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First responders serve as the frontline managers of risk and safety in the public sector, responding in real time to worst-case scenarios across our communities 24 hours per day, every day of the year.

The trees are bare. Mother Nature’s fury has started for winter. The clocks have been changed and with the additional hours of darkness, temperatures are now settling below freezing at night. As winter begins its annual visit, this is the time to minimize the opportunities for conditions leading to freezing pipes and their subsequent rupture, damage and disruption.

Risk teams are no strangers to the nuanced threat of data breaches and system compromises. Yet an emerging peril is making breach risk management even more complicated.

Without cohesion between risk management and safety teams, organizations miss out on a single source of truth that enables fully informed risk management decision-making for all parties.

There is growing evidence suggesting inexpensive and low-tech efforts by employers to encourage better sleep habits and general fitness result in self-reported improvements in sleep-related outcomes, which is associated with reduced absenteeism and better overall quality of life.