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Epack 3 - Employment Practices Liability
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CNA’s Epack 3 Employment Practices Liability (EPL) insurance coverage helps shield businesses, business owners and employees against loss from claims alleging wrongful employment practices.
Client Noncompliance: Checklist to Help Strengthen Communication
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This edition of Home Care Briefing addresses that clear communication and comprehensive and factual documentation are critical to minimizing noncompliance as well as limiting the impact of recalcitrant client behavior.
Protecting Workers Against Wildfire Smoke
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Wildfire smoke is a mixture of gases and fine particles from burning trees and other plant material that can be dangerous if inhaled. Smoke can irritate your eyes and respiratory system and worsen chronic heart and lung diseases.
This edition of Carefully Speaking® outlines strategies leaders can use to assess their organization's memory care strengths, limits and liability exposures.
Carefully Speaking®: Memory Care: Creating Safer Settings for the Cognitively Impaired
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This edition of Carefully Speaking® outlines strategies leaders can use to assess their organization's memory care strengths, limits and liability exposures.
Winter Driving
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Organizations with employees who drive in winter for company purposes should refer to these safety tips.
Winter Driving Guide
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Provide your employees with these safety tips to help them navigate through the winter driving season.
Ergonomic Tips for Working Remotely
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When working remotely, it is important to ensure that your workspace is set up for optimal comfort and productivity. These suggestions can help you work outside the office safely and successfully.
Small Business Operational Resilience Checklist
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This checklist provides actions for your organization to consider before, during and after a business disruption.
Ergonomics Tips for Fleet Safety
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Areas employers can focus on to enhance fleet driver safety and productivity.
Epack 3 - Fiduciary Liability
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CNA’s Epack 3 (EP3) Fiduciary Liability insurance is designed to address exposures arising from the administration and management of employee benefit and retirement plans.
Negotiated Risk Agreements: When and How Should They Be Used?
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Negotiated risk agreements (NRAs) have become an increasingly popular means of managing potential liability while accommodating resident preferences.
How You Can Stay Ethical and Help Clients Communicate Effectively on Social Media During Disputes
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This edition of In Practice...with CNA addresses social media communications and the difficulties that come with social media practices during disputes.
This resource outlines the importance of compliance and safety efforts focused on federal requirements as of the date of this guide’s publication.
Business Resiliency Training
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These courses, available 24/7 on CNA’s SORCE® On Demand platform, share valuable business resilience strategies that can benefit your organization.
Ammonia Refrigeration Liquid Level Indicators
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This bulletin covers how periodic inspection and maintenance of ammonia refrigeration liquid level indicators can reduce loss of mechanical integrity. Loss of mechanical integrity can result in significant financial impact if not correctly maintained.
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.
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.
Special Resource: The Mental Health Crisis
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The ongoing national mental health crisis is characterized by too few inpatient beds and overtaxed outpatient facilities. In fact under the present delivery system it is estimated that more than half a million individuals with serious mental illness do not receive the care they need.
Ethical Marketing: Minimizing the Risks of False Advertising
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This Home Care Briefing® examines some of the legal and regulatory concepts governing healthcare advertising and offers basic guidelines for minimizing marketing-related risks.
This edition of AlertBulletin is intended to help reduce risk by standardizing their wound photography practice.
Staff Absenteeism
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This edition of Home Care Briefing reviews the importance of seamless transitions during staff absences and timely coverage arrangements.
Second Chances Abound: Opportunities for Correcting Certain Omissions and Mistakes in Tax Elections
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This edition of In Practice...with CNA addresses tax laws and regulations and risk management tips to avoid election deadlines or managing filing errors.
Improving Work Conditions and Safety in the Roofing Industry
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This guide provides an overview of high-injury risk exposures and challenges related to process efficiency and discusses potential solutions.
Resident Selection: Screening Optimizes Placement Minimize Risk
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Comprehensive screening of residents assists in proper placement and creates a safe pleasant environment. An individual's strengths limitations social preferences and physical and mental status are factors to consider. Download to learn the processes for optimizing placement and minimizing risk.
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.
This AlertBulletin® examines risk exposures associated with electronic media use and offers general policy recommendations for the workplace environment.
Venipuncture Safety: Evaluating Key Policies and Procedures
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This edition of inBrief® offers a venipuncture safety checklist designed for use by both healthcare organizations and clinicians.
For Your Eyes Only: Securing Lawyer-Client Communications
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While acceptable response times were once measured in days modern communication channels have clients counting the hours or even minutes since they sent their email or text. File sharing also has accelerated with clients able to review revise and approve documents instantly.
Successfully Managing the Unforeseen Risks of Appellate Practice
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Appellate work is traditionally regarded as a risk-free area of practice and while they do not generate a significant number of legal malpractice claims they still bear a risk. Download to learn more about how to successfully manage the unforeseen risks
Evolving Models of Care: New Delivery Methods Present New Risks
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This edition of Vantage Point® identifies the elements of new healthcare delivery methods, describes the benefits and risks of these innovations, and suggests strategies designed to protect patients/residents and reduce liability exposure.
Fall Pocket Guide: Risk and Defensibility
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This guide is designed to encourage a proactive, systemic approach to enhancing resident safety by minimizing the likelihood of resident falls and mitigating their consequences.
Giving Business Advice Versus Legal Advice - The Pitfalls
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A lawyer's role and duty is to give advice - advice that might not be well received advice that when followed might not result in the best outcome advice that even when objectively correct ends up placing the lawyer in a defensive posture.
This edition of In Practice...with CNA examines the best practices for assisting a client who receives a Legal Hold Notice or preservation letter.
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.
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.
Crisis Management: Responding Effectively to Media Inquiries
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This edition of AlertBulletin is designed to help healthcare leaders communicate in a clear accurate and timely manner during a crisis.
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.
Pediatric Acute Care: A Systematic Approach to Error Reduction
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This edition of Vantage Point® offers strategies to help pediatricians hospitalists nurses and other healthcare providers and administrators identify major sources of harm prevent common pediatric safety lapses and recognize critical situations.
This edition of Carefully Speaking examines resident-on-resident sexual abuse an emerging risk that calls for a focused proactive response.
The Threat From Within: Theft and Fraud Inside Law Firms
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Law firms should take a proactive approach to protect themselves from the risk of theft and fraud by their own attorneys managers or support staff members. Download to learn more about how to prevent the threat of theft and fraud from within.
Sepsis Management: Five Strategies to Save Lives and Reduce Risk
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In this edition of Vantage Point : Sepsis and septic shock are serious secondary consequences of infection in which a toxic response by the body affects tissue integrity and organ function (and blood pressure in the case of septic shock).
Potential Pitfalls for Lawyers Practicing in Fracking Oil Rights
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The drilling and fracking of oil and gas deposits in the Marcellus Shale region has created business opportunities for lawyers. However this has led to an increase in legal malpractice claims. Learn more about the potential pitfalls for lawyers practicing in fracking and oil rights.
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.
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.
Risk Control Learning Modules
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Multi-generational Communication
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This edition of AlertBulletin® examines the issue of age-related diversity in a healthcare context. It offers three basic strategies designed to keep a multi-generational workforce informed connected and engaged.
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.