June is National Safety Month

June is right around the corner, which means it's almost time for National Safety Month, an annual awareness campaign sponsored by the National Safety Council.

Promote safety in your community with a custom imprinted health and safety giveaway from Crestline. You'll find several kinds of first aid kits, as well as preventative items, including safety cutters, personal alarms, safety lights, CPR kits, and much more. Fun items, like Crestline's hard hat stress ball or hard hat keylight, also make great gifts for awareness campaigns.

You can also enhance the message behind your awareness-raising gifts with free safety tips from the National Safety Council.

Show Your Patriotism this Memorial Day!

In just a few days, Memorial Day will be here. Communities across the nation sponsor parades to honor the many Americans who have sacrificed their lives for our freedom.

Show your gratitude with a custom imprinted giveaway. Kids and adults alike love receiving gifts during community events. These items can help them remember the significance of the day long after the last footfalls of the parade have passed by.

Crestline offers many patriotic-themed items, featuring our beloved Stars and Stripes, perfect for your holiday handouts. Looking for American-made items? Check out Crestline’s Made in the U.S.A. specialty store.

Crestline also carries many fun outdoor items, perfect for summer picnics and cookouts, including many styles of convenient portable coolers. And, if you’re headed to an outdoor event this Memorial Day, insect repellent and sunscreen are practical, thoughtful gifts your customers and prospects won’t soon forget!

Celebrate Nurses!

National Nurses Week is celebrated annually from May 6, also known as National Nurses Day, through May 12, the birthday of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing.

Show your appreciation for the important work nurses do with a gift from Crestline’s healthcare specialty store! There’s even a page of items especially for nurses.

Here are some other ideas for celebrating nurses this week, courtesy of the American Nurses Association:

• Hold a special celebration or reception to recognize a nurse or several nurses in your community. These nurses could be honored for heroic acts, years of service to the community, exemplary courage, or their commitment to the nursing profession over the years.

• Sponsor a community-wide event, such as a coloring contest or poem-writing contest for school children. The children could acknowledge their favorite nurse, a famous nurse, or family member who is a nurse - past or present - in a colorful drawing. The drawings could be displayed in local schools, hospitals, nursing homes, etc.

• Work cooperatively with hospitals, schools, and libraries to set up a special display for National Nurses Week using promotional materials, such as t-shirts, key rings, mugs, buttons, etc.

• Host a fund-raiser, such as a walk-a-thon, and donate the money to a local charity. Emphasize the importance of registered nurses in our nation's health care system; pay tribute to a local nurse; or recognize all registered nurses who are indispensable and provide care selflessly 24-hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.

• Suggest that your state or local newspaper solicit stories from readers who would like to pay tribute to a nurse who provided exemplary care.

Click here for more great ideas.

Stamp Out Hunger!

Did you know that 35 million Americans are hungry or living on the brink of hunger?

Help hungry people in your neighborhood this Saturday, May 9, by participating in national Stamp Out Hunger Day. To take part, simply leave a bag of nonperishable food by your mailbox. Your postal carrier will pick it up and deliver it to a food bank in your area.

For more information, visit http://www.helpstampouthunger.com/.

Helpful Flu Prevention Tips

Are you doing all you can to keep your staff, and those they come into contact with, safe and healthy?

Want to raise awareness among your staff and clients about the importance of healthy habits? How about a promotion from Crestline? Visit our flu prevention store for great items that can help you spread the word, and keep people safe.

Here are some helpful tips for preventing illness, from the Centers for Disease Control:

• Stay home when you are sick, and avoid close contact with other people who are sick.

• Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when coughing or sneezing. If there are no tissues handy, cough or sneeze into your sleeve.

• Keep your hands clean. Wash your hands with soap and clean running water for 20 seconds. If soap and clean water are not available, use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer to clean your hands.

• Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs are often spread when a person touches something that is contaminated with germs and then touches his or her eyes, nose, or mouth.

• Practice other good health habits. Get plenty of sleep, be physically active, manage your stress, drink plenty of fluids, and eat nutritious food.