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The Center for Disease Control is expediting COVID-19 testing to identify infected individuals, quarantine them and attempt to determine the origin of their contamination. Increased testing will likely result in increased numbers of confirmed cases.

Providing adequate medical care to the inmate population is challenging to say the least, which has led to many states contracting out their jail healthcare to private companies.

Make sure you have the right people on the project team. Integrating predictive models into a business process is really an exercise in change management. Implementing change is a team sport.

Currently, 24 states and the District of Columbia have legalized medical marijuana in some form and four states and the District of Columbia have legalized the use of recreational marijuana. However, due to these changes in legislation in many states, employers are left feeling hazy.

The mean – median argument impacts on almost everything we look at in disability.

Savvy risk managers consider their employees (such as deputies, firefighters and school bus drivers) industrial athletes, investing in strength training, setting expectations with medical providers and preparing for unavoidable injuries by setting protocol for prompt treatment and recovery.

An ERM program can demonstrate value right away by broadening the conversations about risk. Beyond operational or insurable risks, ERM identifies risks and opportunities in various areas such as reputational risk, strategic risk, compliance, workforce and safety risks.

The diversity issue or incident (sometimes it is one “moment of truth”) is defined as a behavior, an action, or a series of behaviors (a pathology or trend) that one party (the target) feels or concludes based on the initiator’s behavior(s). The target may interpret the initiator’s behavior(s) as wrong, inappropriate, disrespectful, discriminatory or illegal.

For risk management professionals concerned about property risk exposures, an up-to-date, accurate SOV is critical.