Avoiding Falls in The Workplace

In 2009, 605 workers lost their lives and another 212,760 were seriously injured by falls while on the job. Falls are a persistent hazard found in all occupational settings, they can occur in acts as simple as walking or climbing a ladder. And yet, studies have shown that 99% of these tragedies could have been prevented with better safety procedures, including the use of supplies that help eliminate slips and falls.

A safe workplace benefits everyone from the worker to the employer. A small investment in simple but vital safety products can save billions.  Workers’ compensation and medical costs associated with occupational fall incidents have been estimated at approximately $70 billion annually in the United Sates.  More importantly, these safety precautions will spare workers and their families the unnecessary suffering of preventable injury and death.

Building cleaning and maintenance is one of the industries with the highest counts of injuries resulting from falls. Circumstances associated with falls in the workplace frequently involve slippery, cluttered, or unstable walking/working surfaces.

Stamar provides janitorial supplies that can prevent the circumstances that cause these falls to happen.  Our fast-acting, anti-caking Ice Melter is particularly useful in these icy winter months to reduce slippery weather-related hazards on walkways and parking lots.  We also offer Oil Dry, a quick and easy means to absorb oil and other liquids to prevent slips.  Our Wet Floor Signs, will alert people of potential slippery areas and our high-quality cleaning tools such as mops, bucket/wringers and sweeping compounds assure quick and thorough clean-up so that you can be confident that your building is a safe place for everyone.

Another Thing We Packaged at Stamar

It wasn’t a hard decision to make. When a member of our team at Stamar, Zach Biel, proposed that we package something beyond corrugated materials for a single day; that in fact we go ahead and initiate a non-profit blood-drive; the answer throughout our company was a resounding yes.

Zach reached out to Janet Maher at the nearby HeartlandBlood Center to help orchestrate our company’s blood drive. Furthermore, we formed an official blood donators’ committee comprised of one member from each of our respective departments. It was each committee member’s stated responsibility to help enlist as many members of his particular department as was feasible. 

The response from departmental employees was immediate, and for a company of our size, disproportionately generous. Fifteen Stamar team-members volunteered to donate one unit of their blood apiece (although three volunteers were eventually turned down on account of various medical conditions). Still, that gave us a full twelve units of blood. Since a single unit can provide enough blood to save up to three lives in any given emergency, we’d accumulated enough offerings to save up to 36 lives. Our partners at Heartland Blood Center could not have been more pleased. The actual collection day occurred this January 13^th. Heartland Blood Center’s mobile coaches drove out to Stamar to collect our blood, the collection process taking the majority of the afternoon.

In a company that emphasizes “the personal touch” in its relationships with its business customers, there could hardly be a better way of driving home that ethos than by giving blood to save lives. 36 individuals may very well have Stamar to thank for saving their lives at some point down the road. We’re even considering making our partnership with Heartland Blood Centers into an annual (possibly even biannual) event. Here’s looking forward to great, safe, and prosperous 2012 for everyone we do business with, as well as for our community at large.