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Strategic Risk Management: Exploring the Viability of Captive Insurance for...
If your lawn or landscape company is operating safely and efficiently, it can be frustrating as your insurance rates continue to rise despite your lack of individual claims. One alternative to...
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Safety Culture: Mitigating Tick and Mosquito Bites
Landscaping allows your team to enjoy being in the great outdoors, but it also increases the likelihood they’ll encounter pests like ticks and mosquitoes.These insects may carry bacteria, parasites or...
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Safety Culture: Cultivating Cybersecurity Awareness Within Your Team
As technology becomes more commonplace within your landscape company, the importance of cybersecurity awareness only increases. Whether your team is using software to schedule appointments, create...
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Six Safety Steps to Control Overhead Costs
Putting safety first in your lawn and landscape company has numerous benefits. Not only are your team members able to return home safely each day, but reducing accidents and injuries also lowers...
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Common OSHA Safety Violations to Avoid
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s mission is to ensure workers have safe and healthy working conditions. As such, they conduct workplace inspections regularly and when standard...
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How I Do It: BrightView Steps Up Safety with Work Boot Initiative
The right pair of work boots is an underappreciated but vital part of a landscape employee’s personal protective equipment. This year, BrightView, headquartered in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, recognized...
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High Standards, High Rewards: Creating a Drug-Free Workplace at Your...
Adding a drug-free workplace policy to your lawn or landscape company can be intimidating if you’re afraid you’ll lose your employees. Rob Ambler, president of Ambler Industries, based in Furlong,...
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How I Do It: Creating a Safety Champion Program
Environmental Management, Inc. (EMI), based in Plain City, Ohio, recently created a safety champion program in an effort to increase their team’s engagement and focus on safety. “It’s hard to have...
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How I Do It: Improving My Fleet Safety Program
Michael Hatcher & Associates, based in Olive Branch, Mississippi, has a fleet of over 70 vehicles on the road every day. They have achieved an average annual reduction of 95% in the cost of their...
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Safety Culture: Protect Your Team From Noise-Induced Hearing Loss
Hearing loss is the most common occupational disease in the U.S., and often, people don’t realize it is happening until it is too late. October is National Protect Your Hearing Month and a great time...
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Safety Culture: Mitigate Drowsy Driving After the Time Change
Daylight saving time ends on the first Sunday in November at 2 a.m. and while ‘falling back’ technically provides an extra hour of sleep, it can also throw off people’s circadian rhythm, resulting in...
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How To Deck The Halls Safely: Essential Ladder Safety Practices
If your landscape company offers holiday decor services, chances are you’ve been installing lights for a while already if you have commercial clients and probably some eager residential clients as...
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How I Do It: Increasing Fleet Safety with AI-Powered Dashcams
As adding GPS tracking to landscape fleets becomes more commonplace, an additional piece of hardware that is rising in popularity are dashcams.These cameras can have road-facing and/or in-cab lenses...
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