{"id":530,"date":"2010-07-27T20:20:02","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T17:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/?p=530"},"modified":"2023-11-14T21:19:18","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T03:19:18","slug":"flammable-safety-products-part-1-smart-business-is-being-prepared-for-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/safety-products\/flammable-safety-products-part-1-smart-business-is-being-prepared-for-anything\/","title":{"rendered":"Flammable Safety Products &#8211; Part 1: Smart Business is Being Prepared for Anything."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"_mcePaste\">\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">Here&#8217;s some startling facts that will make business owners and employees cringe.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\n<ul>\n<li>112,000: That, my friends, is how many fires took place in businesses in 2008.<\/li>\n<li>$3,800,000,000.00: This was the total amount in business property loss.<\/li>\n<li>1,400: That number equals the amount of people that were injured in these fires.<\/li>\n<li>120: This is the unfortunate number of lives that were lost due to those fires.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">There&#8217;s not one good thing you can take from those numbers. \u00a0What the figures don&#8217;t show is how many lives were saved in 2008 because the industry got smart and spent money on fire safety. \u00a0Further proving that smart business is not merely making a profit, it is defined by being prepared for anything.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_531\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-531\" style=\"width: 140px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Safety-Products1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-531\" title=\"Safety Products\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Safety-Products1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Safety Products\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Safety Products will save business and lives.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">An employee just finishes up staining a tabletop. \u00a0He throws the rag into the waste basket as he clicks off the lights and walks to another workspace in the building. \u00a0A few hours later the rag ignites catching everything in the basket on fire. \u00a0Next, the wall catches fire and not very long after that the room is engulfed in flames. \u00a0What follows is a disaster that ends with a smoldering pile of rubble and ash where a thriving refinishing\/woodworking business once stood.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">Take that same employee, finishing the tabletop. \u00a0Now place a <a title=\"Combustible Safety Waste Cans\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/JUSTRITE-Combustible-Safety-Waste-Cans-id8728.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Combustible Safety Waste Can<\/a> in the room. \u00a0He throws the rag into the combustible safety waste can. \u00a0He shuts off the lights and moves on to another room in the building. Later that night the cans are properly emptied and business continues on as usual. \u00a0Saved by a safety product that costs around $70.00. \u00a0Simple solutions save businesses and lives.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some startling facts that will make business owners and employees cringe. 112,000: That, my friends, is how many fires took place in businesses in 2008. $3,800,000,000.00: This was the total amount in business property loss. 1,400: That number equals the amount of people that were injured in these fires. 120: This is the unfortunate &#8230; <a title=\"Flammable Safety Products &#8211; Part 1: Smart Business is Being Prepared for Anything.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/safety-products\/flammable-safety-products-part-1-smart-business-is-being-prepared-for-anything\/\" aria-label=\"More on Flammable Safety Products &#8211; Part 1: Smart Business is Being Prepared for Anything.\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[127,128,129,126,1086],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-safety-products","tag-combustible-safety-waste-can","tag-flammable-waste-cans","tag-plunger-cans","tag-safety-cans-and-caddies","tag-safety-products"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13316,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions\/13316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}