by Guardian Safety Solutions International | Feb 18, 2013 | Blog, Senior Living
Pick up the paper or turn on the news. Why? Poor hearing and vision, as well as impaired mobility contribute to putting mature adults in the highest risk group for cooking fires. In addition to $7 billion in property damage per year in the U.S. alone, the National...
by Guardian Safety Solutions International | Feb 17, 2013 | Blog
Written in the LA Times When my husband and I checked into the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, nearly 30 years ago, he assessed it this way: “What a dump.” He was right. There were no smoke detectors and no sprinklers. We weren’t...
by Guardian Safety Solutions International | Dec 10, 2012 | Blog, Residential
Guardian Safety Solutions International (GSSI) warns families that the holidays can be hazardous to their health. About 45 house fires are reported every hour in the U.S., and 60 percent of apartment fires are started by cooking equipment. Sadly, children and the...
by Guardian Safety Solutions International | Nov 14, 2012 | Blog, Residential
Guardian Safety Solutions International (GSSI) experts estimate that more than 12 million unintentional cooking fires go unreported causing 640,000 injuries annually. When a cooking fire starts in a workplace cafeteria, be it a college, business or a police station,...
by Guardian Safety Solutions International | Sep 10, 2012 | Blog
Some of you may remember Guardian Safety Solutions International, Inc. (GSSI), our Texas corporation, as Twenty First Century Fire Equipment, a name we proudly served under for more than 20 years. We changed the named in 2008 to reflect the growing number of fires and...
by Guardian Safety Solutions International | Jul 25, 2012 | Blog
Guardian Safety Solutions International (GSSI) says that every year there are almost 4,000 hotel and motel fires reported to U.S. fire departments, resulting in $76 million in property loss, this according to the U.S. Fire Administration. Almost 50 percent of these...
