Workplace Safety - Loss Control - Great American Insurance Group

Help Ensure Proper Computer Data and Records Fire Protection

Due to the nature of computers and paper files, using a standard water sprinkler system may not be a feasible method to protecting your organizations data.

Safely Use Pressurized Gas Cylinders

Gas cylinders present a unique risk for organizations. When gas leaks from cylinders, it is often impossible to see or hear.

Use Safety Committees to Help Reduce Losses and Costs

Safety committees can play an effective role in any organizational risk management effort.

Help Detect and Prevent Burglary

As technology improves, the ability for burglars to infiltrate buildings is becoming more advanced and harder to detect.

Stay Safe While Cooking

Commercial cooking can pose significant risks, which can cause fires that could burn entire buildings.

Help Your Community Stay Protected With a Storm Response Plan

Use this document to assist your community association in developing a plan to mitigate the damage caused by storms as well as to protect people and property.

Help Your Organization Assess Its Security

This assessment is a tool that can help your institution identify areas of strength in your overall security and areas that may need some improvement.

Understand the Risk of Aquatic Inflatables

Take corrective action right away to help keep patrons safe. Begin by modifying the play area including commercial water inflatables and making improvements to current lifeguarding towers and protocols in place.

Help Employees Stay Safe With a Drug-Free Workplace Program

Every employee should receive a copy of the company-wide substance abuse policy and sign a consent form to test. Retain the form in the employee’s personnel file. At least a 30-day notice should be given to employees prior to adopting drug testing.

Help Control Noise in Your Workplace

As industrial and infrastructure needs increase, employees will be expected to work around more heavy machinery and construction zones in large cities, which will result in higher noise pollution. Employers should review the ‘Hierarchy of Controls’ established by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to reduce employees' exposure to harmful noise.

Stay Safe on the Roads This Winter

During the winter months, your vehicle should be routinely inspected due to the dangerous driving conditions, and you should be sure to follow all state and local weather warnings when in effect.

Help Prevent Vehicle Theft in Your Organization

Many organizations rely on vehicles each day to carry out their operations. Unfortunately, vehicle theft and vandalism have become increasingly common.

Help Your School Bus Passengers Stay Safe

As a school bus driver, you should make sure that students behave well to avoid becoming distracted while driving.

Stay Safe While Performing Welding, Cutting and Other Hot Work

Hot work, such as welding, cutting, brazing and/or grinding can present a significant opportunity for fire and/or injury. The purpose of this guide is to help ensure a safe and healthy environment exists whenever hot work is conducted.

Help Your Organization Prevent Cyberbullying

Bullying and harassment can be traumatic for people of all ages. In recent years, cyberbullying has become especially concerning. Cyberbullying can be defined in two different manners

Is Deploying a Body-Worn Camera Program a Good Decision?

Perhaps the question to ask is not whether the rapid development has positive benefits, but rather if the use of a specific type of technology is a good fit for your agency?

Help Protect Your Community from Civil Unrest

Adequate planning and execution can help protect life and property during times of civil unrest.

Help Protect Your Organization With a Risk Management System

Ask anyone in your organization and likely everyone would tell you that they did not show up to have an accident. So, if no one wants to have an accident, why do they still happen?

Safe Drone Use for Public Safety and Government Agencies

As a law enforcement and public safety professional, you should consider the following information and resources to help understand drone safety practices and regulations.

Why You Should Be Listening To Your Safety Manager

If your organizational safety manager is not actively involved, then you are missing out on a great opportunity to help protect your assets and control your insurance expenses.

Hiring and Onboarding

Your talent is the heartbeat of your organization and selecting the very best talent is critical to protecting your mission daily. Finding quality staff and volunteers is difficult, but not impossible. Use this Hiring and Onboarding document to help guide your decision making when it comes to selecting representatives for your organization.

Quarterly Fire Safety Equipment Checklist

Building alarm and suppression systems should be inspected by a certified third party on an annual basis. Use this form to record the inspection of the building’s fire protection equipment.

Selecting and Qualifying Professional Drivers

All companies are responsible for hiring competent and qualified employees. If a company has no formal hiring policy, the legal theory of negligent entrustment suggests that the company could be exposed to serious liability for acts of its employees.

Negligent Entrustment: What It Is and Why You Should Be Concerned

All companies are responsible for hiring competent and qualified employees. If a company has no formal hiring policy, the legal theory of negligent entrustment suggests that the company could be exposed to serious liability for acts of its employees.

Understanding Federal Regulations: Is Your Vehicle Regulated and What Does That Mean?

Based on the characteristics of your organizational vehicles and their use, your organization may be subject to regulations at both the state and federal levels.

Safety Inspection Checklist

When inspecting a property, there are several factors that risk managers and facilities employees should consider. Review this Safety Inspection Checklist to help ensure that risk factors have been thoroughly considered, and that your people and property are protected.

Protect Your Business with a Violence Prevention Program

Different types of violence can occur in many workplaces. To help prevent workplace violence, management must provide visible support for a violence prevention program and communicate that there is zero tolerance for violence.

Stay Safe When Using Portable Heaters

When using a portable heater, carefully follow these guidelines to help prevent a fire.

Understanding the Risks of 15-Passenger Vans

Make roadways safer by practicing these measures while operating a 15-passenger van.

Supervising Workplace Accident Investigations

When an accident occurs in your department, it is an indication that something has gone wrong. Accidents don’t just happen, they are caused.

Ergonomic Control Measures - Hand Tool Operation

Each year, hand tools are a significant source of compensable injuries in the workplace. Many of these injuries can be prevented through the use of proper technique and equipment.

Operational Change Management Checklist

Resiliency and adaptability are necessities in today’s quickly evolving world.

Automatic Sprinkler & Life Safety Plan Reviews

Great American’s Loss Control team offers Automatic Sprinkler & Life Safety Plan Reviews as part of its service offerings to agents appointed with Great American, as well as policyholders.

Workstation Ergonomics

Anyone who spends much of their time sitting at a computer can feel better and work smarter by following the guidelines of a structured Ergonomic Program.

Ergonomic Control Measures - Standing Work

To reduce physical stress from prolonged standing on the job, ergonomic control measures should be implemented.

Providing a Safe Work From Home Environment

Safety concerns from an office in the home can be addressed through adjustments to lighting, equipment and procedures.

Ergonomic Control Measures - Seated Work

The principle advantage of sitting over standing while at a task is the reduced static loading on postural muscles.

Manage your Risk with Certificates of Insurance

Your business may be at risk of loss as the result of the actions of contractors, subcontractors, vendors, or manufacturers with whom you conduct business.

Winterize Your Buildings

To prepare for winter weather, property owners should take the precautionary steps and procedures necessary to protect their property.

5 Tips to Prevent Porch, Deck and Balcony Collapse

If you own or lease a commercial property that has a porch, deck or balcony, there are certain precautions you can take to avoid a tragic accident.

Prepare to Care for Campers

Camp is often the highlight of the year for kids of all ages. But injuries and illnesses that can occur while there can dampen their spirits in a heartbeat.

Distracted Driving Kills

Distracted driving accidents are on the rise. While overall vehicle accidents are decreasing, 20% of all injury crashes are related to distracted driving.

Hurricane Cleanup and Recovery

Avoiding Dangers Associated with Cleanup and Recovery from Hurricanes is accomplished by adhering to appropriate safety measures.

Get Familiar with Electric Shock Drowning

Here are some tips to reduce the risk of electric shock drowning and common boat electrical hazards.

Active Shooter Events Continue to Rise – Are You Prepared?

In recent years, organizations have evolved their active shooting response from the popular “Run, Hide, Fight” to ALICE.

Don't Get Frozen

This winter, our loss prevention consultants have seen increased damage due to frozen pipes.

Detect Hot Spots Before They Burn

Nearly $400 million was lost in 2015 due to electrical malfunction fires. Electrical fires are one of the most costly type of fires in nonresidential buildings.

Help Your Organization Understand Heroin Addicts’ Potential Lifesaver

In 2019, nearly 50,000 people died from overdoses involving opioids. As opioid abuse increases, public health officials have pushed to make Naloxone more widely available.

Thwart Injuries and Property Damage this Winter by Taking Preventative Measures

As we take in the joys of the holiday season, don’t forget to also take a few steps to prevent potential disasters. Protect your employees, clients, volunteers and property this winter by taking precautionary measures to reduce the likelihood of damage caused by common winter hazards such as freezing pipes or icy parking lots.

ALICE - Security Action Plan

For too many years the standard response to a violent incident has been to lock down and wait for the authorities to arrive. This leaves people hiding in rooms with no other response. It is time to change our actions.

Mosquito Bite Prevention for Travelers

Mosquitoes spread many types of viruses and parasites that can cause diseases like chikungunya, dengue, Zika, and malaria. If you are traveling to an area where malaria is found, talk to your healthcare provider about malaria prevention medication that may be available.

Oily Rags Safety

Many materials are prone to spontaneous ignition such as linseed oil, oil-based paints and stains, varnishes and polyurethane, and paint thinners.

Portable Generator Safety

Portable generators can be not only a convenience but a necessity during a power outage. However, portable generators can also be dangerous if used incorrectly.

Tire Safety for Passenger Vehicles and Light Trucks

Protection against avoidable breakdowns and crashes, improved vehicle handling, better fuel economy, and increased tire life – these are just a few of the reasons to take five minutes every month to check a vehicle’s tires. Simply follow the procedures outlined below to check a vehicle’s tires.

Robot Safety

A robot is a mechanism, guided by automatic controls, which performs repetitive work such as moving portable tooling into position, moving workpieces from one location to another, and/or assembling one or more workpieces.

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