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This edition of In Practice with CNA...® emphasizes the importance of evaluating one's options and purchasing appropriate tail coverage before, and not after an attorney retires, changes firms and/or switches insurance carriers.
Product Safety Culture
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Producing safe products should be embedded in a company’s culture and should involve everyone in the company.
Office Ergonomics Checklist
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Use this Office Ergonomics Checklist to help improve your office workstation comfort and productivity.
Emergency Action Planning: Violence in the Workplace
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See immediate response actions for consideration for both supervisors and employees.
This edition of Carefully Speaking examines resident-on-resident sexual abuse an emerging risk that calls for a focused proactive response.
Managing the Threats of Workplace Violence
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Compelling evidence suggests that employers who take a proactive stance toward concerning behaviors are more successful in deterring workplace violence.
Installation, Operation and Maintenance of Rental Boilers
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When damage occurs to equipment or property, necessitating the installation of rental boilers, the last thing you want is the rental equipment to fail.
Risk Mitigation Tips for Contracting with Owner Operators
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Organizations should consider following certain protocols when selecting whom to contract with for the safe and secure transportation of goods.
Alarm-free Environments: Guidelines for a Safe Smooth Transition
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This edition of Alert Bulletin® is designed to aid leaders in reviewing and updating policy in this area focusing on five key steps in the decision-making process.
Electronic Healthcare Records: Maximize Benefits Minimize Risks
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Electronic healthcare records (EHRs) have revolutionized the practice of medicine creating the potential for significant improvements in patient safety clinical teamwork and operational efficiency.
This edition of inBrief® offers a self-assessment tool designed to assess compliance with basic continuity of care protocols and determine where improvement is needed.
Machine Guarding
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Most machines present hazards such as in-running nip points, rotating equipment, flying chips or sparks, belts or gears, and parts that impact or shear.
Working in Confined Spaces
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A “confined space” may be generally defined as any area which has limited means of egress and is subject to oxygen deficient atmosphere or to the accumulation of toxic or flammable vapors.
Diagnostic Error: Common Causes, Effective Countermeasures
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To help facilities and providers prevent incidents related to diagnostic inaccuracies and minimize consequent liability, this issue of inBrief examines common sources of error and presents strategies designed to enhance diagnostic accuracy.
Multi-passenger Vehicles: A Brief Guide to Fleet Safety
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This edition of AlertBulletin lists basic risk control strategies, describes common driver-related risk factors that contribute to accidents and suggests specific countermeasures.
This edition of AlertBulletin® focuses on the importance of establishing a setting-specific, appropriately scaled framework for crisis decision-making before disaster strikes.
Smartphones and Social Media: Tips on Preventing Staff Misuse
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This edition of Alertbulletin® examines three major types of liability - privacy breaches, unauthorized social media posting and data spoliation claims - that may arise from unapproved technology use in the residential care setting.
Remote Patient Monitoring: Five Basic Risk-reduction Strategies
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This edition of AlertBulletin® focuses on five risk control strategies to help healthcare organizations and provider protect themselves against RPM-related liabilities.
CERTA - NRCA Certified Roofing Torch Applicator Program
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Since the implementation of the CERTA Program, CNA has helped roofing contractors save over $12 million in potential incurred claims.
Protecting Against Heat Stress
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Workers performing physical labor in industries such as foundries, laundries, construction, manufacturing and landscape operations are often exposed to hazardous heat conditions that can have severe health and safety outcomes.
This AlertBulletin looks at the need to develop an understanding of COC that can aid staff in detecting significant changes.
Emergency preparedness planning should be a core component of every healthcare setting's risk management program.
International Solutions Success Stories
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This document touches on successes CNA has had in ten different locations around the world.
Treatment Teams: A Keystone of Healthcare Safety Culture
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This edition of AlertBulletin® suggests ways to cultivate a team-driven safety culture; reviews specific clinical applications of teamwork concepts; and offers examples of innovative team-oriented models of care.
Recognizing and Managing Your Organization's Shipping Risks
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It is recommended that due diligence be exercised when identifying and selecting third-party transport carriers to hire.
Resilience Checklist for Approaching Hurricanes
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When a storm is forecasted to make landfall, consider the following actions to minimize impact to business operations before, during and after it has passed.
Driver Selection Guide
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The following guidelines can help implement, enhance and maintain your driver selection process.
Serious Adverse Events: Creating a Sound Crisis Response Plan
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This edition of AlertBulletin(r) focuses on the essential elements of serious adverse event crisis management.
Risk Control Learning Modules
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Subcontractor Prequalification Guide
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When developing a prequalification form or application the hiring contractor should consider the following.
New York City Sidewalk Law
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If you own or lease space within a property in New York City, it is vital to understand where your responsibilities lie when it comes to sidewalk maintenance.
Driver Performance Solutions
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Driver behavior affects your commercial auto fleet's performance and your bottom line every trip every day. However not every business gives this critical safety topic the attention it deserves and that can lead to costly liability claims.
Select Risk Property Sell Sheet
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Learn how CNA's Select Risk Property team can help wholesale insurance brokers address hard-to-place risks.
Electrical Preventive Maintenance and Inspection
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Electrical equipment is usually well designed and properly installed. However, the principal reason for electrical system breakdown is the failure to maintain the installation in its designed state.
International Reach with a Local Touch
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In today’s ultra-competitive business world, finding a way to increase profits is crucial, leading companies to transact business with clients beyond their own borders
Ergonomics Solutions for the Construction Trades
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Injury risk is managed proactively when work is designed with considerations for efficiency and employee capabilities. This results in a larger percentage of the workforce performing work tasks safely.
Resident Falls: A Collaborative Strategy for Risk Mitigation
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A summary of common fall-related allegations and preventive measures. An effective fall- and fracture-reduction program can help curb the rise in claim severity.
Use this guide to help quantify your facilities’ freeze risk and to implement preventative measures to keep your key fire protection systems operating as intended during the cold weather months.
Advance Conflict Waivers: Use Them or Lose Them?
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"In Practice... With CNA" explains that when relying on an advance waiver, practitioners should be cognizant of the speficity of such waivers, and would be prudent to re-evaluate their scope as conflict arises.
New York State Labor Law
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If you own or lease space within a property in New York City, it is vital to understand where your responsibilities lie when it comes to sidewalk maintenance.
Occupational Vibration Exposure and Controls Guide
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By implementing these solutions, employers can effectively reduce workers’ exposure to vibration and mitigate the risks associated with HAVS and whole-body vibration.
Monoline Equipment Breakdown Sell Sheet
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Learn about CNA's strengthened Equipment Breakdown insurance capabilities - including expanded monoline coverages, a flexible form and a broad appetite for risk.
Emergency Preparedness: Crafting a Sound Disaster Response Plan
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As weather-related exposures increase emergency preparedness planning becomes an ever more significant aspect of the organization's overall risk management program.
2023 Strategic Business Resilience Report
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CNA’s 2023 Strategic Business Resilience report was created to help leaders build a resilient culture and develop a sustained ability to endure disruptive events.
By continuously monitoring vital signs, motion patterns and environmental conditions, wearable devices provide early warning signals, facilitate emergency response and support post-incident analysis for preventive measures.
Indoor Walkway Safety Audit Checklist
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This checklist may not include all conditions, as it is intended to be used only as a guide.
Active Shooter Response: Precautionary Measures Save Lives
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This edition of AlertBulletin® includes measures that can significantly enhance organizational response to a potentially panic-inducing situation.
CNA's Alert Bulletin discusses strategies for how organizations can transform their current rounding program into a powerful quality improvement and risk control tool.
Cybersecurity: Protect Patients by Preventing Data Breaches
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This inBrief explains how every healthcare facility must be vigilant in guarding against data breaches and system infiltrations, which can endanger both patient confidentiality and safety.
Weight-Loss Medications: A Risk Management Overview
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This edition of AlertBulletin® examines the risks associated with the prescribing and compounding of weight-loss medications and offers a variety of suggestions designed to limit potential liability.