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Pre-Travel Health Planning Can Help You Avoid Common Issues

by Melissa Dudley in Human Resources, Risk Management, Safety & Security, Travel. Posted October 26, 2017

Pre-travel health planning is paramount. Travelers can face a variety of health-related threats while traveling abroad from infectious diseases and injury to exacerbating pre-existing medical conditions. Fortunately, many of these issues can be mitigated and even prevented prior to departure. Let’s take a look at some basic and proactive pre-travel health measures you should consider ...

Venue Protection in an Asymmetric Environment

by Security Strategies Today in Risk Management, Safety & Security. Posted October 24, 2017

In the aftermath of the horrific shooting at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas on October 1, hotel operators, cinema and restaurant managers as well as security personnel assigned to outdoor venues, have logically asked themselves how they can go about “hardening” the location. Specifically, what reliable measures can they take to make the ...

Cloud Computing Crash Course: Safety First

by Laura Marion in Risk Management, Safety & Security, Technology. Posted October 21, 2017

When it comes to privacy and security laws governing sensitive data, you don’t have to be a financial or health institution to have information that is subject to state and federal regulation. Almost every organization with employees stores some personally identifiable information. Simply storing an employee’s name, email address and date of birth will be ...

How to Protect Your Online Privacy

by Michael Susong in Risk Management, Safety & Security, Technology. Posted October 19, 2017

On a daily basis, the global media reports a huge loss of personnel data, damaged reputations, pilfered intellectual property, or millions of dollars stolen as the result of cyber incidents. An event reported in the news today will likely be eclipsed in scale or audacity in a few months’ time. Neither banks, global corporations, celebrities, ...

An Often Overlooked Tool in Workplace Safety Prevention: The Near-Miss Investigation

by John Ho in Insurance & Loss Prevention, Risk Management, Safety & Security. Posted October 11, 2017

OSHA defines a near miss as an incident in which no property was damaged and no personal injury was sustained, but where, given a slight shift in time or position, damage or injury easily could have occurred. Put simply, someone got lucky. Because there was no damage, these near miss incidents are often ignored or ...

5 Things All Businesses With Child Guests Should Include in a Child Protection Policy

by Faegre Baker Daniels in Insurance & Loss Prevention, Risk Management, Safety & Security. Posted October 6, 2017

Children and vulnerable adults (i.e., adults with disabilities who need assistance with self-care) face unique threats because of their inability to recognize and protect themselves from danger. Organizations that have direct or even indirect contact with children or vulnerable adults should create and adopt a child protection policy and related training program to better safeguard ...

The Importance of Reporting Workplace Injuries

by John Ho in Insurance & Loss Prevention, Legal, Safety & Security. Posted October 3, 2017

There are some OSHA lessons to be learned and things to think about from the recent Third Department case in Silvestri v. New York City Transit Authority, 2017 N.Y Slip Op 06123 (August 10, 2017). In Silvestri, the Third Department affirmed a decision by the Workers’ Compensation Board that the widow of a deceased employee working at ...

Protect Against Cyber Attacks: A New Guide to Help Small Businesses

by Cozen O'Connor in Safety & Security, Technology. Posted September 30, 2017

No business is too small to be the victim of a cyberattack. In fact, as larger companies invest more resources in cybersecurity, attackers are beginning to target smaller, less secure businesses. It is important for every small business to understand the risks and be prepared. To help, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) ...

How to make the most of your airport security experience

by Mark Dauner in Safety & Security, Travel. Posted September 28, 2017

When travelers talk about the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), it tends to be negative. “You won’t believe the nightmare I had getting through security this morning,” or “that TSA agent must have woken up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. Unless you really have nothing better to do, the TSA knows that ...

Travel Safety: Use of Vehicles as Weapons

by Security Strategies Today in Risk Management, Safety & Security, Travel. Posted September 7, 2017

It’s happened again-this time in Barcelona, on the popular tourist and historic street known as Las Ramblas. A man using a van as a weapon careened down one of the two narrow side streets that border the wide pedestrian path and used it as a missile of sorts, killing 14 innocent people and injuring up ...

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