Loss Control

SEC engages employees at all levels of our clients’ organizations, which greatly improves the potential for safety success. Our unique safety engineering program is designed to empower our clients to manage their risks and loss exposures by providing both the structure and tools of a formal risk control approach. Our analysis, inspection, and evaluation methodology is designed to identify and assess the impact of loss exposures and risks of individual departments or through a client’s organization. The analysis and evaluation process helps prioritize those areas which we feel can provide the most economic benefit from further loss control activities. Audits and surveys may also be used on an ongoing basis to monitor the effectiveness of risk control or safety programs currently in place. We understand that employees need to be helped to recognize what is at stake for themselves, their families, their co-workers and their employers, and how to make the right choices when it comes to working safely. Our safety engineers use a proven process and methodology in their work. Results are achieved by:

• Performing a loss analysis based on information from our underwriting division
• Explaining the results of the loss analysis to client management
• Implementing management-driven programs to establish commitment to safety
• Use project-driven initiatives to form safety committees and direct the programs
• Work through safety committees to schedule training, develop programs, and promote safety awareness
• Address federal, state, and local issues through our compliance-driven programs
• Evaluate status of clients' attitudes, safety programs, and losses

We work with our clients as partners and consider them a part of our team. This team approach is the most successful method of assuring the success of the program, which consists of the following elements:

Safety Awareness

We teach clients techniques to observe their own safety attitudes, thinking, and behaviors with regard to safety. We help people learn how to identify and heed early warning signs which could lead to an accident, failure or lawsuit. Attitude change toward safety concerns must precede behavior change.

Modifying At-Risk Behavior

We provide training to induce behavior change in employees, which results in a safer overall environment and self-monitoring ability among the staff of an organization.

Personal Responsibility

Through specialized training and self-monitoring techniques, we increase the level of personal ownership and responsibility for safety. This is a key to influencing safe individual actions.