November 2020

October Occupational Safety Meeting:

Wednesday, November 18, noon

Virtual via Zoom

Topic: Traffic Safety Citizenship — It’s Up to Everyone

Speaker: Carol Lucio, Butler County Safe Communities

With an awareness that in the United States every 12 seconds someone dies in a motor vehicle crash, every 10 seconds a motor vehicle injury occurs, and every 5 seconds a crash occurs, the impact of traffic crashes on a company’s productivity due to short- or long-term absence can be devastating. With local crash data, Butler County Safe Communities will share why employers need to focus on traffic safety awareness and education and how it can impact the bottom-line for businesses in the community.

Reduce Your Risks In the Workplace: COVID-19 Resources

We encourage you to share this information as broadly as possible. Although this is by far not an exhaustive list of all the resources available to businesses, it provides a lot of information and resource links compiled in one location. It includes a list of general COVID-19 resources grouped by agency, a section with resources on reopening workplaces, and additional industry-specific section. If you have additional resources we can share with others please let us know.

COVID-19 Resources

Gratitude will boost your well-being and make others feel good too

With Thanksgiving around the corner, expressing thanks and appreciation is top of mind for many of us. And while cultivating an “attitude of gratitude” has well-being benefits all year round, now is the perfect time to jumpstart a more intentional gratitude practice in our day-to-day lives.

Making gratitude part of our everyday routine is a simple yet incredibly effective way to develop a more optimistic attitude, lessen stress, and uplift those around us. Gratitude gives us perspective and can even help us stick to better habits. In fact, researchers have found that gratitude can help us improve our sleep and lead to better eating. 

Best of all, practicing gratitude doesn’t have to take a lot of time, or come in the form of grand gestures. Acts of gratitude can be small, like saying thank you to a co-worker. Similarly, when reflecting on things you’re grateful for, you can also find gratitude for your everyday experiences — having a warm bed to sleep in, seeing a beautiful sunset, or sitting down to a nutritious meal.

How to Help Your Teenager Deal with Peer Pressure

Here are steps parents can take to help their kids cope.

Every parent worries about how their child will cope with peer pressure. Peer pressure is often considered as the cause for the usually ‘rebellious’ behaviour that adolescents display as they try to assert their independence and associate more with their friends and classmates. As much as parents want to wish it away, peer pressure is a reality that will continue to influence children.

Teach them to say no: You can teach your child ways to resist peer pressure—and you don’t have to wait till they reach adolescence to start.

Maintain open lines of communication with your child: There is no substitute for talking to your kid.

Boost your child’s self-esteem and assertiveness: Help your child become confident, assertive and develop positive self-esteem so that they don’t have to go looking for validation from their friends.

Reach out for help: Finally, if you believe peer pressure is leading your child to participate in risky behavior, don’t hesitate to seek professional help.

The Coalition for a Healthy Middletown works to provide knowledge and skills to increase the number of those parenting for prevention. All parents and guardians are encouraged to sign up and be in the KNOW. Click the link below to receive their newsletters.

National Teen Driver Safety Week in October was a focus for Butler County Safe Communities. Through the Project Ignition grant received from the National Youth Leadership Council (NYLC) they partnered with students and faculty to bring teen driver safety to the forefront at Butler Tech.

Take a look at the new signage located at the exits to the D. Russel Lee campus and the news story covered by WXIX FOX19: https://www.fox19.com/video/2020/10/19/butler-tech-teen-driving-program-stresses-seat-belts/