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Workplace Safety and Occupational Health Consultation
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Confidential consultation helps employers identify and address hazards and establish or improve safety and health programs. Services are provided by consultants from state agencies or universities.
Why Hiring Licensed and Insured Contractors Is Essential
As a business owner, you will occasionally need to make repairs to keep your business and property safe and hazard-free. While it may seem tempting and less expensive to do a DIY project or hire an unlicensed contractor for these repairs, these shortcuts are not worth the cost in the long run. Here are some of the many reasons why only a licensed and insured contractor should complete your projects.
Preserving Video Surveillance
Businesses often use a video surveillance system to monitor their establishments for a variety of reasons, including security, property management, and liquor service monitoring. In the event a potential claim happens at your premises, it is crucial that video surveillance footage be handled and preserved correctly. If surveillance is handled incorrectly, it can become unusable and, in some cases, have a negative effect on the outcome of a claim settlement.
The Hazard Right Outside Your Door: Preventing a Slip and Fall Injury on Your Property
A small crack or uneven area in your sidewalk may not seem like a big deal, but it may be all it takes for a serious and costly injury to occur on your premises. As the area of your property most exposed to the public, your exterior walkways can pose a constant hazard...
The Importance of Adequate Lighting at Your Premises
To keep your premises safe, it is essential you have adequate lighting installed inside and outside. But what is adequate lighting? Adequate lighting is defined as having enough light to complete a task at hand. Whether that task is walking to a car in a parking lot...
5 Essential Steps for Winterizing Your Property
Cold weather and a drop in temperature can cause costly claims to occur on your premises. Follow these steps to make sure your vacant or occupied property is ready to withstand all the hazards that the winter season brings. 1. Protect Pipes (If Vacant) One cold snap...
Rental Property
Rental Homes: Reducing Risk and Preventing Claims
Do you own a rental home, or do you insure those who do? Tune in to this webinar to learn how to reduce many of the potential risks you are exposed to through your property and keep your dwelling claim-free. Guest speaker and attorney Sevan Gobel, of Lagasse Branch Bell + Kinkead LLP, will discuss real-life claim examples surrounding fires, pools, dog bites, negligent security and more.
Tips for Protecting Your Residential Condominium Units
A vital part of loss control is identifying and correcting hazards before a loss occurs. With spring just around the corner, as a residential condo investor, now is the time to assess your unit(s) to ensure your investments don’t cost you due to possible damage....
5 Ways to Prevent a Disaster at Your Condominium Building
In the aftermath of the June 2021 collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium building in Surfside, Florida, condominium associations across the country are searching for actions they can take to prevent such a tragedy from happening to them. Learn how you can...
Vacant Property
4 Essential Steps for Protecting Your Vacant Property
For vacant building owners, it can be easy to assume your property is a quiet, uneventful environment posing little to no risks. However, this assumption can lead to your property becoming an enticing and viable location for temporary shelter, theft, vandalism or...
Fire Prevention
Apartment Buildings: Avoid Fire Loss
Curious what the most common causes of habitational fire loss are? Interested in learning how to avoid these types of fire loss or what action to take should a fire loss occur? Watch USLI and John P. Freedenberg of Goldberg Segalla discuss recent events surrounding...
Guide to Protecting Your Property Against Wildfires
Wildfires can cause devastating, costly damage to your building. Discover ways you can be prepared.
Tips for Avoiding an Electrical Fire
Electrical fires involving some type of electrical failure or malfunction account for roughly 51,000 fires in the United States each year, amounting to $1.3 billion in property damage. Follow our tips to decrease the likelihood and severity of an electrical fire loss...
Summer Fire Hazards and Tips to Avoid an Accident
Summer is a time of year when many head outside to enjoy the weather and seasonal activities. But firing up the grill or enjoying fireworks can lead to serious accidents that could put you and your loved ones at risk of injury — and costly insurance claims. By taking...
Top 5 Fire Safety Tips for Your Food Truck
Food trucks have become a popular way for entrepreneurs to get their businesses off the ground. But these mobile restaurants are at an increased risk of fire hazard, posing a serious threat to the health and safety of employees, customers, bystanders and nearby...
5 Fire Safety Tips for Commercial Cooking Equipment
You’ve invested time and money into getting the proper commercial cooking equipment, from deep fat fryers and grills to hoods and duct exhaust systems, installed inside your restaurant. But all this essential equipment can easily malfunction without proper use and...
Water Safety
Jump In: Pool Safety for Residential and Commercial Exposure
May is National Water Safety Month — do you understand the importance of pool safety as it relates to commercial and residential exposures? Whether you’re an insurance professional and have clients with pools or are a pool owner yourself, understanding the most common...
Swimming Pool Safety Tips
While home and community pools serve as beloved areas of activity in warm weather, they can pose life-threatening risks. Keep reading to learn how you can make pool time safe and enjoyable. What’s the Big Deal? Recent statistics indicate: Drowning is the leading cause...