75% of companies without business continuity plans fail within three years after facing a disaster.

- Business Continuity Institute

How can you help prepare your company to not only respond to a disaster, but to remain in business once the dust settles?

We're in the risk management and workforce business, including helping clients with their employee benefit plans. You can probably imagine that over the past 5 years, since President Obama's signature piece of legislation – the Affordable Care Act – became a reality, I often get asked my thoughts or even to speak to groups on Obamacare.

Power tools can seem like a common part of our lives – so we often overlook the hazards they can pose. But these tools can cause serious injuries when they are not maintained or used properly.

Many of the issues stem from misuse of the tools. Whether it is from lack of proper training or perhaps the development of unsafe habits – it is a problem needing attention.

When we analyze workplace accidents we often discuss two things: their frequency and their severity. And though the severe accidents will be the most costly, the frequent accidents often give us the most concern. They are like the ticking of a time bomb. The more accidents you have, the more likely it is that one of them will be severe.

Today we’re sharing insight from guest blogger Blake Cavignac, President of Intellectual Innovations and Founder of YoungPro Elite. We hope you enjoy Blake’s wisdom and perspective.

As the number of millennials entering the workforce continues to increase each year, we are hearing more and more CEOs and executives in the older generations (Baby Boomers and Gen Xers) make the generalizations that millennials are:

“Human beings are social creatures. We are social not just in the trivial sense that we like company, and not just in the obvious sense that we each depend on others. We are social in a more elemental way: simply to exist as a normal human being requires interaction with other people.” - Atul Gawande, bestselling author, surgeon, and public health researcher

Whether you are a nonprofit hosting numerous events a year or a business planning a one-time function, it is important to understand the risks associated with special events. From a small open house to a large scale festival, special events can expose your organization to added risks.

Today we’re sharing insight from guest blogger Hugh Reynolds, Managing Partner at Crowe Horwath LLP. We hope you enjoy Hugh’s wisdom and perspective.

When disaster strikes, the story will happen with or without you. Don’t let it happen without you. Make a comprehensive plan for handling communications before, during, and after a crisis.

The term workplace violence often evokes tragic images of shootings and death. But the problem is much broader than that. Workplace violence includes threats, physical assaults, and aggravated assaults. Even bullying, given its correlation to violence, can be considered a type of violence. And all of it, when allowed to persist in the workplace, invites low morale, low productivity, and even worse violence to disrupt a business’s operations.