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This edition of Vantage Point® list common types of acquired infections and discusses the four cornerstones of an effective infection control program.
Product Quality Supply Chain Tips for Success
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Companies use various strategies to execute a supply chain control plan. Internally managing the plan allows for continuous monitoring, making adjustments and implementing improvements.
Supply Chain Risk Management
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Understanding and analyzing your supply chain's strengths and vulnerabilities are vital components of business continuity management.
Risk Transfer Suggested Practices
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You may be able to reduce your chances of unknowingly accepting someone else’s liability or being exposed to additional liabilities by following the practices suggested in this guide.
A Bad Economy Increases Risks for Lawyers
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Professional Counsel addresses that law firms must remember the fiduciary duties owed to clients, the ethical duties imposed upon them by the Rules of Professional Conduct, and best practices for avoiding claims.
Contractual Risks: Understanding Indemnification and Subrogation
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Via third-party contracts many healthcare organizations outsource a wide range of clinical, technical and administrative functions.
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.
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.
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.
Enhancing Floor Safety: Slip Resistance Maintenance & Risk
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Slips and falls can happen anywhere. Whether it's a visitor customer or your employee what matters most is that you implement a prevention program to increase safety and reduce liability exposures.
Telemedicine: A Brief Guide to the Emerging Risks of Remote Care
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Telemedicine is one aspect of the broader practice of telehealth which encompasses a range of clinical services.
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.
Independent Living: Major Risk Factors Effective Interventions
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This Alert Bulletin highlights critical issues facing independent living including increasing acuity levels and care needs as well as allegations of wrongful placement and retention.
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.
If lawyers seek to continue to practice law they must devote time and resources to instituting sound banking and trust accounting procedures and supervising the parties entrusted with the authority to handle client funds.
Residents with Serious Mental Illness: Addressing Common Risks
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This month's Carefully Speaking® outlines strategies that can help administrators enhance quality of care, reduce liability exposure, and help mental health residents achieve a more secure and stable existence.
Damage Prevention Guidelines: Excavation Procedures
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Learn risk mitigating excavation procedures for underground facilities.
Docking Inland River Barges at Terminals
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This guide provides information on how to mitigate risk at river terminals.
Waste and Linen Chute Protection
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The following tips can help keep your chute safe and reduce risk.
Discharge Readiness: Sound Protocols Help Reduce Outpatient Risk
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Ambulatory settings are expressly designed to expedite care and their financial success depends upon maintaining a steady pace of work and high patient volume. During the COVID-19 pandemic providers at outpatient facilities may feel pressure to relax their patient discharge-related protocols.
Aging Services Claim Report: 11th Edition
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The Aging Services Claim Report includes data analysis, key findings and claim scenarios to help raise awareness of potential risk factors, as well as practical risk management considerations to help mitigate sources of potential liability.
AlertBulletin: Antibiotic Overuse Stewardship Program
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This AlertBulletin offers strategies designed to prevent antibiotic overuse training and a formal program to reduce risk.
Vegetation Management
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This guide provides valuable risk management recommendations to help ensure proper and safe use of vegetation management chemicals.
Resident Patient Handling: Creating Effective Safety Program
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This edition of AlertBulletin® examines the issue of manual lifting and handling techniques are a major source of risk for healthcare organizations.
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.
Short Service Employee
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An organization’s growth is an achievement in many ways, and companies should be aware of the potential risks to their operations and employees caused by growth.
Ergonomics Consulting Services
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Our team has the capabilities to serve as a resource for program development and provide collaborative consultation to develop effective solutions that address ergonomics risks.
This edition of Professional Counsel addresses referral and fee splitting agreements and the risks associated with them.
Water Damage Incident Response Guide
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Responding to water damage incidents is similar – every minute of delay increases the risk of property damage and an extended business disruption
Virtual Capabilities and Digital Solutions
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Maximizing flexibility and convenience for policyholders, our innovative virtual resources can help insureds save time and mitigate risk by identifying and addressing hidden exposures.
Photographic Wound Documentation: Ten Guidelines to Help Minimize Digital Imaging Exposures
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This AlertBulletin® is intended to help reduce risk for those organizations engaged in wound photography by standardizing their digital imaging practices.
Our third report on physical therapy risk exposures based on CNA/HPSO closed claims.
Physical Therapy Spotlight: Protecting Your License
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This Physical Therapy Spotlight focuses on our analysis and risk recommendations on Analysis of License Protection Matters with Defense expense Payment.
Adverse Event Review: Enhancing Analysis, Safeguarding Data
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This edition of AlertBulletin® highlights adverse event management as a pillar of risk management and quality improvement efforts.
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.
Wire Transfer Fraud: A Growing Threat to Law Firms
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Lawyers in any area of practice may fall victim to wire transfer fraud and must often serve as their own risk managers in managing their professional practices.
Equipment and Systems Outage
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Here are some tips to help your business reduce the risk of equipment problems at every stage: before an outage, during the outage and as you restore operations afterward.
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.
CNA CyberPrep Brochure
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CNA CyberPrep is available to all CNA cyber policyholders, providing them with a network of cybersecurity professionals and services to actively identify, mitigate and respond to their cyber risks.
Electrical Surge Protection
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This bulletin outlines the risks associated with electrical surge protective devices and how to help provide your facility with maximum protection against equipment damage resulting from electrical surges.
National Accounts Brochure
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At CNA, our national Accounts team reviews each large business' specific needs and develops customized risk management and insurance solutions with meaningful capacity across Property, Casualty and Financial Lines of business.
Epack 3 - Crime
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Our Epack 3 (EP3) policy was designed to provide clear solutions for complex management liability risks, with compartmentalized coverage options that work together and don't overlap.
Motion is Money® Construction
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CNA’s Motion is Money® provides strategies and solutions to enhance your workers’ productivity and reduce risk factors. Motion is Money® uses a simple approach to identifying inefficient processes and improving them.
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.
This edition of Vantage Point presents a variety of strategies intended to help healthcare settings of every type improve clinical integration following consolidation.
To Avoid or Embrace? Navigating Third Party Legal Opinions
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This edition of Professional Counsel® discusses different practices and tools lawyers should consider when offering legal opinions for third parties to help mitigate potential risk.
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.
This edition of AlertBulletin® examines causes and effects of social inflation, how insurance can be affected, and offers several risk mitigation strategies to minimize exposure to social inflation.
You Missed a Deadline??? How to Avoid That Nightmare
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This edition of In Practice...with CNA, discusses the substantial risks that exist for law firms that fail to diligently monitor case dockets, read court orders and adhere to filing deadlines.
Telemedicine Update: Coordinating Remote and In-person Care
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This edition of Vantage Point® discusses how telemedicine misuse can be mitigated by implementing policies to address the risks posed by remote care, as well as modifying their procedures to better coordinate virtual and in-person modes of care.