Just when we thought another winter was behind us, a huge wave of arctic air swept across the eastern half of the country and buried all the beautiful spring blossoms under several inches of snow and ice on March 11, 2022. This early spring storm caused a 73-car pile-up in Pennsylvania, power outages across huge sections of urban and rural New England, downed trees and power lines, caused blizzard conditions in West Virginia, and resulted in hundreds of needless falls and injuries, because ice can trip you up.

This storm was a reminder that we can’t let our guard down and assume it’s clear sailing into summer from here on out. If you’re in charge of any commercial property it would be prudent to install  IceAlert®  products all around your buildings and parking lots to make dangerous icy conditions visible. Don’t let your staff and customers slip and fall because they were caught off guard and were not expecting sidewalks and streets to be slippery.  IceAlert®  products change color when icy conditions may be present, and your staff and customers can see at-a-glance that the temperature has dipped below freezing. 

It makes you wonder how many people slipped, fell, and sustained an injury, in just this one brutal weekend storm. Don’t let that happen to anyone on your property. And even if the freezing weather is finally in our rear view mirrors for this year, next fall will bring it all back again, and your  IceAlert®  products could already be installed and ready to use. Now is the time to install  IceAlert®  devices near stairwells, exit doors, parking lots and sidewalks.

And if spring is actually here to stay, then that means the blistering heat of summer is right around the corner. To prevent workplace heat illness, you can install  HeatAlert™  Monitoring Stations in all your indoor and outdoor work zones to make the presence of a dangerous heat index visible. In the case of  HeatAlert™  a strobe light of either amber or red flashes as long as the heat index exceeds a safe level. NOAA/OSHA has assigned specific danger levels to different heat indexes and all that data has been calculated into HeatAlert® Monitoring devices.