Security has always been a challenge for retail stores, and now more than ever. Crime rates continue to soar as the police take reduced action to solve and investigate retail crimes. Surveys have revealed an increase of six per cent in the cost of retail crimes over the last year. This should give all retail […]
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5 Essential Tips to Ensure the Safety of Your SMB
In order to make your business flourish, you must adapt to the latest technology. However, even with the infinite benefits of the internet, there is always the risk of security. Approximately every year due to cyber-attacks, the world’s economy faces a loss of almost $445 billion. As SMBs generally use cloud technology, they are more […]
3 Keys to Safe, Efficient Materials Storage and Inventory Management
Improper storage of materials had deadly consequences for one worker when an explosion rocked a construction site off U.S. 280 in Harpersville, Alabama. Christopher Anderson of Mississippi was killed when he opened a storage container containing flammable materials while installing natural gas lines. Four other workers were injured, passing vehicles and a nearby road were […]
5 Negative (and Expensive!) Ways Health & Safety Issues Can Impact Your Business
Health and safety is not something that should be taken lightly. As an employer it’s your responsibility to maintain the working environment to ensure the wellbeing of your employees. Here are just a few ways in which bad health and safety policies can impact your business. Low productivity Health and safety regulations are there to […]
7 Essential Crime Prevention Tips for Your Brick and Mortar Store
As much as we’d like to think bad things don’t happen to good people (and their businesses), that’s simply not the way the world works. Crime strikes both online businesses and brick-and-mortar establishments every day—small and large. Actually, it happens to small businesses more often than you’d think. About 24% of small business owners in […]
5 Steps You Must Take to Ensure Your Employees’ Safety
As an employer, you have an obligation to your staff and employees to ensure their safety whilst they are at work. There are certain things that are out of your hands and are the responsibility of the individual but for the most part you have a duty of care towards anyone you employ. There are […]
10 Best Apps to Make Driving Safer, Easier, and More Fun
If you’re like most small business owners or entrepreneurs, you do a lot more driving than average. If you are not using an app to make your driving safer, easier, or even more fun, then you are missing out on some of the greatest conveniences modern technology has awarded today’s drivers. Planning your journey, finding […]
5 Safety Must-Haves for Small Business Owners
Small business owners have a lot to think about: keeping investors happy, establishing a solid business plan, onboarding new employees, and more. With so much going on, security may not seem like the biggest priority. Whether you have an office building or you work from home, however, theft and vandalism can be devastating for a […]
Principles of Workplace Safety to Live By
A lot of managers have an antagonistic relationship with workplace safety guidelines. It’s not their fault, certainly; when rules and regulations are handed down like commandments from on high, it can be hard to respect them and easy to get annoyed. However, the reality of the situation is more complicated. Workplace safety guidelines exist not […]
5 Safety Issues Caused 65 Percent of Workplace Injuries
Are you a betting person? Whether or not you play the lottery or hit Vegas on occasion, you should know what the odds are for any of your employees to get injured on the job and take all the smart steps you can to prevent those injuries. Counting up workplace injuries reveals these five heavy hitters […]
