- Job hazard analysis | En Español
- Safety matters: Kitchen safety
- Injury prevention in commercial kitchens
- Safety matters: Heat stress and heat-related illness
- Young and inexperienced workers in non-agricultural jobs
- Commercial kitchen injury prevention
Ergonomics
- Lifting safety
- Ergonomics screening tool
- Manual material handling
- Safety matters: Ergonomics for repetitive motions
- Ergonomic screening tool - Assembly task evaluation
- How to help prevent back injuries
- Five simple rules to reduce lifting injuries
- Ergonomics screening tool: Pushing & pulling tasks
Falls from elevations
Machinery
Injury handling and return-to-work
- Successful return-to-work program overview
- Using the 24/7 Nurse Triage Hotline
- Choose the right provider to treat your injured employees
- Why is a good return-to-work program so important?
- Create a successful return-to-work program
Chemical handling
- Bloodborne pathogens in the workplace
- Hazard communication program for chemicals
- Safety matters: Chemical safety in the workplace
- Preventing CO poisoning in your facility
- Manage heat-related risks to minimize work-related injuries
Workplace violence
Fire Safety
- Commercial kitchen safety
- Commercial kitchen fire safety
- National Fire Prevention Week: Serving up safety in the kitchen
- Kitchen fire prevention at residential facilities
- Outdoor heater safety
- Fire extinguisher use and selection
- Inspect fire extinguishers to ensure proper operation
- Step-by-step fire extinguisher use (Infographic)
- Is your fire protection system NFPA-compliant?
- Fire protection impairment program
- Step-by-step fire protection impairment (Infographic)
- Microbiologically-influenced corrosion in fire sprinkler systems
- Fire sprinkler maintenance and operation
- Sprinkler system testing
- Guide to fire pump testing and maintenance
- Grilling safety tips | En Español
- Prepare automatic sprinklers for winter
- Safely store idle pallets to minimize risk
- The right way to store idle pallets
- Store idle pallets properly to lower fire risk (Infographic)
- Automatic sprinkler plan review
Administration
- 2022 Fleet risk environment
- Commercial auto accident reporting kit | En Español
- Post-accident reporting | En Español
- Fleet safety responsibility and safety committees
- Sample fleet safety/driver safety manual
- Motor vehicle records (MVR)
- Hired and non-owned vehicles
- Safe driving commitment form - Co. vehicle operator | En Español
- Safe driving commitment form - Non-owned vehicle operators | En Español
- Do I need to comply with DOT requirements?
Distracted Driving
- Distracted and inattentive driving (with sample policy)
- Distracted and inattentive driving infographic
- The fewer the distractions, the safer the drive | En Español
- Identify and address driving distractions
- Distracted driving - GPS navigation systems
- Distracted driving prevention technology
Technology
- ADAS - Reducing collisions with ADAS
- ADAS - Advanced driver assistance systems: Driver education
- Dashcams - Which is best for you?
- Why telematics?
- Telematics Selection Guide — basic
- Telematics Selection Guide — advanced
- Telematics implementation & coaching guide
- Telematics-related smartphone apps: Improving driver safety
Delivery
Vehicles
- Catalytic convertor thefts
- Vehicle theft prevention | En Español
- Pre-trip vehicle inspection | En Español
- Vehicle inspection report form
- Trailer safety infographic
- Trailer inspection
Driver training topics
- Aggressive driving | En Español
- Bicycles: Tips for sharing the road with
- Deer collisions
- Deer collisions infographic
- Distracted and inattentive driving infographic
- Drowsy driving | En Español
- How to calculate vehicle stopping distance
- Intersections | En Español
- Left-turn collisions
- Left-turn collisions infographic
- Motorcycle awareness
- Motorcycle awareness infographic
- Night driving
- Pedestrian collisions infographic
- Proper following distance | En Español
- Rear-end collisions
- Rear-end collisions infographic
- Speeding | En Español
- Single-vehicle accidents | En Español
- Winter driving
- Winter driving infographic
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- Lytx DriveCam
- Driver's Alert
Wildfires
- 8 steps to prepare your business for wildfire
- Protecting commercial buildings from wildfire
- Smart landscaping to help prevent fires
- Take steps to reduce risk in wildfire-prone areas
- Infographic: Wildfire safe area
- Are you in a Wildland-Urban Interface region?
- Be prepared during wildfire season
Hurricanes and high winds
- Reducing tree damage from windstorms
- Preparing your business for stormy weather
- High wind checklist for concrete buildings
- Selecting windows to withstand a hurricane
- Make your business hurricane ready
- Hurricane-ready brochure
- Preparing commercial roofs for hurricanes and high winds
- Hurricane Ida
- Hurricane Henri
- Protect your business during hurricane season
Roof maintenance and protection
- Roof cover maintenance and repair
- 8 ways to maintain commercial roofs
- Snow load risks for commercial roofs
- Ice dam guidance for steep-sloped roofs
Flood/water
- Reducing the risk of flood damage
- 5 actions to reduce water damage
- What to do when flooding is imminent
Weather-other
Emergency preparedness
- Building a disaster recovery plan
- Business continuity planning for small businesses
- Severe weather emergency preparedness
Vacant buildings/reopening/civil unrest
- Maintain closed or idle buildings following civil unrest
- Take ACTION to weather the potential storm of civil unrest
- Maintaining closed or idle work facilities
- Strategies for protecting idle construction projects
Other
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