Control your business risks with lockout/tagout safety Designed to protect employees involved in service and maintenance activities, lockout/tagout safety measures guard against the unexpected start-up of machines or equipment or the release of stored energy that could cause injuries. More prevalent in manufacturing companies, a lockout/tagout safety program can also be used at a bakery, […]

How you can help control business risk with a risk management plan In earlier blogposts, we’ve talked at length about risk assessment and management, along with loss control. Now let’s get down to brass tacks: What’s keeping you from creating your risk management plan, and keeping it going? While you can’t possibly eliminate all risk, […]

Retail data breaches: How shopowners can learn from others’ mistakes   Last year there were 3,950 confirmed data breaches exposing an overwhelming 4.1 billion compromised records, says Varonis, a data security platform. As of early April this year,  some 51 million people were hit by data breaches, up 564 percent for the first quarter, says […]

Why commercial auto claims are rising, and how you can keep your claims costs lower As a business owner, you may have noticed spiking commercial auto claims. If so, you’re not alone. It’s a nationwide epidemic of sorts. And it’s causing commercial auto insurance rates to rise faster than they have in more than a […]

In the era of COVID-19, everyday safety essentials include face masks, gloves, hand sanitizer and other equipment that helps stop the spread of infection. While these are important materials in terms of the pandemic, workplace personal protective equipment, or PPE, goes a step further. Multiple workplace situations may require PPE. While 2020 was the year […]

Safety steps for restaurants during COVID-19 While not proven to be a primary channel of the coronavirus transmission, it’s important to remain vigilant regarding restaurant food safety during COVID, especially as restrictions ease and food retail industries slowly begin to resume operations. If the operations of your enterprise include food retail of any kind, whether […]

Working Together While Working Apart: Managing a Remote Workforce Many business enterprises are evaluating approaches for return-to-work efforts and their related safety considerations. As many of these approaches utilize a gradual, phased approach, returning the entire team to “business as usual” probably won’t be an option for awhile. Remote work will continue to be the […]

How to guard against an insurance data breach and keep your cyberspace secure Regardless of the size of your company, you run the risk of a cyber attack which grows with the number of employees you have, particularly now since we’re mostly still working from home. Granted, an insurance data breach in a smaller firm […]

How to minimize your exposure when employees use their own vehicles Does your business (or your insurance client’s business) rely on employees using their own vehicles for work? If so, you may have automobile loss exposures for which you’re unaware, putting your business’s assets at risk. Whether employee-owned vehicles are used daily or sporadically, your […]

Insurers are using these simple but powerful innovations in a new way to lower claims times and costs   By Dhara Patel, president of ACM. This article originally ran in PropertyCasualty360 and is reposted here with permission. Sometimes a simple, mature technology can reap big rewards. A case in point is property-casualty claims management, where insurers […]