Podcasts & Blogs

Featuring emerging issues impacting the public risk management community, listen and read these resources to remain cognizant of best practices in the profession!
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Keys to Success: Performance Indicators for Pools

Defining key performance indicators (KPIs) is both art and science, and don’t always come easily, but the right KPIs will help you measure and report on success to your board and stakeholders, as well as signaling when it’s time to make changes.

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Unforced Errors: Cognitive Psychology for Risk Managers

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

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Medical Treatment & Costs Associated with COVID-19

Learn the medical treatment and costs associated with COVID-19.

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What Risk Managers Should Consider When Employing Tactical Medical Support in SWAT Operations

In the mid-1960s, major police departments around the U.S. began employing Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams: heavily armed, specially trained officers who can act swiftly and decisively in volatile situations. Although the exact figure is unknown, it’s safe to say that today a majority of municipalities use SWAT teams.

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Keeping Up with First Responder Presumption Laws

Now, more than ever, the world is examining how companies treat their employees in times of crisis. By providing your employees with a process and plan to address COVID-19 and possible exposures, you’re caring for both your organization and your workforce.

Here’s how:

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Practicing Mindfulness to Enhance Resiliency

Mindfulness had been described to me as learning how to pay attention in the present moment without judgment. I thought this would help me calm what were, at times, racing thoughts and seemingly insurmountable priorities competing for my attention. I committed to mastering mindfulness in my personal life so that I could apply it to everyday living and what had become my new normal.

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Water Damage Can be an Unmitigated Disaster

Evidence of water damage may be immediately visible as ponding, staining or even partial collapse of building materials. Typically these issues receive an immediate response, hopefully by a qualified water mitigation company who can immediately assess both the category (how dirty is the water?) and class (how much property is damaged?) of the water damage.

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Q&A with Public Risk Managers Responding to COVID-19

Now, more than ever, the world is examining how companies treat their employees in times of crisis. By providing your employees with a process and plan to address COVID-19 and possible exposures, you’re caring for both your organization and your workforce.

Here’s how:

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Artificial Intelligence Won’t Solely Protect Against Risk on the Road

Today we have semi-intelligent systems that can “see” but cannot replicate all human sensory risk inputs, limiting their ability to mitigate road risk.

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