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Cal/OSHA has proposed its long-awaited indoor heat illness prevention standard as increasingly hot summers are affecting workers in indoor spaces like warehouses, production operations, print shops and more. The proposed standard, largely based on the state agency’s outdoor regulations, will require employers whose workplaces at times are at least 82 degrees to have a written
Every year, hundreds of workers in the United States die because they don’t follow lockout/tagout procedures or their employers did not have them in place – or, if they did, failed to enforce their rules. A lockout tagout is a protection system against unintentional exposure to hazardous energy from equipment and machinery. You want a program
The commercial property insurance market continues hardening, with average rates up 9.3% in the first quarter of 2023, according to MarketScout. Rates for business properties have been climbing steadily for the last six years, but those increases have grown at a faster clip since the COVID-19 pandemic crippled global supply chains and disrupted economies around
QR codes — short for Quick Response codes — are everywhere these days, on the tables at restaurants, on posters, print and electronic advertising, and even during TV programming and commercials. By training your smartphone camera on one, you’ll get a prompt to click to open a web page, typically one for the company behind
If you had to close your doors or stop taking orders for two weeks or two months, what would happen? Would you be able to recover? Would you be able to meet your payroll? Would you be able to keep up with tax, insurance, lease, rental and mortgage payments for that long? Or would you
The average cost for employers of a court case brought under the California Private Attorneys General Act was $1.1 million in 2021, according to the CABRIA Foundation. But the insurance policies that business owners would expect to cover legal costs, settlements, and judgments for these claims may not provide much coverage. PAGA allows an aggrieved
Whether you are creating or printing posters, publications, flyers, advertisements, or a website, your graphic design agency or print shop helps your clients build their businesses. But like other businesses providing professional services, visual media business operations face unique risks that other firms don’t. And if you do not have proper insurance in place to
A new study has found that insurance is often a blind spot for small business owners, with the vast majority of them uncertain if they are “adequately insured” and what risks their policies actually cover. According to the survey by online insurance site Next, 90% of the 500 small business owners polled said they are
As unpredictable weather like the pummeling rains that hit the West Coast in early 2023 grow across the country, businesses that are not properly insured could be left paying for damage to their properties out of pocket. With flooding events increasing, it’s noteworthy that many companies located in or near flood zones do not carry
At the start of every year, it’s important that businesses take stock of developments in the 12 months prior that may require adjustments to their insurance policies. A number of events, such as purchasing new equipment or expanding to new territories, should prompt you to meet with us to see if you should increase your
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