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Small Business Safety and Threat Reduction

by admin in Insurance & Loss Prevention. Posted July 5, 2015

A Basic Guide To Conducting a Threat Assessment For Your Small Business How does the small business owner detect and prevent physical and cyber threats to the enterprise? Is it necessary, worthwhile or should anyone really care? With everything else for the shopkeeper to do, between ordering and inventorying merchandise, training employees and trying to ...

Suction Entrapment in Hotel Swimming Pools

by Thomas Cate in Insurance & Loss Prevention, Legal, Lodging, Safety & Security. Posted June 26, 2015

Background In June of 2002, 7-year old Virginia Graeme Baker drowned when she became stuck to the suction drain outlet of a hot tub. Baker, who had been swimming without assistance since age 3, was trapped underwater against the drain by the suction force of the water flowing into the drain. She was unable to ...

Compliance in Corporate Travel

by FCM Travel Solutions in Insurance & Loss Prevention, Travel. Posted June 24, 2015

How well do your employees follow company guidelines for business travel? Are there areas in your travel program where improved compliance could save you more? As demand for air travel and accommodation increases and market conditions continue to change, traveler compliance will become even more important for corporates keen to maintain control of their travel ...

Protecting Executives Abroad with Kidnap & Ransom Insurance

by Jeffrey Schulman in Human Resources, Insurance & Loss Prevention, Safety & Security, Travel. Posted June 11, 2015

For most Americans, the notion of being kidnapped and held for ransom is nothing more than the plot to a good action movie. For international business travelers, wealthy, or high-profile individuals living and traveling abroad (or individuals perceived as such), however, kidnapping can be a very real threat. Kidnapping for ransom has historically been a ...

Employee Theft – Protecting More Than Property

by Andria Ryan in Human Resources, Insurance & Loss Prevention. Posted June 11, 2015

The problem of employee theft in hotels is an age-old problem. Businesses lose billion of dollars each year in employee theft. And hotels, by nature, present numerous opportunities for employee theft from guests and the house. Theft in a hotel can take many forms – from identity theft to credit card fraud to theft of ...

An Introduction to Data-Driven Decisions for Managers Who Don’t Like Math

by Walter Frick in Hotel Development, Insurance & Loss Prevention, Technology. Posted June 8, 2015

Not a week goes by without us publishing something here at HBR about the value of data in business. Big data, small data, internal, external, experimental, observational — everywhere we look, information is being captured, quantified, and used to make business decisions. Not everyone needs to become a quant. But it is worth brushing up ...

Security in Bars, Taverns, And Nightclubs – It’s Not Just the Guards

by Donald Decker in Food & Beverage, Human Resources, Insurance & Loss Prevention, Safety & Security. Posted June 4, 2015

In many parts of countries around the world, the neighborhood bar provides a location for friends to gather. Taverns offer patrons a place to drink and dine. Night clubs offer a high energy atmosphere that combines dancing and the consumption of alcohol. Hotels, motels, and entertainment complexes often contain bars, taverns, and nightclubs. For the ...

Risk Management vs. Big Brother

by Craig Banikowski in Insurance & Loss Prevention, Risk Management, Safety & Security, Travel. Posted June 4, 2015

Craig Banikowski takes a look at the fine line between risk management and an overbearing and potentially privacy invading way of managing traveling employees. Read below for a look at useful tips to maintain safety from a close but reasonable distance. As travel professionals working in the aftermath of 9/11, the 2004 Madrid train bombings, ...

Hit By A Car – I Saw It Coming

by Stephen Anderson in Insurance & Loss Prevention, Travel. Posted May 27, 2015

There is a lot to watch out for and think about in ‘the big city’. Whether someone is driving or walking, they have to be cognoscente of other cars or pedestrians, traffic signals, construction zones, potholes or cracks, and a host of other obstacles. While driving into the city for an early meeting, I was ...

4 Tips for Surviving an Active Shooter

by admin in Food & Beverage, Human Resources, Insurance & Loss Prevention, Lodging, Safety & Security, Travel. Posted May 14, 2015

You’re working at your job or out in public, doing what you normally do and not expecting anything particularly exciting to happen. Then you hear a series of loud, muffled pops, not too close, but not very far away. Then you hear screams, faint and distant but getting louder. Then you hear another pop, only ...

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