Maintaining focus on lessons learned during PDRMA’s Injury Prevention Program (PIPP) can be a challenge — especially with seasonal and new employees joining your staff. That’s why PDRMA recommends conducting regular employee observations or audits to make sure they’re putting into practice what they learned...

Studies prove the biggest blind spot most drivers have isn’t in the design of their cars — it’s in their minds. Nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of American drivers rate themselves as "excellent" or "very good" drivers, according to a 2011 Allstate survey. The same survey, though, shows the majority of these same excellent/very good drivers admit to speeding, driving while too tired to focus, distracted driving or actually being in accidents.

“Driving is one of the most hazardous tasks we carry out each day, but we do it so much and so often it’s easy to think we don’t need a refresher course or additional training, because we are so practiced,” says Bill Hooker, PDRMA Training Program Supervisor...

For visitors and workers alike, summertime turns parks and preserves into a buzzing hive of activity, but amid the activity, don’t forget to take some extra precautions to avoid summers’ heat-related illnesses...

Plans of Action (POA) are an important part of the PDRMA Loss Control Review (LCR) and help members stay focused on specific causes of past losses and exposures the agency identified with the help of their Risk Management Consultant...