The 2012 hurricane season is fast approaching. So what’s in store for the season and how might it impact your business? Join us June 5th as Dr. Phil Klotzbach from Colorado State University's Department of Atmospheric Science shares his latest forecast released just days prior to this webcast. Dr. Klotzbach will explain the probabilities of tropical storms and hurricanes making landfall in the U.S. during the 2012 hurricane season. This is a free web clinic to help you prepare for the upcoming hurricane season.
Multifamily buildings – better known as apartment buildings or apartment complexes – need constant attention and maintenance supervision. In the aftermath of disaster, restoring your rental properties to working condition can be an impossibly complex task involving a multitude of logistical and environmental challenges.
With 16 offices strategically located across the country and offering a full spectrum of both
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Grants and other forms of relief from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), along with payouts from insurance policies, offer most disaster victims their main means of assistance. Understanding the nature of both kinds of payout is essential to any reconstruction effort.
In purely human terms, the loss, devastation, and damage caused by natural disasters is immeasurable. Calculating the financial toll of earthquakes, hurricanes, and other catastrophes, however, provides a practical means of judging the impact of such events.
Changes have occurred in the general office workplace as a result of the new office technology. As with all new technology, these changes bring with it a set of health and safety concerns such as stress-related symptoms and musculoskeletal strains. For example, long hours at a poorly designed computer workstation can cause pains in the neck and back, shoulders, lower extremities, arms, wrists, hands, eyestrain, and a general feeling of tension and irritability.
Did you know that if your home or business happened to be damaged or destroyed by a natural disaster, you might be able to recover a portion of your loss from Uncle Sam? That’s right, the IRS wants to ease the burden and unreimbursed casualty losses are actually tax deductible. This simple fact could end up covering the amount of the loss that insurance unfortunately did not.
--By Summer Signer
In the event of an unforeseen disaster, do you have the resources in place to keep your employees safe while resuming business in a reasonable amount of time?
“It is estimated that 90 percent of medium to large companies that can’t resume near-normal operations within 5 days of an emergency will go out of business.” – Neal Rawls, security columnist “Avoiding Disaster” by John Laye, 2002
Water damage from leaking and burst pipes can cost your business thousands in electrical and structural damage. Repairing and replacing burst pipes can necessitate tearing up walls and landscaping, as well as replacing hundreds of dollars in damaged merchandise and office equipment.
I normally love to sit down and contemplate the next topic for my blog. I’m actually doing a little bit of what good safety professionals do, “NOT RE-INVENT THE WHEEL”. I was exploring some of my favorite safety sites and was directed to an article that really captured my attention. I have included the bulk of the article below (which they allow you to do on www.Distraction.gov) because of the exposer to everyone who takes time out in their very busy day to read my blog. If you have teens, or have caught yourself in this predicament, think about the facts included.
