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Diagnostic Error: Common Causes, Effective Countermeasures
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To help facilities and providers prevent incidents related to diagnostic inaccuracies and minimize consequent liability, this issue of inBrief examines common sources of error and presents strategies designed to enhance diagnostic accuracy.
Emergency preparedness planning should be a core component of every healthcare setting's risk management program.
Electrical Preventive Maintenance and Inspection
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Electrical equipment is usually well designed and properly installed. However, the principal reason for electrical system breakdown is the failure to maintain the installation in its designed state.
Subcontractor Prequalification Guide
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When developing a prequalification form or application the hiring contractor should consider the following.
Fire Safety Strategies to Protect Clients and Reduce Exposure
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This issue of Home Care Briefing focuses on the types of fires that pose the greatest danger to seniors and offers practical protective measures for clients and family members.
CERTA - NRCA Certified Roofing Torch Applicator Program
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Since the implementation of the CERTA Program, CNA has helped roofing contractors save over $12 million in potential incurred claims.
Use this guide to help quantify your facilities’ freeze risk and to implement preventative measures to keep your key fire protection systems operating as intended during the cold weather months.
Resident Falls: A Collaborative Strategy for Risk Mitigation
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A summary of common fall-related allegations and preventive measures. An effective fall- and fracture-reduction program can help curb the rise in claim severity.
Legal Malpractice Defendants Gain New Defense
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For litigation attorneys settling with less than all parties is a tactical decision that they often have to make with their clients. In making this decision lawyers are wise to be competent in the relevant laws and applicable judicial opinions. At common law settling with one co-defendant...
Home Healthcare Hazards: Reducing Exposure
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This edition of Home Care Briefing examines the home healthcare hazards compromise client care and subject workers to more frequent and severe injuries as compared to other providers who work in more controlled healthcare settings.
Resilience Checklist for Approaching Hurricanes
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When a storm is forecasted to make landfall, consider the following actions to minimize impact to business operations before, during and after it has passed.
Driver Selection Guide
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The following guidelines can help implement, enhance and maintain your driver selection process.
Test Result Management: Toward a Systematic Reporting Process
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This edition of AlertBulletin® offers seven strategies to help healthcare facilities and providers enhance the efficiency of their laboratory test reporting and follow-up procedures, as well as a range of practical risk management strategies.
Driver Performance Solutions
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Driver behavior affects your commercial auto fleet's performance and your bottom line every trip every day. However not every business gives this critical safety topic the attention it deserves and that can lead to costly liability claims.
Emergency Preparedness: Crafting a Sound Disaster Response Plan
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As weather-related exposures increase emergency preparedness planning becomes an ever more significant aspect of the organization's overall risk management program.
Mergers and Acquisitions: Five Strategies to Achieve Integration
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This edition of Vantage Point® offers five basic strategies to prevent and mitigate common hazards on the road to organizational consolidation.
New York City Sidewalk Law
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If you own or lease space within a property in New York City, it is vital to understand where your responsibilities lie when it comes to sidewalk maintenance.
Medication Safety: Strategies for Reducing Ambulatory Risk
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Medication errors can ocurr in an ambulatory care setting with serious and sometimes fatal consequences.
CNA's Alert Bulletin discusses strategies for how organizations can transform their current rounding program into a powerful quality improvement and risk control tool.
Medication Drop Boxes: Crafting a Safe Drug Take-back Program
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This Alert Bulletin® offers guidelines designed to make drug take-back programs both safer and more efficient focusing on basic rules and policies pilferage and tampering prevention and complaint collection and disposal practices.
Test Result Management: Toward a Systematic Reporting Process
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Today's EHR systems can track pending test results alert providers to significant findings document receipt of results and follow-up actions taken and notify providers and others of possible delivery problems.
Ergonomics Solutions for the Construction Trades
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Injury risk is managed proactively when work is designed with considerations for efficiency and employee capabilities. This results in a larger percentage of the workforce performing work tasks safely.
Vegetation Management
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This guide provides valuable risk management recommendations to help ensure proper and safe use of vegetation management chemicals.
Active Shooter Response: Precautionary Measures Save Lives
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This edition of AlertBulletin® includes measures that can significantly enhance organizational response to a potentially panic-inducing situation.
Advance Conflict Waivers: Use Them or Lose Them?
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"In Practice... With CNA" explains that when relying on an advance waiver, practitioners should be cognizant of the speficity of such waivers, and would be prudent to re-evaluate their scope as conflict arises.
Water Damage: Prepare, Respond, Improve
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This checklist provides considerations business leaders can take before, during and after a water damage incident to improve business resilience
Occupational Vibration Exposure and Controls Guide
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By implementing these solutions, employers can effectively reduce workers’ exposure to vibration and mitigate the risks associated with HAVS and whole-body vibration.
Cybersecurity: Protect Patients by Preventing Data Breaches
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This inBrief explains how every healthcare facility must be vigilant in guarding against data breaches and system infiltrations, which can endanger both patient confidentiality and safety.
COVID-19 Returning to Work Prep Guide
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By taking time to prepare and plan for sound re-entry provisions, employers minimize chaos, foster trust in the workplace and fulfill their responsibility to safeguard employees.
Epack 3 - Private Company Directors & Officers Liability
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CNA’s Private Directors and Officers (D&O) Liability insurance is designed to protect the company and the people who lead it, addressing claims arising from their decisions and actions.
Resident Patient Handling: Creating Effective Safety Program
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This edition of AlertBulletin® examines the issue of manual lifting and handling techniques are a major source of risk for healthcare organizations.
Extreme Weather Events: Take Steps Now to Address a Growing Risk
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This edition of CNA's AllertBulletinAlertBulletin® explains as the earth's climate becomes less stable, weather-related disasters proliferate and consequent risk exposures increase for all types of healthcare facilities.
2023 Strategic Business Resilience Report
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CNA’s 2023 Strategic Business Resilience report was created to help leaders build a resilient culture and develop a sustained ability to endure disruptive events.
New York State Labor Law
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If you own or lease space within a property in New York City, it is vital to understand where your responsibilities lie when it comes to sidewalk maintenance.
Indoor Walkway Safety Audit Checklist
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This checklist may not include all conditions, as it is intended to be used only as a guide.
By continuously monitoring vital signs, motion patterns and environmental conditions, wearable devices provide early warning signals, facilitate emergency response and support post-incident analysis for preventive measures.
COVID-19 Vaccination Program Planning Resource
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This Special Resource serves as a reference for healthcare organizations seeking to evaluate risk exposures associated with COVID-19.
Collect with Caution
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The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act's constructive intent has resulted in unintended consequences that create exposures for attorneys who may not be conversant with its ramifications. This article focuses on the issues surrounding the Act that are most likely to affect attorneys.
Homeless Patients: Meeting the Needs of a Vulnerable Population
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According to a recent estimate about 600000 Americans are homeless on a nightly basis. This population suffers from a variety of disadvantages both medical and social. The unhoused are more susceptible than others to chronic disease mental illness and substance abuse.
Re-entering the Workplace after a Shutdown: Guide for Employers
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This guide will help identify some key activities employers should consider for a safer return to work.
Enhancing Floor Safety: Slip Resistance Maintenance & Risk
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Slips and falls can happen anywhere. Whether it's a visitor customer or your employee what matters most is that you implement a prevention program to increase safety and reduce liability exposures.
Business Resilience for Wildfire Events
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The two main aspects of a building’s ability to resist wildfire damage are the details of the construction and the characteristics of the defensible space, a cleared area surrounding the building.
Outdoor Walkway Safety Audit Checklist
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This checklist may not include all conditions, as it is intended to be used only as a guide.
This edition of CareFully Speaking® examines the two major components of the IMPACT Act: clinical assessment data collection parameters and standardized quality and resource use reporting measures.
Social Engineering Fraud Guide
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Although the pandemic has stopped many things, it has not stopped cybercriminals from exploiting the situation.
Understanding Your EMR
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If your company carries Workers Compensation insurance and meets the minimum premium threshold to be eligible in your state you will have an EMR. This guide will clear up some misconceptions about EMR and provide helpful examples to illustrate how it is calculated.
Reopening the Workplace: Employment Law Considerations
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While employers must consider safety and health issues as they create policies and protocols to enable workers to return to the physical workplace, they must also be mindful to avoid the many employment law pitfalls that exist
2022 Strategic Business Resilience Report
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Strategic Business Resilience Report: Position your organization to endure and thrive through adverse business conditions.
Even if an employer can mandate and provide COVID-19 vaccinations, the more important question may be whether an employer should do so.
Powered Industrial Trucks Operator Training Requirements
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Almost one million powered industrial trucks are operated in America by an estimated 1.5 million operators. Download this guide to learn about new operator training requirement regulations for powered industrial trucks.