Resources
Destinations Unknown: How to Create Travel and Transport Policies That Balance Safety and Flexibility
By Melanie Lockwood Herman If you haven’t updated your travel and transportation policies lately, they may be out of sync with your current reality. This article explores a pragmatic approach to creating new or updated travel and transport policies that will help you get out in the community where your mission comes to life. Make … Continued
Transport Technology for Nonprofits: Maximize Benefit, Address Potential Harm
By Rachel Sams If your nonprofit transports the people you serve, it’s time to step up your knowledge of technology. The array of tools marketed to help organizations transport people safely and efficiently exploded in recent years. Options range from telematics to vehicle sensors, cameras, interactive dashboards, and autonomous technologies such as parking assistance. Advances … Continued
We’ll Get There Together: Risk and Reward in Nonprofit Transportation and Travel
By Rachel Sams I recently took my first post-COVID business trip for NRMC, from my home in Albuquerque to San Francisco. NRMC Executive Director Melanie Lockwood Herman and I both found that our airline tickets cost at least 30% more than we might have expected a few years ago. I chose to spend an extra … Continued
Travel Risk: How Your Nonprofit Can Safely Navigate the Return to Travel
As business travel slowly returns, make sure your nonprofit is ready. Learn the latest tips to evaluate the risks and benefits of travel and navigate health and security issues wherever your team is headed.
Five Low-Cost Ways to Inspire Driver Safety
The best way to avoid risk related to vehicle and driver safety is to avoid ever driving people and property to fulfill your mission! Yet that option is fantasy, rather than feasible, for nonprofits with U.S. and international operations. Most organizations believe in driver safety but expecting volunteer and staff drivers to memorize a voluminous … Continued
Driven to Distraction – Managing Risk on the Road
Talking on your mobile phone is not the only form of distracted driving. Join us to learn about what behavior distracts the driver and myths and tips for managing distracted driving at your nonprofit.
Get All Defensive: A Crash Course To Reduce Distracted Driving
Assuming you commute by car, how much behind the wheel bad behavior do you see in the course of a week? The low hanging rotten fruit is distracted driving from use of personal electronic devices (PEDs) for navigation, tunes, talk, or texting. How many incidents do you see involving corporate vehicles with identifying brands proudly … Continued
Salient Safety Resources
December 1, 2017 Explore this RISK eNewsletter focused on workplace safety. Whiteboard Wisdom Videos on Workplace Safety The NRMC team recently collaborated with Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.’s Nonprofit Practice to develop a series of Whiteboard Wisdom videos on various workplace safety and risk topics. Watch the Whiteboard Wisdom videos focused on workplace safety: Workplace … Continued
Avoid Distracted Driving: Don’t Get Teary and Put Down Siri
This article is an excerpt from The Transportation Issue of our newsletter, Risk Management Essentials. Whether it is sending a quick text or recalling a very emotional memory or event, distracted driving is incredibly commonplace on roads throughout the United States and abroad. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) describes three primary varieties … Continued
Road Warrior Risk Reminders
By Emily Stumhofer “And when it’s time for leavin’, I hope you’ll understand… that I was born a ramblin’ man.” – “Ramblin’ Man,” Allman Brothers Band Summertime is filled with vacations, excursions and road trips of varying lengths. Some of us venture out for personal reasons, while others plan trips for the clients and consumers … Continued
Managing Transportation Risk in a Nonprofit
Whether your nonprofit owns a fleet of vehicles or simply requires staff members (or volunteers) to use their own cars for organization activities, you’ve got transportation risk. This Webinar explores a number of key topics within the field of transportation risk management, including vehicle safety, driver screening and supervision, maintenance and hot topics” in transportation. … Continued
Adopt a Total Ban on Personal Electronic Device Use While Driving
January 26, 2016 By Melanie Lockwood Herman Since we began offering free RISK HELP to our Affiliate Members in 2012, we have answered a wide array of risk questions–some highly unusual. Last week we received this quirky question from two incredibly different member organizations: should we adopt a complete ban on the use of personal … Continued
Insurance for Volunteer Programs
The following article is excerpted from Chapter 9 of No Surprises: Harmonizing Risk & Reward in Volunteer Management, 3rd Edition. Claims Against the Volunteer Fear of incurring personal liability for volunteer service isn’t uncommon among the estimated 90 million Americans who perform volunteer service each year. Volunteer board members may be targeted in suits alleging … Continued