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Summer Safety for Landscape Workers
Do you have a summer safety plan in place? From increased driving to hot temperatures, summer can pose many risks for landscape professionals. June is National Safety Month, so we wanted to make sure...
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Tech Tip: Summer Safety Tips
This week, we’re not going to talk about turfgrass management, we’re going to talk about the turfgrass manager – you. Most of us are sole proprietors with one or two employees that cannot afford to be...
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Employee Issue of the Week: Increase Awareness to Boost Safe Operations
If you walk into the lobby at Raimondi Horticultural Group, in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, you instantly spot the National Association of Landscape Professionals Safety Recognition Awards it won for safe...
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The 3 Most Important Types of Safety Communication for Landscape Professionals
By Sam Steel Did you know that safety and health information can be more effectively shared with your employees? There is an important, complimentary role for safety briefings, safety training and...
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Meet Sam Steel, Your Personal Safety Advisor
It’s critical that landscape business owners and managers foster a culture of safety in their everyday operations. NALP offers a vastly underutilized resource that members have at their disposal—a...
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How to See Safety Differently
Sometimes, being safe on the job means looking at safety in a whole new way. Here, we want to bring light to how to see safety differently. When you look at the following photo in black and white, it...
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Safety Tip of the Week: How to Avoid Dangerous Plants and Wildlife While...
People who work outdoors a majority of the time, like landscape professionals, are exposed to many types of hazards. Hazards vary depending on the type of work, geographic region, season and duration...
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Safety Tip of the Week: How to Combat Heat-related Illnesses
North American summers are hot. Most summers see heat waves in one or more parts of the U.S. As a result, heat is one of the leading weather-related killers in the U.S., contibuting to hundreds of...
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Cut Fleet Costs: 8 Proactive Steps for Landscape Pros
For many landscape fleets in the U.S., time—and tracking how employees are using their time—is at the core of how the business is built. If employees are not working a site, they’re driving to or from...
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Safe Driving & Cell Phone Usage
Unfortunately, more than 80 percent of the nation’s 94 million cell phone owners use them while driving (at least sometimes). Today, safe driving means knowing the rules around cell phone usage when...
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5 Ways Belknap Landscape Prioritizes Safety in Landscaping
Safety is a lot of work. But Belknap Landscape Co., in Gilford, New Hampshire, prioritizes safety, making it an every day part of doing business. “The most important reason that safety is so critical...
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Leveling up Your Safety Awards
Showing clients that you are a safe company is now more important than ever. The Safety Recognition Awards are a way to benchmark your safety performance and improve your safety practices, and they...
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National Safety Month: Recommit to Driver Safety
June marks National Safety Month and one safety aspect to consider is refocusing efforts on making sure that your fleet is practicing safe driving.According to the National Safety Council, every seven...
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Promoting Mental Health in the Workplace
Safety is paramount to landscape and lawn care companies. However, one aspect of safety that can be overlooked is mental wellness.While it’s not as visible as not wearing proper PPE, neglecting mental...
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Heat Safety: Heat Exhaustion vs. Heat Stroke
Excerpted from the July/August issue of The Landscape Professional magazineRolling into the dog days of summer, heat will be a constant factor your crews out in the field will face. When the human...
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Landscape Companies with Low Experience MODs Do These 5 Things
Landscape companies with a low Experience Modification Rating (XMOD/EMR) typically exhibit similar best practices when dealing with work-related injuries. Their proactive approach helps close claims...
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Identify and Eliminate Safety Risks with Job Hazard Analyses
Operating safely on the jobsite protects employees, reduces downtime and decreases the number of costly accidents.One step to take to become a safer company is to conduct a job hazard analysis (JHA)...
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The Value of OSHA 10-Hour Training
The landscape construction and lawn care industry has its fair share of risks when it comes to injuries and illnesses. Safety training helps build awareness to recognize and prevent hazards on the job...
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Safety: Mitigating Slips and Falls for Employees This Winter
Snow removal companies are well-aware of the threats slips and falls pose their business and the repercussions that may occur if a customer slips.But what about the crews out clearing the property...
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Safety: Educate Employees to Prevent Cold Stress
On average, January is the coldest month of the year and for those who have crews out working this winter weather means employees can be at risk of cold stress, where the body’s skin temperature and...
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