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Common safety issues that you may run into around the house

Safety Sunday: Legionella, Water Heaters & Your Home?

cdc-logoRecently in a forum I frequent, an energy auditor basically went on a tirade that we were essentially harming & possibly killing people by encouraging individuals to turn their water heaters down to 120°. The reason for this concern; old studies found online about Legionella possibly being spread via water heaters & showers. This was
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Safety Sunday: Top Ten Hunting & Shooting Reminders

Duck HuntWith over 12 million plus hunters going out every year you know there is bound to be some issues. Fortunately the issues resulting in death or injury from a firearm or bow are pretty low, but the last thing someone wants to be is that 1 in a million. Case in point is the following
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Safety Sunday: Water Heaters, the Combustion Process & the Draft Hood

water-heater-draft-hood-flueIn last week’s article on Gas Water Heaters we covered the issue of knowledge or should I say lack thereof, of individuals giving advice or doing work that they are not really qualified to give or do. While we briefly covered one of the main issues surrounding Natural Draft Water Heaters, namely the Draft Hood
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Safety Sunday: Smart Phones

first-aid-signThis week McAfee released there 12 scams for Christmas, which is really a misnomer as it only deals with hardware and online issues and for the most is a rehash of ongoing issues. The most interesting part of the list though was that the smart phones actually took the top two spots. The first one
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Safety Sunday: 5 Tips for Staying Healthy During Changing Seasons & Wild Temperature Swings

first-aid-signIn the last few weeks, it sure has been interesting – here in Alabama we would go from freezing temps in the morning with highs in the 70’s later that day. In Denver, they had the opposite issue when they went from T-Shirt weather in the morning to a blizzard by that afternoon. Not only
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Safety Sunday: It’s the most wonderful time of the year

snow-in-connecticutWith snow falling in the Rockies & in parts of New England, who couldn’t help but think of that song. Ok, maybe after a few thoughts of so much for global warming & isn’t this October still? With this early wake up call, Daylight Savings Time coming to an end, and Halloween coming up tomorrow
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Safety Sunday: Preventing Food Poisoning in conjunction with #BAD11 & World Food Day

Blogactiondaybloggerbadge21What a trifecta; Safety Sunday, World Food Day & Blog Action Day 2011 all happen to fall on this Sunday, with the main focus being on Food. While we have addressed the issue of preventing food poisoning in some previous articles; Picnic Safety, Refrigerated & Frozen Products (including leftovers), the life of items in the
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Safety Sunday: Locks are meant to keep the Honest people Honest

first-aid-signFrom a safety & security standpoint, this was a pretty quiet but yet an interesting week. My favorite comment this week was – I thought keys were just keys… (Sorry, but we can’t rekey your new Kwikset locks to use your old Schlage key) Then yesterday while I was playing catch up, here comes an
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Safety Sunday: 5 Common Sense Tips for Driving in the Rain

2011-08-28_09-34-58_399Ahhh Monday’s, so there I am trying to get a wall dried in on a day it wasn’t supposed to rain, and then trying to avoid getting creamed on the way home, what could be better? A little later on, and after participating in the following tweet stream “brendaslynn It is also #AlabamaLaw RT SLSconstruction
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Let’s Blog Off: Privacy from an Information Security Specialist View

privacyBefore stepping back into the construction arena full time, my main day job for almost 10 years was working for the State of Arizona in the Information Technology field; where the bulk of the later years was focused mainly on data & information security. During this 10 year period, it was pretty interesting dealing with
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