Rail Against the Danger

Great blog by my colleague in college safety, S. Daniel Carter

The “Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act” Would Better Reflect Scope of... Many people identify the Clery Act with crime statistics or the alerts that colleges and universities send out when there is a dangerous situation. As we often discuss with our clients though the law has grown over the last three decades to address a full spectrum of campus safety issues. The...

Why are safety rails essential at college? Listen to this podcast from Greek University we recorded last week. Heads up, fraternities and sororities...you are not only putting the lives of your brothers & sisters at risk, you are exposing your organization to a huge liability factor. This is common sense! Put rails on your lofts and top bunks!!

‎Fraternity Foodie Podcast by Greek University: Mariellen Jacobs: Why don't all colleges provide safety rails on student bunks and lofts? on Apple Podcasts ‎Show Fraternity Foodie Podcast by Greek University, Ep Mariellen Jacobs: Why don't all colleges provide safety rails on student bunks and lofts? - Oct 10, 2023

Five more to creep over 300. Can you help?

Track & Prevent Accidental Deaths on Campus – Pass the COREY Safety Act Please ask your U.S. Representative and Senators to support and pass the COREY Safety Act of 2023 (S. 2461/H.R. 4903). It will save lives on campus! •College students are 20 times more likely to be killed by an unintentional injury than a crime.* •There is no national data collection for acciden...

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Check out my latest blog post! You might be surprised at what we DON'T know about campus safety.

How Do We Measure College Safety? - Rail Against The Danger How do we begin to measure college safety? Is it the depth of a crack in a steep campus walkway? Is it the distance from the top of a bunk bed with no bed rail to the hard floor below? Is it how many miles the nearest Level l Trauma center is from campus? Maybe…

Track & Prevent Accidental Deaths on Campus – Pass the COREY Safety Act Please ask your U.S. Representative and Senators to support and pass the COREY Safety Act of 2023 (S. 2461/H.R. 4903). It will save lives on campus! •College students are 20 times more likely to be killed by an unintentional injury than a crime.* •There is no national data collection for acciden...

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Click to send an email to YOUR legislators. This is a U.S. Senate & House bill. We need you!

Can you take two minutes to prevent an injury or save the life of a college kid? Click the link to fill in your name and address. A pre-written letter is ready to fly through cyberspace to YOUR U.S. Senators & Representatives asking them to co-sponsor the COREY Safety Act. Please share this! YOU CAN HELP US SAVE LIVES!
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If you think safety rails are for toddlers, watch this.

Think You're Too Cool for a Safety Rail? Think you don't need a rail on your bunk or loft bed? Consider losing 19 months of your life, or even your life itself. Clark Jacobs' Mom wants to tell you a...

Rachael's First Week is spilling the tea on campus move-in, phone hacks and other stuff! Don’t miss her Safe Tea podcasts!

Check out Season 4 of SafeTEA by Rachael's First Week Podcast and don't miss two new episodes just released! Start your semester our right! www.rachaelsfirstweek.org/podcast'
Rail Against the Danger

Today's my birthday. My fundraiser this year is in honor and memory of my friend Nanette and her son Corey. https://www.facebook.com/donate/269735492362106/

Nanette's vision since I met her in 2020 (less than two years after her son died from a preventable accident on a college campus) has been to save other families from getting the phone call that their family got. "Your son has been in a terrible accident." Six hours later he was gone. The COREY Safety Act asks a simple question: Why aren't we reporting accidents on our college campuses that result in injury or death? Nanette passed away in April and we fight on in her honor and memory. And her dear son Corey's. Can you help?

Rachael's First Week is spilling the tea about move-in day at your residence hall. Rail Against the Danger is featured, talking about safety rails!

NEW PODCAST OUT TODAY‼️ Listen to great advice and tips for dorm life, guest hosted by our sister podcast, Three College Idiots. Please share with all the college students in your life and parents of college students! Hear from the founders of Rail Against the Danger an organization working to ensure dorm beds are safe for students. https://bit.ly/3hWKtO9

You might be wondering who/what is COREY? Please watch this video from his mother's heart and it will be crystal clear what we are fighting for with the COREY Safety Act. She lost her son in 2018 and she died 5 years later fighting for other people's children. My dear friend, Nanette Hausman https://youtu.be/a7IOSy0omJQ

No one plans to roll out of bed and fracture their skull. But it happens. More than you know. Please sleep safe. Get a safety rail. It could prevent serious injury and maybe even safe your life.

Use Safety Rails on Your Bunk Bed - Rail Against The Danger Many college kids are injured each year because of not having safety rails. Clark Jacobs, studying at Georgia Institute of Technology was one of them.

As you add all of your comfy covers, mattress pads, and fluffy comforters to your bed, don't forget to leave room for your safety rail! The Consumer Product Safety Commission standard states that you need 5 inches from the top of the bedding to the top of the safety rail to be fully effective. Sleep safe!

https://www.campussafetymagazine.com/university/bunk-bed-accidents-account-for-71000-er-visits-each-year/

Bunk Bed Accidents Account for 71,000 ER Visits Each Year An advocacy group founded by a Georgia Tech student who suffered a traumatic brain injury after falling from a top bunk is urging college campuses to require bed rails.