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January 2014

Every year, slips and falls on icy walking surfaces are a leading cause of workplace injuries during the winter months. Being proactive with a comprehensive snow and ice removal plan can help prevent winter workplace falls and injuries.  Winter Driving Safety Reminder Tip Sheet - PDF

As a service to our customers, we want to alert you to several severe injuries reported during the past few months. We also provide general guidelines to prevent these types of accidents from happening at your workplace.

1. Forklift rolls over worker's foot and ankle
2. Tree trimmer's safety line breaks
3. Worker falls through roof

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When your injured employee requires medical treatment and needs prescriptions filled for a work-related injury, provide the employee with a completed copy of this form to take to the pharmacy. When this completed form is presented to the participating pharmacy, the prescriptions are filled with no out-of-pocket expenses for the employee. The form lists all participating pharmacy chains.

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Maryland's Occupational Safety & Health department offers FREE safety seminars covering everything from Accident Investigation to the Globally Harmonized System and Workplace Hazard Assessment.

New titles include: Lockout Tagout; Drowsy Driving: Your Wake Up Call; Distracted Driving, Real Accidents, Real Stories II; and Creating an Effective Safety Committee.

- Wumbus website to preview the new video titles

Safety Flicks webpage to access via eService



 Chesapeake Employers' Insurance Company | (410) 494-2023 | [email protected] | www.ceiwc.com
8722 Loch Raven Blvd. Towson, MD 21286

This information and any noted recommendations are advisory only: Chesapeake Employers' Insurance Co. assumes no liability for identification or correction of conditions or hazards as the safety and health of employees remain the employer's responsibility. Not all foreseeable hazards or conditions in need of correction, and not all possible controls to address them, may be listed. Use of all or part of this safety information does not relieve employers of their responsibility to comply with all current and applicable local, state and/or federal laws, regulations, and codes. While the information herein is believed to be current as of the date published, the reader should rely upon the most current standards as laws, codes, and regulations are updated frequently.


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