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Ergonomics for Manual Material Handling
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Strategies to help improve common workplace material handling tasks.
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
Heating System Pre-Season Maintenance and Inspection
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In order to have a safe and reliable heating system, pre-season maintenance and inspection should be completed every year by trained and licensed professionals.
Understanding Your EMR
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If your company carries Workers Compensation insurance and meets the minimum premium threshold to be eligible in your state you will have an EMR. This guide will clear up some misconceptions about EMR and provide helpful examples to illustrate how it is calculated.
Hospitality Industry Ergonomics Guide
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This guide will help you to address challenges in the hospitality industry and create a work environment that prevents injuries, prioritizes employee well-being and enhances productivity.
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.
Hailstorms: Protecting People and Property
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Review this guide to learn how to prepare for hailstorms.
Ambulatory Surgery Centers: Enhancing Continuity of Care
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This edition of inBrief® offers a checklist designed to help ASCs achieve safe, seamless transitions in care by focusing on such key areas as staffing, training and communication.
Water Damage Technology Solutions
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Here are ways you can leverage technology to minimize the impact and maximize the effectiveness of your water damage mitigation programs.
Business Resilience for Wildfire Events
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The two main aspects of a building’s ability to resist wildfire damage are the details of the construction and the characteristics of the defensible space, a cleared area surrounding the building.
This edition of Carefully Speaking® offers recommendations that are intended to help aging services organizations evaluate and upgrade their degree pf security preparedness.
Paratransit Loading and Unloading
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Every driver needs to know if their responsibilities include curb-to-curb door-to-door and door-through-door service and how each impacts loading and unloading.
Hired and Non-Owned Auto Exposures
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An employee using their personal vehicle or hired (rental) vehicle to conduct business activities for their employer under the approval and/or knowledge of the employer constitutes H/NOA exposure.
Subcontractor Prequalification Guide
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When developing a prequalification form or application the hiring contractor should consider the following.
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.
2022 Strategic Business Resilience Report
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Strategic Business Resilience Report: Position your organization to endure and thrive through adverse business conditions.
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.
Hot Work
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The purpose of a hot work program is to ensure appropriate safeguards are in place to prevent a fire from non-routine work involving open flames, sparks or heat.
Fighting the Trojan Horse
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If there is one thing keeping law firm general counsel awake at night it is the myriad of outside counsel guidelines (OCGs) that may be floating around the firm.
Re-entering the Workplace after a Shutdown: Guide for Employers
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This guide will help identify some key activities employers should consider for a safer return to work.
Physicians Allied Healthcare Facilities Sell Sheet
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Our understanding of healthcare, terminology and practices – and our expertise in litigating these claims – helps us work with policyholders to develop effective strategies for resolving claims.
Mergers and Acquisitions: Five Strategies to Achieve Integration
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This edition of Vantage Point® offers five basic strategies to prevent and mitigate common hazards on the road to organizational consolidation.
How Allied Vendors Help Streamline Firm Operations
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This edition of Professional Counsel addresses CNA's Lawyers Allied Vendor Program which offers solutions to help law firms navigate some of the challenges of managing a law firm as both a client service and a business.
Low Voltage Busway Systems
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The focus of this bulletin is the discussion/identification of failure mechanisms common to busway and the periodic maintenance and testing that will either prevent or minimize the possibility of electrical faulting of electrical busway.
Chains & Binders
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Safe and effective load securement starts with thorough pre-trip planning. Before you begin to secure your load ensure that your chains and binders are in good working condition and they meet the requirements for the load you plan to transport.
Load Securement - Synthetic Webbing
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Not everything can be secured with chains. Sometimes synthetic web tie downs are the most feasible solution. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSR) recognizes synthetic tie downs for load securement when these guidelines are followed.
This edition of Professional Counsel addresses where nontraditional legal malpractice exposures exist so attorneys may take steps to avoid the unexpected exposures.
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.
Fall Prevention Guide
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Take steps to reduce fall exposures and associated costs.
Business Resiliency Self-Assessment
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Complete this assessment and consider the corrective actions to improve your business resiliency.
New Employee Orientation
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Organizations are continuously hiring new employees. This series of brief virtual learning SORCE modules (under 15 minutes each) provides new employees with basic safety and hazard awareness in the workplace.
Snow Loading and Roof Collapse Preparation
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As winter approaches, businesses often neglect to plan for roof collapses, one of most serious winter threats. Even a partial roof collapse can deliver devastating property damage, business interruption and possibly loss of life.
What Lawyers Need to Know About New Reporting Required Under the Corporate Transparency Act
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This edition of In Practice...with CNA identifies new reporting requirements enacted by the Corporate Transparency Act and the associated ethical considerations.
Portable Ladder Safety
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Download this guide to learn the basic safety rules of using Portable Ladders.
Water Heater Maintenance and Service
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This bulletin looks at the few items that given the attention they deserve will decrease the cost of ownership by increasing the life of the heater and doing so in a safe and reliable manner.
Best Practices for Law Firms During a Pandemic
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Law firms can limit their exposure to professional liability and other claims by identifying and responding to key issues that may arise during the COVID-19 crisis.
Law Firm Website Woes
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Few if any readers would contemplate the creation of an attorney-client relationship by reading a publication in print via email or on a website. When should attorneys take the proactive step of disclaiming the formation of an attorney-client relationship?
Product Recall Planning
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The following recall plan guidance can prepare your organization to act quickly in the event of a product recall.
This edition of Professional Counsel emphasizes how attorneys must be aware of how the use of ChatGPT would impact their practice, client matters and ethical concerns that may lead to allegations of legal malpractice.
Air Conditioning Start up Maintenance Tips
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Property Maintenance of HVAC systems can ensure lower electrical consumption reduce repair costs and increase life span for air conditioning equipment.
Reopening the Workplace: Employment Law Considerations
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While employers must consider safety and health issues as they create policies and protocols to enable workers to return to the physical workplace, they must also be mindful to avoid the many employment law pitfalls that exist
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.
Sun Exposures for Contractors
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It is important to take steps to stay cool and protect yourself and employees from overexposure.
Product and Service Selection
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As you explore new options for products and services, there are things to consider to help you identify potential exposures
Advanced Practice Providers: Policy Protocol and Contract Issues
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This edition of inBrief is designed to encourage and facilitate focused review of organizational policies clinical protocols and contractual provisions to ensure they address patient safety concerns and liability exposures associated with the expanding functions of NPs and PAs.
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.
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.
Pharmacist Liability Claim Report: 2nd Edition
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In collaboration with our partners at Healthcare Providers Service Organization (HPSO) we at CNA insure more than 80000 pharmacists in a wide variety of pharmacy settings. We are pleased to present our second pharmacist closed claims report.
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.
Trench Inspection Checklist
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Use this checklist to ensure trenches are properly inspected prior to the start of work.