October is Breast Cancer Awareness Monthand VPPStore has come up with a  collection of products not only to promote safety, but to promote and support a cause.  Take a look at our selection…

Pink Hard Hats

For the month of October, VPPStore is selling individual Pink Hard Hats for $30.  The Hard Hat features the OSHA VPP logo and meets ANSI Z89.1, Type 1, Class C, E and G requirements. 

Click Here to purchase your Pink Hard Hat.

Pink Handi Klip™ by Glove Guard®

 VPPStore is bringing you the  Handi Klip™ in Pink by Glove Guard®.  The Handi Klip™ features the Standard VPP Logo or OSHA VPP Logo.  Keep your gloves close at hand and safe. 

$3.99 each
Minimum order: 25 pieces
Price includes one color logo in black

Click Hereto purchase your Pink Handi Klip™

Awareness Women’s Stretch Polo

In honor of of Breast Cancer Awareness month, a portion of the proceeds from this product will be donated to help fight breast cancer!

$28.50 each
Minimum order: 6 pieces

Click Here to purchase your Awareness Polo

Show your support for a cause and for your safety program!

The VPPStore Team

To start off learning about the VPP Personal concierge, I encourage you to watch the  Adventures in Safety Promotion episode on the VPP Personal Concierge.

If you have read it, and have more questions, please view a new presentation outlining how the program works.

To order your very own Personal Concierge, take a look at our VPP online store and buy one today or call 800-868-7018 with any questions!

Glove Guard and Utility Guard

VPPStore is now proud to carry Glove Guard® products! The Glove Guard® is a simple yet useful tool that keeps your safety gloves close for those times when you need them. It reduces glove replacement costs by preventing workers from leaving gloves lying around and picking up new ones when they can’t find them.  It also reduces hand injuries by making it easy for workers to grab gloves before doing a potentially dangerous job.

Read how the Glove Guard® has worked for others:

• Use of the Glove Guard® products reduce direct and indirect costs associated with hand injuries.  If personal protective equipment is available, it will be used.

“Use of the Glove Guard® has enabled us to far surpass our initial expectations.  It has become as common as hard hats and safety glasses.  Recordable hand injuries have been reduced by as much as 86%.” Exxon Polymers Group

• Use of the Glove Guard® products reduces glove replacement cost, cost associated with environmental clean up, and the patented break-away provides a level of reduced liability.

“In the last three months, about 80% of the glove replacement cost is due to lost or misplaced gloves, your product will help greatly reduce that number.”  Unilever HPC

• Use of the Glove Guard® products along with a company’s safety program incentive combines the dollars spent with a tool that will actually help accomplish the safety goals.

Major companies are using the Glove Guard® products as safety incentives with their company logo, their safety program’s slogan, or one of the Standard Safety Slogans to get the safety message across while providing a tool to accomplish the safety goal and reduce glove replacement costs.

Take a look at the Glove Guard® on our webstore and start cost savings and injury prevention today!

Safety Sam and Safety Sally are in San Antonio gearing up for the 2009 VPPPA National Conference.  Follow them in Episode: VPP Personal Concierge where they use their concierge card to locate the best steak in town and grab some tickets to the Astros game all with the help of their very own VPP Personal Concierge.

So Why Use The Concierge Card To Promote Your Safety Program?

This card has got to be the most interactive and personalized item on the market.  With that being said, what can it do for your safety program?  This card comes in several designs to illustrate your achievements in VPP whether you just received your first certification, are celebrating your completion of a recertification, or awarded Star Among Stars.

But it doesn’t end there.  Your employees’ session with the VPP Personal Concierge is completely customizable. Perhaps you want the VPP Personal Concierge to close with a congratulatory message thanking your employees for their hard work in achieving Star Status.  This is one cool way to express your appreciation and remind your safety team of their dedication to the program.

How Does It Work?

Upon purchasing the card, you decide how many minutes you want (5, 10, 20, 30, 60, 90).  You will also want to think about how you want to personalize the greeting and closing messages; Your VPPStore Customer Care Team will take you step by step in setting this all up for you.

When you hand the cards out, each card will have an instruction sheet and a unique ID#.  The card holder will be instructed to register their card to their cell phone online using the ID#.  This allows the VPP Personal Concierge to personally greet the card holder by recognizing the cell phone #.

The card holder then can use the services by asking ANYTHING, ANYTIME, ANYWHERE.  Want to know what the weather will be like in a city you plan to travel to?  Need to know the stats on the game you missed last night?  How about scheduling a reminder to have the VPP Personal Concierge call you so you don’t forget an important event or meeting?

Please call 800-868-7018 to speak with a VPPStore Customer Care Team Member to learn more about the VPP Personal Concierge Card or check them out on our Online Catalog.

The VPPStore Team

Safety Sam and Safety Sally are back for their first adventure, Episode: TrackItBack Loyalty Label

Follow them as they try to use the Loyalty Label found on an abandoned cell phone to help “track it back” to the owner.

So Why Use The Loyalty Label To Promote Your Safety Program?

A common obstacle among safety programs is employee involvement.  So what better way to remind your employees of safety than to put the VPP logo on the personal belongings they value most.  Not only will the loyalty label help keep their personal belongings safe, but every time they use their cell phone or reach for their keys, the VPP logo is right there to remind them the importance of safety and their dedication to the program.

How It Works:

This label can be put on your cell phone, laptop, keys, iPod, and any other personal belonging.  Each label has a unique ID# which you use to register your personal belonging online.  You enter the desired information in which TrackItBack uses to reunite you with your lost and found item. 

So when you accidentally leave your cell phone somewhere, the finder can call the 800-number on the label and inform TrackItBack of the lost and found item.  The best part, TrackItBack will pay for the costs to get your personal belonging back to you and give the finder a reward. Everyone wins!

To see the Fox News story behind this lifesaver, click here!

The VPP Loyalty Label is EXCLUSIVELY sold by VPPStore.  call 800-868-7018 or visit our Online Catalog to learn more about keeping your personal belongings safe and promoting your safety program with the VPP Loyalty Label.

The VPPStore Team

The VPPStore Team is proud to introduce Safety Sam and Safety Sally.

Follow them on their adventures in helping you motivate your team and promote your safety program.  Watch this episode as Safety Sam and Safety Sally introduce  themselves.  But stay tuned for their first adventure!!

You can also view this episode and many more on the VPPStore YouTube Channel

The VPPStore Team

USA TODAY article titled “Hispanic Worker Deaths up 76% since 1992” discusses a serious and current issue among the workforce in several industries.  The following is a summary of the content…

The 2007 tally from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recorded 990 Hispanic deaths in 2006.  In Texas, 50 Hispanic workplace deaths were investigated by OSHA officials last year.

Workers who cannot provide legal documentation to work in the U.S. are more averse to joining a union, which helps protect workers from such negligence on the job.

The underlying issue behind these fatalities is the lack of proper training and the language barrier.  VPP is designed to promote awareness and keep the workplace safe, but we cannot hold a blind eye to any slightest possible cause of injury or even death.

VPPStore is stepping up and is able to provide all of its awareness products to be translated into any language.  The language barrier is no joking matter especially when safety is held to the highest standard.  Being able to provide VPP banners, posters, and other awareness products in another language, we hope to help you reach out and gain the awareness of the multicultural workforce.  A great product to have translated around your facility would be the “Elements and Sub-Elements of VPP” banners, posters, and badges.

Click Here to view all of our VPP products and please call 800-868-7018 to talk with a VPPStore customer care team member about getting your VPP products translated.  We want to help you cross the language barrier.

The VPPStore Team

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To read the USA TODAY article in full detail, click here to read more.

Other helpful links:

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Occupational Safety & Health Administration

The title says it all.  VPPStore has its very own YouTube channel featuring videos of our very own VPPStore team talking about our products.

Wanna hear about our flags?  Check out what Stephanie has to say about one of our hot sellers

(click here to shop for your next flag)

Did you know that VPPStore is home of the VPP Annual Commemorative Hat?  Hear what Dan has to say about this year’s 2009 VPP Commemorative Hat

(click here to purchase your Commemorative Hat) 

Be sure to bookmark our YouTube channel so you can stay tuned to what our VPPStore team has to say about our products and more!

Click here to visit VPPStore’s YouTube channel

So sit back, relax, and enjoy the show!

Your VPPStore Team

The VPPStore Team invites all VPP participants to take part in the blog and show their dedication to Safety.

We want to hear about your achievements and share them with the community.  Your story may be helpful and motivating to others who are thinking about joining the program.  Send us pictures of your most recent VPP celebration and a paragraph or two describing your experience with VPP.

Please provide as much of the the following information to Stephanie at  falkiewicz@vppstore.com as she will be  in charge of publishing these articles.

Name of Company

Location (city, state)

When you were first certified

When your last certification was received

Attach any pictures in the e-mail that you may want to share with the community (example: flag raising ceremony, celebrating your rectification, or any other occasion involving safety you wish to share)

And of course… a summary of your experience with VPP and achieving your goals.

Once published, you will receive a notification via e-mail informing you that your article is up and running and ready to be shared.  This is a great way for you and your facility to stay involved, be motivated and most of all, Proud To Be VPP Participants.

Remember, these articles on our blog will be available to the public.  We do not require you to share personal information in the article about those who are involved with your safety program.

We look forward to hearing your story and sharing it with the community.

The VPPStore Team