Category: Safety and Security

Dog Training Education Month: February

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This is one of two dog training months, the first is sponsored and in January. This event is also sponsored and in February and covers the US and Canada. A trained dog is both a delight to be around and...

January

Return Shopping Carts to the Supermarket M...

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The Food Marketing Institute reports that nearly 2 million shopping carts (trollies) are stolen each year in the United States, translating into a per-store loss of $8,000 to $10,000 annually, and that's...

January

Teen Dating Violence & Prevention Month, N...

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Teen DV Month (National Resource Center for Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month), is sponsored by Break the Cycle and loveisrespect.com as a collaborative effort. This event began in 2010...

January

Burn Awareness Week, Ntl.: February 2-8

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Each year more than 60,000 children under the age of four are treated in emergency rooms across the country for burns. Burn Awareness Week, observed the first full week in February, provides an opportun...

January

White Cane Week (CA): February 2-8

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White Cane Week in Canada is a week long awareness campaign topped off with the Canadian Vision Impaired Curling Championship and countless local activities. Founded in 2006, White Cane Week seeks give...

January

Tinnitus Awareness Week (US/UK): February...

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National Tinnitus Awareness Week (TAW) in the United States and United Kingdom raises awareness on the malady “ringing in the ears", which affects nearly 14% of people worldwide. Of those, 7% test positiv...

January

Grain Bin Safety Week, Ntl: February 16-22

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Grain Bin Safety Awareness Week was created by Nationwide Insurance in 2013 to highlight the dangers to farmers of entering Grain Bins when machinery is active. Each year several dozen farm workers die o...

January

Car Insurance Day: February 1

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The first auto insurance policy was issued by Traveler’s Insurance in 1897 to Gilbert J. Loomis, who built a one-cylinder car. So why does this day fall on February 1st and most of the sources online li...

January

Missing Persons Day, Ntl.: February 3

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It’s every parent’s nightmare. Your child comes home from school, steps off the bus a couple houses away and vanishes into thin air. This is exactly what happened to 16-year old Ali Lowitzer on April 26,...

January

Home Warranty Day, Ntl.: February 10

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Builders, real estate agents and homeowners are the target of the National Home Warranty Day. It seeks to raise awareness on how new construction structural warranties and systems and appliances home warr...

January

Plimsoll Day (1824): February 10

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Plimsoll Day marks the birth of Samuel Plimsoll in 1824. Plimsoll was a member of the British Parliament and an advocate of sailors' safety. His work created the Plimsoll's bill, which ended the practic...

January

Umbrella Day: February 10

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Parasols, sunshades, umbrella, brolly, parapluie, rainshade, gamp, bumbershoot or umbrolly, however you refer to it, today is Umbrella Day. Umbrellas have been protecting people from the wind, sun, snow a...

January

Safetypup's Birthday (1985): February 12

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Introduced to the world on February 12, 1985, the National Child Safety Council marks the birthday of their beloved mascot Safetypup® on children's safety each year on this date. The mascot has been instr...

January

Battery Day (1745): February 18

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Today marks the birthday of the creator of the invention that would become the first necessity of the future communications age: the battery. It was on February 18, 1745 that Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio A...

January

NGO, World Non-Government Organization Day...

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An NGO is any organization that it is citizen based, independent from government influence and is not-for-profit. Doctors without Borders is one well known example. An NGO can be large or a small grassroo...

January

Child Safety Protection Month: November

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November is Child Safety Protection Month. It provides an opportunity for parents to review home safety precautions as they relate to their children. Parents are encouraged to create contingency plans o...

January

Critical Infrastructure Security and Resil...

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January

Patient Accessibility Week, Ntl.: November...

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January

Runaway Prevention Month, Ntl.: November

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January

Traffic Professionals Day, Ntl.: November...

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Annually on the 2nd or the first Monday in November, National Traffic Professionals Day pays tribute to the men and women who report on the traffic for local media and help us get from place to place.

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