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RiskControl360° Provides Guidance to ORA Members on Health & Safety Matters

Through this relationship, members receive timely, safety-oriented education designed with their operations in mind

RiskControl360° is an ORA partner and leader in assisting businesses with achieving a greater competitive advantage by reducing insurance-related costs and improving performance. The company helps customers identify, assess and mitigate risk exposure and improve business processes. These initiatives result in reduced costs, improved productivity and enhanced overall business performance.

RiskControl360° helps your business operate more effciently through a comprehensive culture, compliance and cost evaluation, assessing your overall approach to risk management and other business conditions that can negatively impact risk management.

RiskControl360° specializes in the following services:

• Drug-Free Workplace and Drug-Free EZ Programs

• Accident Investigation and Prevention Techniques

• Consultation Services on a Wide-range of Safety Topics

• Environmental Counseling

• OSHA 10-hour and 30-hour courses for General Industry and Construction.

• Outsourced Safety and Risk Managers

• Human Resources Management

• Bureau of Workers’ Compensation Discount Programs: Safety Council, the 10-Step Business Plan implementation and Support, Drug-Free Workplace Program, Deductible Program Support and 2-Hour Safety Trainings

In addition, RiskControl360° has developed a line of affordable, online risk management tools that are proven to save time and money. RiskControl OnDemand is the leading web-based interactive health and safety management system which provides you with the following tools for time and cost saving:

• Customizable written safety programs, policies and procedures.

• Online OSHA safety training

• Customizable safety PowerPoint training presentations

• Safety meeting guides and “tool box” talks

• Customizable safety audits and checklists

• Accident and injury recordkeeping online

• Document management and storage

• Access to OSHA regulations

This inexpensive tool can save you and your organization money, time and resources. For additional information, visit the RiskControl360° website, www.riskcontrol360.com, or call 877-360-3608 for a free demonstration.

By Implementing a Structured Safety Management Process, You Can Safeguard Your Business

Improve the safety of your workplace by making health and safety concerns everyone’s responsibility

Safe and effcient operations invariably go hand-in-hand; both are products of good management. They result from the active participation of both management and employees to recognize and fulfll their responsibilities.

Improved safety and health procedures beneft both management and labor. Everyone is better off when the job is less physically demanding and stressful, when there is a lesser chance that operational errors will occur, and when workers are better trained. Taking these and other steps associated with a safe, healthful workplace will increase effciency and quality while ensuring that employees perform their jobs at the optimum level.

No restaurant can expect to have good safety performance unless its owner or general manager demonstrates through personal conduct and concrete actions that all employees are expected and required to fulfll their safety and health responsibilities. The experienced manager knows that occupational safety and health are good business.

It is good business to establish and maintain policies, procedures and practices that communicate to every member of the organization that safety and health are a primary responsibility.

Safety & Health Process Defnes Organizational Performance

“Safety and health process,” the term used to describe the whole of safety and health activities, is a combination of many separate acts and responsibilities. Organized leadership and proper application of each element of the overall program are essential to the attainment of good safety and health performance. This performance pays off for the employer – improves production, increases employee effciency, enhances employee morale, lowers workers’ compensation costs and keeps employees on the job.

Every business organization is confronted with a multitude of problems that require immediate handling. In the presence of such daily “emergency” problems, it is tempting to defer or overlook safety and health activities. This leads to accidents. Whenever feasible, and to avoid confusion, rules should state what is to be done, rather than what is prohibited.