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WPG 2007 BUSINESS CONFERENCE

Whether you celebrate Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, New Year’s or just the over-all season, the holidays are an exciting and busy time, filled with feasting, celebrating, exchanging gifts, and visiting family and friends. With all the joys of the holiday season come potential safety hazards that can cause injury and even death.

Could this be you?? Before crawling up on the roof to string the Christmas lights, did you know that each year hospital emergency rooms treat about 12,800 people for falls, cuts, shocks, and burns due to incidents involving faulty holiday lights, dried-out Christmas trees and other holiday decorations? And did you know that Christmas trees are involved in about 300 fires annually, resulting in an average of 10 deaths, 40 injuries and about $7 million in property damage and loss? In addition, there are more than 15,000 candle-related fires each year, which result in 140 deaths and $307 million in property loss. Shocking, but true.

Don’t become one of these statistics! Pu-lee-eze follow these common sense rules when jazzing up your office, job site, and home.

The World Protection Group, Inc.’s goal is always to protect our clients and the United States of America from harm. This article should not be construed as a terrorist plot and is written for the purpose of creating security awareness and preventing the potential scenario described in the article.

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Workplace emergencies place employees, customers, the public, and even the environment in immediate danger. They are extremely unpredictable and can be natural or man-made. These unplanned events have been known to disrupt business operations and in worse case scenarios, even cripple them. Although most companies have prevention plans, which are equally as important, they are never fool proof. With so much at risk, businesses must supplement their prevention plans by creating and implementing an emergency action plan (EAP) as well.