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Commercial Kitchen Fire Safety
Commercial cooking equipment is the leading cause of fires in U.S. food service establishments. Design your kitchen the right way to help protect your business against costly cooking fires.
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
- Addressing the risk of active shooter incidents in the workplace
- Commercial grade chairs
Contractual Risk Transfer
Slips, Trips, and Falls
- Preventing slips and falls | En Español
- Preventing slips and falls workplace poster
- Slip trip and fall risk assessment tool
- 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
- Best practices for cleaning food service floors
- Food service slip, trip and fall prevention checklist
- Bathroom cleaning checklist
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)
- No Harm No Foul scorecard
- Job hazard analysis | En Español
- Job Hazard Analysis Form
- 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
- Avoid injuries related to removing kitchen grease filters
- ChAnGING Workforce
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 Successful 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 Successful Return-to-Work Program so important?
- Create a Successful Return-to-Work Program
- 4-Step Rx to Control Your Experience Mod
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 fire protection checklist
- Commercial kitchen fire safety
- Commercial kitchen fire safety
- 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
- Hot Work: Keep Your Building, Workers and Visitors Safe
- Maintain fire doors and keep them closed
- Lithium-ion batteries: Minimize fire hazards
Administration
- 2023 Fleet risk environment
- Commercial auto accident reporting kit | En Español
- Do I need to comply with DOT requirements?
- Driver qualification: Lowering requirements puts an organization at risk
- Drug and alcohol testing of drivers
- Fleet safety responsibility and safety committees
- Motor vehicle records (MVR)
- Non-Owned Vehicle Management
- Post-accident reporting | En Español
- Safe driving commitment form - Co. vehicle operator | En Español
- Sample fleet safety self-assessment
- Sample fleet safety/driver safety manual
- Small fleets need attention, too!
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
- Inspection and maintenance of non-regulated vehicles
- Vehicle theft prevention | En Español
- Pre-trip vehicle inspection | En Español
- Vehicle inspection report form
- Trailer safety infographic
- Trailer inspection
Driver training topics
- Driver training – Online courses
- Driver training best practices
- Driver training resources page – 40+ topics
- Monthly infographics for driver safety training
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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
- 5 actions to reduce water damage
- How water monitoring systems can help prevent water damage
- Reducing the risk of flood damage
- Severe weather checklist for businesses - Hurricanes
- Severe weather checklist for businesses - Wind, rain and hail
- Severe weather checklist for businesses – Winter weather
- Severe weather pre-planning checklist for businesses
- Water damage mitigation for businesses
- Water damage response plan for businesses
- Water mitigation roles and responsibilities
- Water mitigation self-assessment
- Water mitigation self-audit for businesses
- Wet work permits for businesses
- Wet work programs to mitigate water damage
- Wet work valve tags for businesses
- 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 during civil unrest
- Take ACTION to weather the potential storm of civil unrest
- Maintaining closed or idle work facilities
- Strategies for protecting idle construction projects
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