Tag: workers compensation
How to Recognize Signs of Employee Fraud
A comprehensive study of injuries and illnesses in retail several years ago surprised researchers at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)....
Understanding Data Analytics in Loss Prevention
The focus of our next benchmarking survey will be data analytics. In our survey of loss prevention practitioners, this topic was ranked second highest...
Risk Management and Loss Prevention: Partners for Profits
When comparing the risk management and loss prevention disciplines, it is important to recognize that the two functions share many common missions. They both manage...
Cashing In on Security
It is possible for cash to be an afterthought. Shoppers are using it less, and it doesn’t command attention like new mobile payment methods...
Buyer, Beware: 4 Warning Signs of a Bad Contract Security Arrangement
As the contract security guard industry has improved and become more professional, it has become tougher to assign all the blame to it when security partnerships go wrong.
Addressing the Growing Threat of Workplace Violence (APU)
Workplace violence incidents have tripled in the last decade, and it’s now the fastest-growing category of murder in the US. It’s also the second...
Beyond Shrinkage: Introducing Total Retail Loss
A major new report published by the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) puts forward a dramatically different way of thinking about the problem of...
Terrorism, Workplace Violence, and Insurance Implications
Several recent manmade disasters, including the attack at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, FL, and the Brussels airport terrorist bombing, highlight the vulnerability of the...
Marijuana’s Effects on Safety in the Workplace
160 million users globally—and growing. Marijuana continues its streak as the number-one federally defined illicit drug of choice among the American drug-using community. Considering the...
2016 RLPSA Conference: Day One
The mission of the 2016 Restaurant Loss Prevention and Security Association (RLPSA) annual conference—“Transforming Our Industry, Together”—was in evidence as day one of the...