Controlling risk through lockout / tagout procedures is critical when dealing with equipment powered by electricity steam hydraulics gas compressed air or a combination of sources. Download and learn about the mandated safety steps necessary during service and maintenance operations.

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.

This edition of Carefully Speaking^® outlines strategies leaders can use to assess their organization's memory care strengths, limits and liability exposures.

This edition of Carefully Speaking® outlines strategies leaders can use to assess their organization's memory care strengths, limits and liability exposures.

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.

This resource examines three major EMR-related issues and suggests countermeasures to protect patients and minimize liability exposures.

In this Professional Counsel^®, CNA has developed this guide to assist attorneys in creating documents that will enable them to better manage their interactions with potential and actual clients.

As we approach a second year of remote law practice this is a good time to pause and reflect on what works and what doesn't work. While we are becoming comfortable in this new normal the circumstances have raised a number of practical and ethical concerns for attorneys.

Walkway Management Group offers a nano-ceramic floor sealant designed to increase flooring lifespan, appearance, and anti-slip properties.

When you need a surety provider with capacity, experience and dedication to servicing a full range of bonding needs, we're ready.

This Special Resource serves as a reference for healthcare organizations seeking to evaluate risk exposures associated with COVID-19.

This Special Resource serves as a reference for healthcare organizations seeking to evaluate risk exposures associated with COVID-19.

This edition of Carefully Speaking ^®focuses on five trends - from artificial intelligence (AI) to higher resident acuity levels, to shifting care and reimbursement models - that are shaping the aging services industry of the future.

This edition of Home Care Briefing examines the elements of a prospective client screening and assessment procedure and offers a number of suggestions to help strengthen documentation in these areas.

The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act's constructive intent has resulted in unintended consequences that create exposures for attorneys who may not be conversant with its ramifications. This article focuses on the issues surrounding the Act that are most likely to affect attorneys.

Times arise particularly in litigation where a lawyer for an entity might find it useful to represent an employee or other constituent of the entity for some limited purpose. This dual representation of an entity and its constituent raises a number of practice issues.

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.

Carefully written and reviewed contracts can help prevent misunderstandings in business agreements strengthen partner-ships and enhance legal defensibility in the event of litigation.

Via third-party contracts many healthcare organizations outsource a wide range of clinical, technical and administrative functions.

Lawyers and law firms must manage an increasing amount of data both physical and digital over a vast array of evolving devices and media. Download CNA's PROfessional Counsel guide to learn more about how to implement a Records Management Plan (RMP).

This edition of AlertBulletin® focuses on the importance of establishing a setting-specific, appropriately scaled framework for crisis decision-making before disaster strikes.

This edition of AlertBulletin is designed to help healthcare leaders communicate in a clear accurate and timely manner during a crisis.

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.

The partnership between CNA and the Dentist’s Advantage program presents our second dental closed claim report to help dentists enhance their practice and minimize professional liability.

This edition of inBrief presents a self-assessment guide to help healthcare facilities evaluate their degree of readiness for negotiating recall situations.

The ongoing focus on recruitment and staff retention, as well as leadership and career development, will represent a paramount goal for aging services organizations.

Learn how to access policy document copies on CNA Central.

This edition of AlertBulletin® includes measures that can significantly enhance organizational response to a potentially panic-inducing situation.

"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.

This edition of AlertBulletin® highlights adverse event management as a pillar of risk management and quality improvement efforts.

Use this checklist during the hands-on performance portion of your training program to evaluate the operator proficiency. This form can be used periodically to re-evaluate and ensure forklifts are being operated properly.

The COVID-19 pandemic, the worst infectious disease outbreak in a century, has been an especially traumatic event for aging services organizations. The crisis seems to be receding, but its psychological effects linger.

The Aging Services 2018 Claim Report is designed to encourage change in this critical segment of the healthcare industry. The report focuses on fall- and pressure injury-related claims which despite risk-reduction efforts continue to be the two major sources of professional liability.

This edition of AlertBulletin suggests a variety of proactive measures designed to help organizations achieve a safe a smooth transition during a merger or closure.

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.

Lawyers should beware of a sophisticated new hacking scam the FBI refers to as Business E-mail Compromise. Lawyers in multiple states have recently reported being victimized by this scam.

This AlertBulletin offers strategies designed to prevent antibiotic overuse training and a formal program to reduce risk.

This issue examines 10 of the most common and potentially serious risks associated with the use of personal mobile devices in the healthcare setting and offers suggestions designed to mitigate these exposures.

This AlertBulletin offers strategies to help draft effective policies and procedures for medical chaperones.

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.

This edition of In Practice...with CNA® discusses why law firms need to be aware of the types of conflicts that most often lead to disqualification and the types of attorneys who may be affected.

This edition of In Practice...with CNA® discusses professional responsibility concerns that lawyers endure when sharing an office space and how to take necessary precautions when in this space.

This edition of AlertBulletin® offers strategies to help aging services operators differentiate and reinvent themselves.

This edition of inBrief suggests a range of risk management considerations and strategies relating to off-label use of FDA-approved products.

This edition of AlertBulletin is intended to help reduce risk by standardizing their wound photography practice.

This AlertBulletin^® is intended to help reduce risk for those organizations engaged in wound photography by standardizing their digital imaging practices.

Download this guide to learn the basic safety rules of using Portable Ladders.

The America Invents Act (AIA) alters numerous laws affecting IP protection for a broad range of applicants and affects almost the entire range of prosecution activities. The AIA was intended to modernize the patent system and promote innovation job creation and economic growth.

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.

Non-lawyers are now permitted to practice family law in Washington State as a result of a rule change approved by the Washington Supreme Court in 2012.