Dennis Healy, Risk Management Consultant at BBSI Ontario

As a business owner, you’d love to have a workplace completely free of accidents and injuries. After all, that would be the ultimate way to control your workers’ compensation costs. But since accidents and injuries are hard to avoid, you need smart strategies to keep those costs under control.

Just remember this – when you add up the medical and pharmaceutical expenses, legal fees, time loss costs, lost productivity, and the many hidden costs, a single workers’ compensation claim can break the bank. More

Julie Leggin, Risk Management Consultant at BBSI Ontario

As a team, organizations can study near misses and accidents in order to prevent future injuries and recurring incidents. This keeps your employees healthy, your production up, and your claims costs down.

Employees need to understand the importance of communicating with a supervisor when an injury, illness, or near miss incident occurs. More

Often times, as business owners, you may feel you have little to no control over your workers’ compensation cost. This is not the case. BBSI is here to help. Republic Capital has some great advice on how to keep your claims costs down. We’ve added a couple of points of our own and would love to help you make them happen. Implementing these strategies will help you control your workers’ compensation costs and run a more profitable business. More

By Jerry Paumier, Risk Management Consultant at BBSI Ontario

Dealing with our aging workforce is definitely a challenge. However, we can take advantage of this mounting tide if we take a little time to examine what this means to the business community. As BBSI continues to grow and partner with a diverse base of business types, it is clear for us to see that one size does not fit all! How a manufacturer handles an aging workforce can be vastly different from a construction company or a medical office. Regardless of your business type, BBSI is here to help you find a path to utilizing your workforce to its full potential. There is a lot of wisdom that is yet to be tapped with your aging workers. The following article will help get you thinking about how you can utilize the years of talent that may already be present in your facility or in your next job applicant. More

Joe Rodriguez, Risk Management Consultant at BBSI Ontario

Do you have a Risk Management Consultant? If you do, do you want to see your Risk Management Consultant once a year when they are dropping off a safety incentive check? Do you only think of them when an injury occurs? Do you think they are good for the occasional safety meeting and helping with the occasional accident investigation? Have you given any thought on how you can get more value from your Risk Management Consultant? Have you given any thought in regards to how your Risk Management Consultant and Safety Program can help bring you business? In your line of business, do you have to market your company to get new contracts? More