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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A survey of US State Workers’ Compensation Laws and their Application to Traveling Employees

by admin in Insurance & Loss Prevention. Posted May 14, 2015

Co-authored by Brenda-Lee Ravdel and Stephen Barth How do the US 50 states’ workers’ compensation laws protect US businesses and their global and domestic travelers at home and abroad? INTRODUCTION: Business Travel by United States companies has grown exponentially over the past years. As a result, both the foreseen and unforeseen liabilities for businesses and ...

The Invisible Killer: Carbon Monoxide Safety and Hotels

by admin in Insurance & Loss Prevention, Lodging, Safety & Security. Posted May 14, 2015

Carbon monoxide has been in the news recently in the wake of a series of gas-related deaths in a North Carolina hotel. While statistically rare, carbon monoxide poisoning nonetheless presents a serious problem for both hotel operators and their guests. This gas—odorless, tasteless, and colorless—can emit from malfunctioning furnaces and water heaters. If inhaled in ...

Active Shooting: It Can’t Happen Here

by admin in Food & Beverage, Insurance & Loss Prevention, Lodging, Safety & Security, Travel. Posted July 28, 2014

After almost every active shooting in the United States the residents of the victim city invariably say, “It can’t happen here”. But it does and in every state. From Hawaii and Alaska to Maine and Florida, active shooter deaths or workplace violence homicides have plagued communities. No state is immune. No community is unaffected by its brutality, insanity ...

Emergency Preparedness

by admin in Insurance & Loss Prevention, Safety & Security. Posted July 22, 2014

Safety During Severe Weather Depends on you With the summer Atlantic hurricane season upon us, now is a good time to review storm emergency preparation procedures and to assemble the necessary supplies to sustain you and your family should your area be hit by devastating winds, rains and flooding. For those who do not live ...

To the World Cup and Beyond: Efective Risk Management

by Paula Bonavides in Insurance & Loss Prevention. Posted June 1, 2014

Effective risk management (against calamities such as political unrest, violent crime, health problems, ransom kidnapping, automobile accidents, building fires, and the like) is correlated with intelligent decision-making. Sending off employees to a foreign country might expose them to the risk of contracting diseases they had never before imagined, or to completely different laws and traditions—or ...

Duty Bound

by Fatima Durrani Khan in Insurance & Loss Prevention, Safety & Security, Travel. Posted March 10, 2014

“Duty of care” is the new buzzword across the travel risk management industry, as corporate travel managers increasingly recognize their central role and responsibility in creating a strong, balanced business travel policy that protects their employees. Though duty of care has existed in common law for a long time, the application of duty of care laws to the ...

Liability Insurance: An Essential Precaution

by Stephen Barth in Insurance & Loss Prevention, Legal. Posted October 23, 2013

It has been said that in an insurance policy “the large print giveth and the fine print taketh away.” To avoid this from happening, a few caveats are in order. When you buy liability coverage for your hotel or restaurant operation, you should receive a measure of protection and peace of mind, but for some ...

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