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Checklist: How to Prepare Your Business for Hurricane Season
How do you prepare your business to weather the potential damages hurricanes can cause? The good news is that a relatively small investment of time and money now may prevent severe damage and disruption to your business down the road. Here’s a checklist to get you on the right track. 1. Know your building’s vulnerability…
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Year-Round Home Maintenance Checklist
To preserve your home’s value and help prevent damages, it’s important to regularly take a look around your home and address any needed maintenance. This handy checklist, organized by time of year, can help you stay on track, save money, and keep everyone in your home cozy, safe, and comfortable. Spring Get your home’s HVAC…
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De-Escalation in Hospitality: Enhancing Safety, Respect, and Risk Management
The Critical Role of De-Escalation in Hospitality In the dynamic and often high-pressure environment of hospitality, managing conflict effectively is not just a matter of good customer service, it is a vital component of safety, risk management, and business continuity. Whether in hotels, restaurants, bars, or event venues, employees frequently encounter situations involving upset guests,…
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The High Cost of Workplace Complacency in Risk Management: Why Organizations Can’t Afford to Ignore It
Beyond the direct and indirect financial losses, complacency exacts a heavy toll on the human element—leading to more injuries, lower morale, and even loss of life—and erodes the safety culture that underpins sustainable operational success. As businesses navigate demanding production schedules and challenges in hiring and retaining good employees, complacency remains a hidden but costly…
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Compliance Q&A: Reporting Prescription Drug and Health Care Spending
Interested in the steps plan sponsors need to take to comply with the RxDC rules? Learn these steps and how they fit into the larger picture of healthcare transparency laws in this compliance QA.
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Guestroom Privacy and Key Control: From Policy Statement to Operational Imperative
When it comes to liability in hotels, few issues rival the reputational damage and monetary losses stemming from failures in guestroom security and privacy protection. The infamous Erin Andrews v. Marriott case—resulting in a $55 million jury award to the Fox Sports reporter—remains a stark reminder of how critical these protections are.1 Such privacy violations…
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7 Security Tips for Your Vacation Home
Do you have a second home in the mountains, at the beach, or in another getaway spot? Since you don’t spend all of your time at your vacation property, it’s important to take steps to protect your home from theft or vandalism when no one is around. A vacant home is extremely vulnerable. Have you…
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Building a Culture of Wellness and Safety
It is not uncommon to hear that while many employers have both safety and wellness committees, they rarely interact with one another. Employees, managers, and leaders may inherently realize that there are benefits to combining safety and well-being efforts, and quite a bit of overlap, but they also may encounter difficulties when it comes to…
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Are Chronic Conditions Driving Up Your Workers’ Comp Spend?
There is a direct correlation between employee well-being and workplace safety. Healthier employees tend to be safer, leading to fewer on-the-job accidents. However, the presence of chronic and often co-morbid conditions, such as diabetes, obesity, arthritis, asthma, hypertension, depression, and anxiety, can impact employees’ ability to perform their jobs safely and add significant complexity to…