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Popular Articles By Topic
Accident/Incident Reporting, Workers’ Compensation
- Non-covered treatment preapproval for workers’ compensation claims
- Course of employment
- Close calls are wake up calls
- In-patient hospitalization reporting requirement
- Do I really need to fill this out? The importance of the Employee Incident Report
- A student injury – Now what?
- Student personal property missing, damaged or stolen at school
- Injured at work? What to tell the medical provider
- Parking lot injuries- Are these Workers’ Compensation Claims?
Athletics and P.E.
- Need to use the school facilities?
- Beating the heat
- When thunder roars, Go indoors!
- Baseball and softball injury risk prevention
- Athletic event security: How to avoid a “Basketbrawl”
- Preventing transmission of disease in wrestling
- Cheerleading safety – Minimizing the risks
- A heads-up warning on concussion
- Safety through supervision
- Recommendations concerning open gyms in schools
Emergency/Disaster Preparedness
- Student release crisis planning/li>
- Communication in a crisis
- Wind plus trees equals inspections
- When disaster strikes
- A whole lot of shakin’ going on...
- Emergency response plans, safe field trips, accident prevention...Help is available!
- When ill winds blow
- When thunder roars, Go indoors!
- First aid/CPR training – Which school staff need it?
Employee Safety
- Phoning home in the digital age: social networking by school employees
- The benefits and challenges of managing school employee safety – Part 3
- The benefits and challenges of managing school employee safety – Part 2
- The benefits and challenges of managing school employee safety – Part 1
- What’s that smell? Air fresheners in schools
- Experimenting with danger
- Beating the heat
- Sharp woodworkers avoid cuts
- Safety issues in an aging workforce
- Prevent back injuries this summer
- At work and at home: Always use ladders safely
- Ergonomics and safety for school custodians
- Winter weather precautions: Don’t get left out in the cold.
- WISHA Required Training for School District Employees
Ergonomics
Facilities Issues
- Need to use the school facilities?
- What’s that smell? Air fresheners in schools
- The nuts and bolts of playground inspection and maintenance
- Cold weather preparations
- Common fire code violations in schools
- Tips for healthier air quality in classrooms
- Limiting appliances in classrooms
- Preventing theft and vandalism in school portables
- Fire sprinkler inspections
- Pesticide use in schools
- New law concerning pesticide use at school
Field Trips/Activities
- Emergency response plans, safe field trips, accident prevention…Help is available!
- High risk activities to avoid
- Parent hosted events
- Have a safe field trip
- Guidelines for taking a field trip outside the U.S. using a tour company
- Senior graduation parties
Human Resources/Personnel
- The benefits and challenges of managing school employee safety
- New employees… welcomed, valued, informed and safe
- Make sure required posters and forms are provided in your district
- Reasonable assurance letters help control unemployment compensation claims
- The importance of documenting your safety training
- Four child abuse and sexual misconduct reporting duties of Washington educators
- Protecting the district using special project volunteers
- Sexual grooming and boundary invasions
- Modified duty work is a benefit at Kelso School District
- When does behavior create a hostile work environment?
Student Safety/Injuries
- But it happened at school...
- School supervision problem areas (insert)
- What a school can do to help ensure adequate supervision (insert)
- Homemade food at school? Please think again
- Experimenting with danger
- Wheels of ill-fortune: Roller sports at school
- High risk activities to avoid
- Student help in the kitchen
- Four child abuse and sexual misconduct reporting duties of Washington educators
- Preventing teen workers from getting hurt on the job
- Sexual grooming and boundary invasions
- A smashing success, car bashes
- Employment of minors in schools – What teens can and cannot do
- Tips for safe surfing - Cyber safety
Transportation/Vehicles/School Buses/Vans
- Driving is serious business
- Top 10 winter driving tips
- Personal vehicle use for school business – Am I insured?
- Student transportation concerns
- Rental car insurance needs
- Non-student travel in school district vehicles
- Insurance coverage for buses used for non-school purposes
- Transportation concerns - Students driving themselves
- Distracted driving
- Cell phone use while driving
WISHA/DOSH
- Lead safety during renovation, repair and painting
- In-patient hospitalization reporting requirement
- The importance of documenting your safety training
- Make sure required posters and forms are provided in your district
- Workplace posters: Required and recommended
- Required workplace posters available on-line for free
- And the winner (loser?) is…Top 10 OSHA sited violations
- WISHA required training for school district employees