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Food Hazards When Receiving, Storing, Rotating and Labeling
To customers, it may seem like food magically appears on grocery store shelves, but grocery store workers know better. Behind the scenes, people are constantly at work: receiving shipments, stocking...
How Timely Incident Reporting Helps Your Store
If someone has ever fallen in your store but didn’t appear to be seriously injured or in need of medical care, you may have wondered if you should report the incident to RiskPoint. Absolutely. The...
RiskPoint Insurance Advisors Included in the Big “I” and Reagan Consulting 2022 Best Practices Study
RiskPoint Insurance Advisors has been selected for the 7th year to be part of an elite group of independent insurance agencies around the United States participating in the Independent Insurance...
Training Your Team to Sell Alcohol Safely
Alcohol sales are big business. They can also be a big risk. To avoid fines, license suspension and other penalties, grocery stores need to train their teams how to sell alcohol safely. Underage...
Real Estate Discrimination Claims: Mistakes and Missteps Could Lead to Lawsuits
Discriminatory practices are under the microscope. Real estate professionals need to navigate a number of anti-discrimination laws, and any missteps can lead to accusations of prejudice, along with...
Grocery Delivery Risk Management
The rise of delivery is changing the way grocers operate. Although this trend is creating benefits for both grocery operators and their customers, it’s also bringing a new host of risks. If grocers...
Liability in Active Shooter Scenarios
When an active shooting incident occurs, who is to blame? The shooter, obviously. But what about the business where the active shooting takes place? In some cases, businesses may be held liable for...
Grocery Safety: Preparing Your Team for Workplace Violence
When you think about grocery safety, you might focus on things like proper food handling and slip and fall prevention. These are key issues, certainly, but they’re not the only risks that grocery...
Summer Hiring: Keeping Teens Safe on the Job
For many teens, summer is the perfect time to earn some money. Youth workers can provide valuable contributions, but their lack of experience can also make them vulnerable to injuries. Make sure...
Unbundling With Care: Why An Unbundled Health Plan Can Offer Maximum Flexibility With Lower Costs
“Bundled” Plan vs. “Unbundled” Plan All health plans utilize the same underlying principles to build out the functions needed to protect you financially and provide your employees access to...
Rising Commercial Property Rates – How Grocers Can Prepare for Renewal
Since the pandemic began, grocery stores have been challenged to keep up with consumer demand while managing worker and inventory shortages. Now, there’s another challenge: rising property insurance...
Winter Slip Trip and Fall Prevention – How to Keep Employees & Customers Safe
Wintertime often presents hazardous weather conditions around the country. When weather conditions are bad, accidents such as slips, trips and falls are a common occurrence. Subsequently, an...
Cyber Safety Tips for Grocers
Could a cyberattack shut down your grocery store? As cyberattacks rise, no industry is safe. Modern grocers need to be aware of the risks. Here are some cyber safety tips to help keep your business...
Tips for Backroom Housekeeping and Safety
A disorganized backroom might be an even bigger problem than you realize. First, there are the obvious issues associated with not being able to find the items you need and losing track of your...
Machine and Equipment Guarding
Your business depends on machines. The safety of your employees depends on the proper guarding of those machines. OSHA says that workers who operate and maintain machinery experience approximately...
Parking Lot Safety
Even if you take safety seriously, you might not spend a lot of time thinking about your parking lot. That could be a mistake. Parking lots contain numerous hazards. If a customer is injured because...
Avoid Incidents with Safe Lifting Practices
Every time your workers lift a heavy item, they risk injuring themselves. Safe lifting practices can reduce the risk of injury and prevent expensive claims. A Leading Cause of Workplace Injuries...
What to Expect with Your Cyber Insurance Renewals
As you have probably heard, the cyber market is continuing to harden as we move further into 2021. In the first quarter, various industry sources reported rates went up between 18% and 25%, while...
Risk Control Requires Prompt Incident Reporting
Imagine that a customer slips and falls in your store. The customer doesn’t seem badly injured. You ask if they need anything, they say they think they’re OK, and they leave. You’re relieved that it...
RISKPOINT INSURANCE ADVISORS INCLUDED IN THE BIG “I” 2021 BEST PRACTICES STUDY
RiskPoint Insurance Advisors continues for the 6th year to be part of an elite group of independent insurance agencies around the United States participating in the Independent Insurance Agents...
Knife and Meat Slicer Safety in Grocery Stores
The Bureau of Labor Statistics says that there were 4.1 cases of injury or illness per 100 full-time workers at food and beverage stores in 2019. There were also 54 fatalities, up from 42 fatalities...
Preventing Injuries with Lockout and Tagout Procedures
A 17-year-old bagger employed at his family's grocery store was asked for ground beef by a customer. None was available, so he decided to operate the grinder, despite the fact that workers under the...
Are Your Stocking Procedures A Slip Trip And Fall Hazard?
Running a retail store requires juggling multiple responsibilities, and ensuring the safety of your employees and customers is one of the most important. It only takes a split second for a customer...
10 Ways To Deter Shoplifting At Your Retail Store
Shoplifting is one of the oldest problems we face as a society. According to Wikipedia, stealing more than five shillings worth of goods was a crime punishable by death under the Shoplifting Act of...
Legal Issues When Selling a Home with Tenants
Although selling a home is an everyday occurrence, it can involve several complicated steps. Add tenants into the mix, however, and it becomes a tall order. Aside from their emotional needs and the...
Don’t Let Winter Safety Hazards Spoil Your Grocery Business
Like any other business, the grocery business has its own unique safety hazards. From slips, trips, and falls to food poisoning to cuts and bruises, there are numerous ways customers and employees...
Risk Management for Real Estate Firms: How to Comply with the Fair Housing Act
Could you be accused of discrimination? The Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination against people engaging in housing-related activities, including renting or buying a home. In addition to the...
Safe Food Handling in Grocery Stores
Food poisoning can ruin any meal. It can also ruin your store’s reputation. Risks can arise during every process, from receiving food from vendors to selling it to customers. Deli cases also can be...
Real Estate Professional Liability Exposures: Selling a Home with Leased Equipment
Home improvement projects typically add value to a home, but this isn’t always the case. Some additions may adversely affect the sales price. This is especially true when leased equipment is...
Off-Premises Power Failure: A Costly (and Dark) Grocery Store Exposure
Grocery store owners may assume that their commercial property insurance will provide coverage in the case of major food spoilage after a power outage. However, this is not necessarily true. Many...
Real Estate Professional Liability: Should You Share Flood Risk Assessments?
When it comes to flood risk, what homeowners don’t know can absolutely hurt them. A single flooding event can cause significant damage, but many homeowners don’t understand the risks. New flood maps...
Sued for Slip and Fall Liability? Meticulous Sweep Logs May Help
What happens if there are coffee beans spilled in your aisle and a customer slips and falls and sues you for negligence? Are you guilty if you didn’t know the coffee beans were there? Unfortunately,...
Real Estate Cyber Risk: A Growing Threat
Real estate firms are going digital – and taking on new risks. Online communication, virtual showings and other digital tools have created new opportunities, added convenience and enabled work to...
Prevent Slips, Trips and Falls in Your Grocery Store
Slip, trip and fall incidents are a common cause of injury, and grocery stores have many hazards that can contribute to these accidents. Both customers and employees are at risk. Slip, trip and fall...
Floral Department Safety Tips
A bouquet of flowers can brighten any day, but floral displays can also introduce dangerous hazards if proper care isn’t taken. Both slip-and-fall and trip-and-fall incidents can occur as a result...
Grocery Stores, Work Comp and COVID-19: What Your Store Leaders Need to Know
We’re living in a world none of us could have imagined just a few short months ago. For your grocery store employees working on the front lines, it’s been especially stressful. They can’t work from...
Professional Liability Exposures for Real Estate Brokers
As a real estate broker, you have big responsibilities and when things go wrong, the consequences can be significant. To avoid professional liability claims, beware of these common exposures. Breach...
Real Estate Industry Risk Management: Tips to Manage COVID-19 Exposures
COVID-19 may be a threat for the foreseeable future. As a result, we must find ways to adapt to this new normal. For real estate brokerage firms, this means taking steps to protect brokers and...
How Does Cyber Liability Insurance Work?
Like many businesses, your firm uses computers, a network, and portable devices to send, receive or store electronic data. Such data includes client communication, billing, confidential personal and...
Cyber Liability, Crime & Advertising Injury – What does it mean?
Recently there have been a lot of questions surrounding Cyber coverage and confusion about three areas of insurance coverage and exposures: Crime, Cyber Liability and Personal/Advertising Liability....
