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Remember opioids? They’ve been overshadowed recently by Covid-19, but the CDC found that opioids were involved in 46,802 overdose deaths in 2018 – a very slight improvement over 2017’s 47,600 deaths.

Truth is, we have begun to make genuine progress on the opioid front.  Some states have drawn legislation or regulations that better control physicians’ freedom to prescribe.

Over the last two years, both COSO and ISO have issued revised versions of their ERM Framework and Standard, respectively.

There’s no question that an effective loss control effort is an essential step in the risk management process. All too often, the risk pool management attempts to launch loss control & safety programs before substantially defining the “why”… in other words, knowing the mission of the effort, and fully understanding the business philosophy behind that mission.

What is a “toxic person,” and if left to his/her own devices how do they create a “toxic” workplace? Most importantly, how does this toxicity affect employee engagement?

While we like to believe that we manage risk and make decisions based on cold, rational processes, a lot of psychological research suggests otherwise.